Engineer Records - ancestry

[kiterunner]

IMechE membership records 1870 - 1930 (mechanical engineers):
UK Mechanical Engineer Records 1870-1930 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3149)

and ICE membership records 1820 - 1930 (civil engineers):
UK Civil Engineer Records 1820-1930 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3585)

There are also a few hundred civil engineer photographs:
Civil Engineer Photographs (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3777)

[ElizabethHerts]

Many thanks, Kate. My grandfather was top of the search results.

[ElizabethHerts]

Oh wow! One page lists his education - schools, training, career to date. I didn' t have any of these details (1929).

[Merry]

Wow, that's good, Elizabeth!

I have just seen the papers for my great-great uncle, Henry Nathan Maynard, in the ICE records. The Institution wanted to charge me a massive sum about ten years ago to post copies to me. Patience is a virtue! lol

[ElizabethHerts]

Isn't it exciting, Merry! I have three double pages, mostly in my grandfather's own writing. He was born in 1891 and it accounts for his time from 1900 to 1928 (8 years after my father's birth).

I now know that he was actually living and working in Glasgow when my father was born - I wondered whether they were just visiting my grandmother's parents.

I knew they moved around a fair bit. In 1928 he was working at the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

[Merry]

he sounds busy, Elizabeth!

I hadn't previously known that Henry N Maynard was involved in the design and build of the 5,790' Solway Viaduct in the 1860s. I was just reading some more about it and enjoyed this comment regarding it being dismantled:

Salvage crews arrived to demolish it in 1934, much to the annoyance of some folk on the Scottish side who used it to cross into England where alcohol was available on Sundays.

lol Were they risking their lives for the alcohol? Were they at even more risk on the homeward journey???!!! The viaduct had been in very bad repair for some years and the water must have bee freezing!

[Phoenix]

Another twenty years, and I might see my dad's records!

I can remember as a child being soundly told off because I said he was a mechanic, rather than an engineer:D

[ElizabethHerts]

Phoenix, can you request them?

I'm awaiting a reply from the Royal Veterinary College for details of my parents' education etc. I have had a preliminary reply, but the person who will deal with the query is on holiday.

It's quite a coincidence that both my grandathers worked for the Air Ministry at some stage (my maternal grandfather after being invalided out of the Royal Navy where he was an engineer and my paternal grandfather as an aeronautical engineer).

My paternal grandfather whose papers I found here worked in the following places: Manchester, Glasgow, London, Farnborough, Coventry and the Isle of Wight. There may be other places I'm not aware of! I know my father lived on the Isle of Wight and was at grammar school in Coventry.