I am working on the family history with my cousin in America and she has sent me information collated by her father Gordon Taylor(Joseph's nephew) and I understand that Joseph worked in munitions during World War 1. His place of work was Chance Brothers Engineering Company. Looking on the internet as far as I can tell they specialized in optical glasses and supplied the field glasses. Does anyone know whether they also did munitions?
Gordon also says he was a Bach engine fitter for 21 years, does anyone know what this is and whether it could be connected to the war work.
The time span quoted must be incorrect as he was working in his shop in the 1911 census, he married in 1917 and his occupation was engine fitter then but he moved to Blackpool at the beginning of 1928 and became a painter and decorator.