No flies on him!!
Welcome to Summer in Australia. A land of floods (currently), famine and FLIES!!! Today's blog pays homage to a Rookwood inhabitant whose company distributed a powder that helped Aussies cope with those pesky blighters. SAMUEL TAYLOR Samuel was born in April 1813 on the Bethnal Green Road, London, the eldest son of Samuel and Sarah Black (nee Green) and the first of five children. Samuel went into business with his father and his half-brother William Black in their brush manufacturing warehouse at 50 and 51 Church Street London. (William was the eldest son of Sarah and George Black her first husband who died in 1807. She married Samuel Taylor (senior) in 1810 who took on her three young children). Brush manufacturing was an important industry at time and increasingly so into the Victorian age. Brushes were used in brooms, the laundry, by chimney sweeps and mundanely to clean the front step as an example. The business, however, was dissolved in 1839. Samuel (Junior) mar...