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my great grandad was called tozer he came over from ireland with my grandad he was a french polisher who liked a drink and he was the person who frenched polished the first ewbank carpet sweeper: the first ewbank was made from wood that is how it became to be french polished
Pleased to see the Ewbank connection. Richard Walton Kenyon was my great grandfather. See Tiverton museum site for his own account of how he came to amke the Ewbank.
me mam worked there for many years till it closed, i did a short spell myself, had probably the best works canteen. but i never knew the guy came from accrington, very pleased to know that.