Quote Originally Posted by snappel View Post
Really? The machinery shown there in the first two pictures are presses. The first is a hydraulic one, and the second is a set of screw presses. These are all in the south warehouse. On the ground floor of the Tobacco Warehouse are the remains of another set of screw presses.

If your grandfather was a 'pressman', then I'm guessing he would have operated this equipment. Tobacco was stored in 'hogshead' containers, and the lids had to be pressed on. Interestingly the Tobacco warehouse was designed around the dimensions of the hogsheads, and this accounts for the low ceilings - something which will provide an interesting challenge for the architects!



I don't suppose your grandfather is still alive, or left any memoirs did he? I've been having very little luck finding accounts from people who worked in the warehouses.

Cheers Snappel

can i copy the pics to my computer please.

It was my great Grandfather who worked there as a Pressman. he also worked as a Oil Pressman but ive not found out where.

He is long gone Snappel, Germans got him in WW1, 1917

but here he is in Uniform.