George Henry William Cashmore acquired a patent for an improvement to the Lewis gun magazine. Submitted in 1918 and patented in 1919.
Cashmore and Malcolm Hankey set up a foundry in Balham, that worked with the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts. Cashmore dropped the G. from his name and Hankey left the business in 1911. H. W. Cashmore and Company had a showroom and studio at 96 Victoria Street, Westminster.
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Our colleague, Andrew Behan, states that George Henry William Cashmore was born on 28 October 1881 at Bearwood Road, Smethwick, Staffordshire (later Worcestershire and now West Midlands), the eldest of the six children of John Cashmore (1859-1933) and Hannah Cashmore née Vaughan (1861-1919). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1881 in the King's Norton Registration District, Worcestershire.
His five siblings were: Lawrence Arnold Vaughan Cashmore (b.1883); Amplias Gertrude Cashmore (1884-1964); Amy Beatrice Cashmore (1886-1969); Elsie Cashmore (1888-1966) and Olive Mary Cashmore (1900-1989).
In the 1891 census he is shown as aged 9 years and a scholar, living in a house called Woodside in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, together with his parents and two of his siblings: Lawrence Arnold Vaughan Cashmore and Elsie Cashmore, together with a female general domestic servant and a stable boy. His father was described as a market gardener.
When the 1901 census was undertaken he was shown as aged 19 years and a commercial clerk residing at 84 Sycamore Road, Bromsgrove, with his parents and his five siblings: Lawrence Arnold Vaughan Cashmore - also a commercial Clerk; Amplias Gertrude Cashmore; Amy Beatrice Cashmore - a millinery apprentice; Elsie Cashmore and Olive Mary Cashmore, together with a housemaid. His father was listed as a landlord.
On 5 October 1908 he married Gertrude Grove (1883-1967) at the Parish Church in Bromsgrove. They had two children: Olive Gertrude Cashmore (1910-1972) who was born on 7 October 1910 and Enid May Vaughan (1914-1996) who was born on 15 June 1914.
Electoral registers from 1908 to 1910 show him listed as ratepayer occupying offices at 82 Victoria Street, Westminster, London and also in 1910 as occupying a dwelling house in Station Road, Bromsgrove.
When he completed his 1911 census return form he described himself aged 29 years and a commercial traveller (art metal) working on his own account, living in a seven roomed property at 24 Wontner Road, Balham, London, with his wife and two brothers-in-law: John Charles Grove, aged 23 years - a clerk, electrical engineering worker and Joseph Edmund Grove, aged 20 years - a clerk, art metal worker.
Telephone directories in 1914 have two entries: 'Cashmore H. W. & Co., Architectural, Decorative Craftsmen, 96 Victoria St, SW, Victoria 5917' and 'Cashmore H. W. & Co., Foundries and Works, 94b High Road Blhm, Battersea 415'.
Electoral registers from 1912 to 1918 list him at 24 Wontner Road, London, SW12 and in 1918 him and his wife at 94B Balham High Road, London, SW12. In 1920 and 1921 they are registered at 56 Broderick Road, London, SW17 and from 1923 at 44 Streathbourne Road, London, SW17.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register he is shown as being born on 28 October 1881 and a manufacturer metal work employer, living at 44 Streathbourne Road, Tooting, London, with his wife and their two daughters. Olive Gertrude Cashmore was listed as secretarial (manufacturing business) and an Air Raid Precautions volunteer with Wandsworth Borough Council, whilst her sister Enid May Vaughan was described as clerical and costing (manufacturing business) and also an Air Raid Precautions volunteer with Wandsworth Borough Council.
Electoral registers in 1949 list him and his wife at 18 Balham Hill, Balham and from 1946 to 1955 at 18 Ullathorne Road, London, SW16.
Telephone directories in 1955 listed him at 18 All Saints Road, Sutton, Surrey (now Greater London).
His death was registered as aged 73 years in the 1st quarter of 1955 in the Surrey Mid-Eastern Registration District. Probate records confirm that his address had been 18 All Saints Road, Sutton and that he died on 25 March 1955. Probate was granted on 4 June 1955 to his widow and his effects totalled £20,285-17s-8d.
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