Nails, rails and props : the stone's story /Valerie Preston-Dunlop

"Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a scholar, author and lecturer in the performing arts, and was a Consultant and is an Honorary Fellow at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London. She has written many books in a professional capacity, but is now focusing on her family history. This is the third book in that series: the first two are 'Nancy's Story' and ' The Dunlops of Church Farm'. Her family has strong links with south-east London, and she lives in Blackheath. In this book, she writes about an important local company, J. Stone & Co, in which members of her father's family played leading roles. From humble beginnings making nails and rivets for local shipbuilders, it expanded to cater for the needs of the growing railway industry, used its expertise in metal casting to make a wide range of products - both low-tech and high-tech - that sold around the world, and became a specialist in ships' propellors, as the foremost provider of propellors to the British Navy as well as a supplier to every major steamship line."--Provided by the publisher.