Life-events of Thomas Walter Barber

Date

Event

Address

Engineer’s Sketchbook

Civil Engineering Types & Devices

1

21 Feb 1846

Born. Son of Henry and Unity BARBER, formerly PERRETT

46 Ratcliff Highway

2

Educated South Kensington Training School

2

1861-1862

Worked in office of Mr F Campin, Civil Engineer (London)

1

1861

Census

Transcript

St Botolph by Billingsgate

2

1862-1864

Worked with Mr A. W. Tooth, Mechanical Engineer (London)

2

1864-1866

Assistant Engineer at Blaina Iron Works (Mon)

2

1865-1867

Chief Assistant to Mr George Wells, Civil Engineer (Westminster)

2

1867-1871

Chief Assistant to the late Mr P Baly (M.I.C.E), Westminster

1

31 July 1869

Married Sarah DAVIS, of full age, daughter of William Golding DAVIS, Gentleman

2

2 years Inspector of Railway Bridges and plant for Transcaucassian Railway

2

1872-1874

Resident Engineer for Bristol Corporation on erection of public baths and wash houses

2

1875-1880

Assistant to Mr W Riddle, Civil Engineer (London) and Messrs. R Waygood and Co., Mechanical Engineers (Great Dover Street)

1

18 April 1879

Made will. Transcript

9, Middle Market Road, Great Yarmouth

2

1880-1882

Engineer to American Oyster Company constructing extensive oyster grounds and piles at Brightlingsea, Essex

1

1881

Census

Transcript

Park Road, Brightlingsea

2

1883-1889

Works Manager to Messrs Smith and Stevens, Mechanical Engineers, Battersea and to Messrs Attwood and Co, of Ulverston

3

1889

First Edition

Preface (transcript)

2

1890-1894

Proprietor of Hastings Engineering Works and Foundry, Hastings

1

1891

Census

Transcript

“Mayfield”, Godwin Road, Hastings

1

1895

Publication of Repair & Maintenance of Machinery

2

1895 onwards

Private Practice as Civil Engineer, Westminster

3

1897

Second and Third Editions. Third “considerably enlarged”

2

10 Jan 1899

Elected to Membership of Civil Engineers

17 Tothill Street, Westminster

1

1901

Census

Transcript

223, Beckenham Road, Penge, Kent

3

1903

Fourth Edition

3

1906

Fifth Edition “revised & enlarged”

Preface note (transcript)

2

23 May 1906

Grosvenor Mansions, 82 Victoria Street

2

28 June 1906

24, Avenue Road South Norwood

4

1909 & 1910

Designed 3-axle truck for London Trams

2

14 Nov 1911

16, Anerley Hill

2

1915

First Edition (this is the title page of the copy in the library of the Institution of Civil Engineers, which was presented to them by T.W.Barber on the 16^th of February 1915)

Flyleaf

Preface (transcript)

2

23 Mar 1915

15 Versailles Road, Anerley

1

21 Apr 1917

Died

15 Versailles Road, Anerley

Buried in Highgate Cemetary, in family plot
Transcript

3

1918

Sixth Edition

1

18 Oct 1918

Will proved. Gross value of estate
£284 – 18 - 1

2

30 Nov 1918

Chief of Works Inspection, Gun and Shell Factories

Cossipore, Bengal, India

2

12 Jan 1920

Chief Engineer, Indian Ordnance Factories Extensions

6 Esplanade East, Calcutta, India

2

Jan 1922

Bungalow 60, Barrackpore, Bengal, India

3

1924

Second Edition “enlarged”

2

18 Nov 1924

Erased from Roll of Civil Engineers

3

1926

Reprint, Sixth Edition

3

1934

Reprint, Sixth Edition

3

July 1934

Introduction added “describing the real purpose and scope of this book” (n.b. this text from 7^th edition, although dated 1934)

3

1937

Third Edition “revised & enlarged”

3

1938

Reprint: Sixth Edition

3

1940

Seventh Edition

3

1955

Fourth Edition “revised and enlarged by Rolt Hammond”