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| The image is from http://www.thamesbuttons.com/page1.html The button was found on the Thames foreshore by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker |
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Hi, my name is Brian. I live in North Carolina in the United States. I was recently metal detecting on an and uninhabited Island on the coast called Cape Lookout. I found a button with the word Deptford on it. I’m assuming J Taylor was the Tailor who made it. I’ve been searching the web trying to find more information about this person and came upon your blog. I was wondering if anyone could help me find information on this person. How cool is it that this button made it all the way to North Carolina?
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The image is from http://www.thamesbuttons.com/page1.html
ReplyDeleteThe button was found on the Thames foreshore by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker
Hi, I can’t see that image on the website you mentioned. I looked under T and under other letters just in case.
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning the credit Bill a user of the blog sent me the image. I'm waiting for Brian to send me his image and will post as soon as.
ReplyDeleteI’ve found it under J. I misunderstood last night, I thought the button pic was of Brian’s button. Thanks for your reply.
ReplyDeleteHi, I think you will find that J Taylor was a Button Maker rather than a Tailor. There are many button with different names and towns imprinted. proberly the most famouse was Firmin Birmingham. There are two button making Taylors I can find niether in Deptford but could they be related in some way the first is in Spitifields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/11/maureen-rose-button-maker-x/
ReplyDeleteNot so far from Deptford and the second is in Birmingham the home of Button Making
http://mappingbirmingham.blogspot.com/2019/07/john-taylor-birminghams-first-factory.html
I saw the tag line and my jaw dropped .....sadly not the buttons I'm looking for!
ReplyDeleteMy great grandparents hailed from Deptford. Arthur Button (labourer and my great Grandfather), 68 The Stowage and my grandmother Daisy Sarah Button of the same address. She married (1916) William Mullett, a mariner, whose address at the time was 69 Kurth St but no indication where that was.
The Vicar of Deptford St Nicholas in 1916 was the Revd Arthur Hart. His handwriting was variable at the best of times, but in that Daisy and William married on Christmas Day 1916 other factors may have been at work. It is not '69 Kurth St', but 69 Knott St.
ReplyDeleteKnott Street is one of the previous names of Creekside. Most of the buildings went in the 1930s when the London County Council redeveloped much of the land between Deptford Church Street and Deptford Creek.