Note: Billy worked as a Charge hand on the I.C.I. Wharf at Billingham Reach had part of one foot missing (right?) this had happened when he worked in the steel works The family at one time lived in a street of Gilkes Street nearly opposite Middlesbrough swimming baths His great nephew Keith Foreman actually worked under him (as a messenger boy) in 1952/3 at Billingham Reach wharf. He remembers being shown how to operate the overhead gantry crane (but not allowed to touch) also the steam powered rail crane which he could touch A man who was known as Benjamin William in the 1901 census, Billy at work and to his friends but family say he was called Robert Benjamin William
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