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Brick and tile works and steam saw mills.

The last dated receipt is from 1927.

Carpenter operating in Cambridge c. 1834

Thomas Bamford was the son of Thomas Bamford a malster from Uttoxeter in Stafford County and apprenticed to Charles Adam on 18 August 1703. Bamford and his wife Judith had three sons and two daughters. Bamford entered two marks on 5 January 1720, a third on 27 June 1720, and a fourth on 18 July 1739. Bamford, like his master Adam, was known to be a '[s]pecialist castermaker' and later this designation would also be given to Bamford's apprentice Samuel Wood. This bibliographic information is available in Grimwade's London Goldsmiths on p. 429 and his marks are visible on p. 20 (5 January 1720, two marks), p. 192 (27 June 1720) and p.194 (18 July 1739).

Benjamin Berry Thelin, age 75, died on November 11, 2005. He was preceded in death by parents, the Reverend Canon Harold and Sue B. Thelin, of San Antonio, Texas. He was born on September 5, 1930, in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Kent School, Kent, Connecticut in 1949, and graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1953. He married Patricia Owen Feid on June 11, 1957. Benjamin Thelin was an Air Force pilot, separating to fly with Pan-American Grace Airways. After serving in Florida and South America, Benjamin transitioned into financial services. Working first with Crocker Bank in California, he joined Bank of America and served in the Foreign Bank Division, in Lima, Peru, Okinawa, Japan, and Republic of Singapore. Benjamin left to serve as Chief Financial Officer of Enen and Associates. Upon returning to the United States, he joined First National Bank in Reno, Nevada, while residing at Incline Village, Lake Tahoe. Ben continued to use his financial background assisting colleagues in commercial real estate development projects. Upon retiring to San Antonio, Texas, Benjamin joined St. Francis Academy for Girls as a teacher of English and Mathematics. Benjamin established an International Baccalaureate program for Bilingual Education at St. Francis, the first of its kind in San Antonio. The program was funded through private donations from Benjamin's prep and college schools. When St. Francis Academy closed, Benjamin entered full retirement by mentoring local San Antonio business leaders for bilingual and business development. Benjamin derived great pleasure watching his former students succeed in their business efforts. During these years Benjamin continued flying when possible, establishing a firm habit of gliding and parachuting and doing so until the final weeks of his life. Benjamin supported the Episcopal Church, teaching Bethel courses at St. Luke's, and as an active parishioner at St. Francis Episcopal. Benjamin graduated from Kent School Cum Laude, receiving the Columbia Cup in recognition of his all round contribution to the school and student body. Neither Kent nor Union could have asked for a more ardent supporter and living example of the schools purposes.