John I

Stockport Viaduct

John Tomkinson and his life was the incentive I had to start this website, having not realised his importance until after I had retired. He is a strange mixture of the known and unknown, the entrepreneur and the naïve. Was he involved with the Foster era and its brushes with morality? He erected a significant monument to his foreman stonemason which survives to this day. He was a deacon in the Unitarian Church, a builder of chapels, a modest but not self effacing man.
So I have tried to elicit some facts as well as recording what I can about the family history in construction.

Memorial to John Day at Liverpool Cathedral

The laying of the foundation stone for the opening
of Birkenhead Docks 1845

Hale Church after a complete rebuild following an arson attack. c 1979

Construction of the Plough Inn Runcorn c 1980

Stands for a Royal visit in 1913 on the site of Premier Buildings on the corner of Church Street and Hanover Street. Now a bank