Unfortunately we don’t know much more than this is my great grandfather, William Bertie Curtis standing beside a triple expansion steam engine.

William Bertie Curtis

The engine was made at A G Mumford Culver Street works in Colchester, where my grandfather was an engineer for some of his career.

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    1. so very fortunate. It must have been for an occasion if only I knew what. I really must spend some time in Colchester in the records office and see what I can find out

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    1. Thank you so much. He’s one of the most interesting in my direct line. In the very early stages of his career he worked in Canada, the family tale was that he was working on the Canadian Pacific railway. However no evidence of that discovered yet!

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