Puzzle 8
 

Here is a locally important memorial. The colour might be a give away, sort of.
There are four people buried here, but only one of them need concern us at the moment.
Hundreds of people attended the interment.
Whose grave is it?

The right name will win you...

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I've not been up there but I've been told it might be Robert Wigglesworth the first curator of Accrington Museum.

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Sadly not, the occupant might be considered a tad more important than the estimable Mr Wigglesworth.

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Ok second guess is the first mayor of Accrington?

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John Emanuel Lightfoot?

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Was he not buried in the graveyard of Union Street Chapel?

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Not anymore in 1964 they moved the remains of 780 bodies upto Accrington Cemetery.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=3124

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Without wanting to sound morbid or ghoulish, do you know if they were they reburied separately, or in a mass grave?

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It's Frederick Steiner who was a factory owner amongst other things, so I presume that's why there was a lot of people attending his funeral.
Thanks to my mum who went to Accrington Cemetry for me, show me the money or Ackers Bob.

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Frederick (or Friedrich) Steiner. Letters patent from Queen Victoria under the Great Seal respecting an invention 'for a new manufacture of a certain colouring matter commonly called Garancine', granted 22 August 1843. Steiner's address is given as Hyndburn Cottage, near Accrington, Lancashire.

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Is this why we have Steiner Street?

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Correct!

Bagpuss's mum got it exactly right. Well done!

Frederick Steiner who died in 1869 was responsible for the development of Church Bank Works, the site now occupied by Express Gifts. He made a massive amount of money and purchased Hyndburn House from the Peel family. Many of the streets around the Hyndburn Park area are named after Steiner family members. Lina Street, Emma Street, Tremellon Street (named after his Solicitor). Countess Street was named for his younger daughter who married into the French aristocracy and became the Comtesse de Jaucourt. Hartmann Street was named after his eldest daughter who became a mistress of Edward VII.

Steiner developed a unique way of printing cloth with Turkey Red dye using bleaching as part of the process. At it's height the company he founded was printing 39,500 miles of fabric a year.

I am intrigued by the 1843 patent for garancine, which was originally developed by the French chemist Hubert and used to dye the cloth for French army uniform trousers. F. A. Gatty was also involved in developing the use of garancine and supplied the British army.

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Accrington has a fascinating amount of history. We should have an episode of "Local Heroes" based around here.

How old was he when he died, do you know? I'm off to see if I can find out more about him. My late uncle would have known something about the bleach/dying process as that was his line.

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According to my notes Frederick Steiner was born in 1788 and died in November 1869 aged 82.

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I just found out he was a friend of John Mercer of Clayton le Moors and was photographed by him. Experimenting in photography was one of Mr. Mercer's hobbies when he wasn't inventing mercerisation.

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I dimly recall that John Mercer was also experimenting with colour photography.

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I'm only aware of his "colour" photographs which were more like black and white photographs printed on coloured paper but perhaps that was how he started his colour experiments. Somewhere I have a couple of examples, but finding them is a different matter. :D

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Oooo! Find em Willow, Find em. I would love to see them, please.

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I shall do my best - but bear in mind I still haven't found that flippin poem about the Coppice!

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You can view J.Mercer's photos here :-
http://www.lancashirepioneers.com/mercer/photo.asp

Hope that helps

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