Moss Pit. William Moss & Son were builder

Builder

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s, railway contractors

Independent contractor

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 and coal

Coal

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 merchants in Stafford

Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies approximately north of Wolverhampton and south of Stoke-on-Trent, adjacent to the M6 motorway Junction 13 to Junction 14...

 from 1855 to 1884 when William Moss was killed at his sand and gravel pit now called Moss Pit. William Moss & Son built many railway lines around the Midlands including the Queensville curve in Stafford. Around 1916 to 1918 William's grandson Percy George Shaw Moss was an Alderman

Alderman

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of the Borough of Stafford.

External links

• http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ MOSS, STAFFORD, RAILWAY BUILDERS.
• http://www.britains-smallwars/cyprus/military police/John Moss-Norbury. Stafford, England 1881 Census "William Moss, railway contractor, Wolverhampton Road, Stafford".