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Originally Posted by sibi
hello to you all,
While doing the old family tree bit, it turns out my great great great grandfather (William Thomas Sames) was part owner in an iron foundry in Accrington which went bust in 1868. It was called HARPER & SAMES Oswaldtwistle Accrington.
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I don't know if this may anything to do with the noble quest in search of your ancestry, but Sames is a relatively rare name. However, many years ago - I believe the building may still be there - there was a public house on the edge of a notorious part of Blackburn called the Barbary Coast. It's name was Sames's Vaults and I can assure you it was a dark and forbidding place, the clientele being the last dregs of Blackburn (and Ossy's finest few). Some of us did venture in there and lived to tell the story. It is possible that Mr Cashman may have more to say. Anyway, there may be a connection between the ale house and the foundry.