fettler

His mother was a business woman and father a railway fettler.

A large goods shed and fettler's cottage were also constructed.

A fettler is an old craft from the iron and steel industry that grew in the north east of England.

The town grew from a fettler's camp established on Gravesend station with the coming of the railway around 1900.

The other fettler and the ganger escaped uninjured.

He also worked as a fettler on the Aberdare line and later operated a grocery store in Newcastle.

By 1963 the complex also included a signal cabin, single men's quarters (now removed), fettler's quarters, and loading bank.

Located below the Fettler's quarters is the entrance to a small drain, with stone walls and rough timber decking.

Special praise was given to the young fettler, William Nettleton who bravely risked injury to save three chairs.

In a garden bed below the Fettler's Quarters, large white stones set into concrete form the words: Spring Bluff.

"When cool, this glittering tablet is passed to the fettler who files away jagged edges and flattens lumps and bumps."

They move to railway camps at Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains where her drunken father works as a railway fettler.

Many of the pupils who passed through the school were the children of a transient fettler population whose main purpose was the maintenance of the railway line.

Born "illegitimately", Patricia Jean Smith was adopted by railway workers, her mother a station-mistress and her father a fettler.

The Fettler's Quarters is a small rectangular timber structure sheltered by a gabled roof clad in corrugated iron.

Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents station-mistress and a fettler.

Jackson was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, the son of a railway fettler.

William Robert Whitlock, Chief Fettler, Bristol Foundry Company.

At night a campfire crackles near the Fettler's Iron Pot Bistro where you'll find healthy country fare complemented by a comprehensive selection of Australian wines.

He was the son of a farmer, was educated to elementary level at convent schools and from age 14 worked as a fettler for the New South Wales Government Railways.

Skelton was born in Boggabri, New South Wales, ninth child of a railway fettler, educated at Boggabri Public School and brought up as a strict Protestant.

Gert was matched with a giant of a man called Potgieter, a railway fettler from Kaapmuiden who was six foot seven and a half and weighed two hundred and eighty-nine pounds.

After only a brief education he worked in various jobs, mainly in the bush as a roustabout, boundary-rider, railway fettler, fencer, dam-builder, gardener and as a lifelong love - a ballet dancer.

Mabo worked on pearling boats, as a cane cutter, and as a railway fettler before becoming a gardener at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland at the age of 31.

The conservation park protects both a network of mound springs that upwell from the Great Artesian Basin and the "ruins of a fettler's cottage at the old Margaret Rail Siding."