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John Line - Timber Merchants

John Line's timber yard on the Knoll

John Line's timber yard was situated on the Knoll next door to George Hine's wheelwrights. The saws were driven by a steam engine. This photo shows John Line and his two sons Bill and Ben.

The Line's are a well-established Sherington family, with a long tradition of being sawyers or carpenters:
        1841 census - 2 family members listed - 1 Sawyer
        1851 census - 15 family members - 3 Sawyers
        1861 census - 22 family members - 6 Sawyers
        1871 census - 22 family members - 5 Sawyers
        1881 census - 34 family members - 8 Sawyers
        1891 census - 33 family members - 6 Sawyers or carpenters
        1901 census - 24 family members - 7 Sawyers or carpenters
        St Laud's Monument Inscriptions - 18 family members - John Line died in 1937.

The business is listed in the 1931 and 1935 Kelly directories as 'John Line' and in the 1939 directory as 'John Line & Sons'.

John Line's timber yard on the Knoll John Line's timber yard on the Knoll John Line's timber yard on the Knoll

The following photo shows a Bill of Sale from Line's Sawmill for supplying a garage to Miss Grace Nursaw in 1931. The garage was constructed by the Line's woodyard from poplar trees cut from the island by Sherington Bridge, then converted at the Church Road premises & erected in School Lane. The Photo below shows the garage in 1981 in the front garden of Laundry Cottage, (Home Lea), in School Lane. The three children in the photo are Victoria Morgan, Matthew Morgan and Martin Feasey.

Bill of sale for a garage from John Line's timber yard on the Knoll Garage at Home Lea (Laundry Cottage) in School Lane supplied by John Line

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