Family Connections

Timothy Hamlin was born at Norton-sub-Hamdon in 1901. He left school at the age of thirteen. In 1914 he became an office boy at the Ham Hill and Doulting Stone Company in Norton. He left the firm after about eighteen months to work for Sparrows of Martock, a firm of iron founders and wheelwrights, where his older brother, Charles, was already employed.

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