On the 1911 census my grandfather (William Henry Lyles Hayden) is described as an assayer working in the "Sweep and Bullion" industry.
I have previously been told that he was involved in extracting precious metals from waste and my mother remembered him working in a foundry. Have I got that right?
They lived in Ruckley Avenue Lozells. He doesn`t appear to have enlisted during the First War - possibly because he was working in a reserved industry? Although he was also a Quaker
I have previously been told that he was involved in extracting precious metals from waste and my mother remembered him working in a foundry. Have I got that right?
They lived in Ruckley Avenue Lozells. He doesn`t appear to have enlisted during the First War - possibly because he was working in a reserved industry? Although he was also a Quaker