John Urpeth Rastrick notebook 1851-1855

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John Urpeth Rastrick notebook 1851-1855

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb96-ms179

1 volume (36 pages)

eng,

Senate House Library (University of London)

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Rastrick, John U. (John Urpeth), 1780-1856

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John Urpeth Rastrick was born at Morpeth in Northumberland on 26 January 1780, the son of John Rastrick, an engineer to whom he became articled in 1795. In about 1801, he was working at the Ketley Iron Works in Shropshire and, in or after 1805, he joined in partnership with John Hazledine (soon succeeded by Robert Hazledine) of Bridgenorth, Shropshire. During this time, Rastrick assisted in the construction of the locomotive 'Catch me who Can' for Richard Trevithick in 1808, and in 1814, he took...