John Line’s timber yard was situated on the Knoll next door to George Hine’s wheelwrights. The saws were driven by a steam engine. This photo shows John Line and his two sons Bill and Ben.
The Lines are a well-established Sherington family, with a long tradition of being sawyers or carpenters:
1841 census – 2 family members listed – 1 Sawyer
1851 census – 15 family members – 3 Sawyers
1861 census – 22 family members – 6 Sawyers
1871 census – 22 family members – 5 Sawyers
1881 census – 34 family members – 8 Sawyers
1891 census – 33 family members – 6 Sawyers or carpenters
1901 census – 24 family members – 7 Sawyers or carpenters
St Laud’s Monument Inscriptions – 18 family members – John Line died in 1937.
The business is listed in the 1931 and 1935 Kelly directories as ‘John Line’ and in the 1939 directory as ‘John Line & Sons’.
The following photo shows a Bill of Sale from Line’s Sawmill for supplying a garage to Miss Grace Nursaw in 1931.
The garage was constructed by the Line’s woodyard from poplar trees cut from the island by Sherington Bridge, then converted at the Church Road premises & erected in School Lane. The Photo below shows the garage in 1981 in the front garden of Laundry Cottage, (Home Lea), in School Lane. The three children in the photo are Victoria Morgan, Matthew Morgan and Martin Feasey.
