Home of Matthias Saul, top of King Street, Lancaster

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265949

Reference identifier

NLA20140926013

Title

Home of Matthias Saul, top of King Street, Lancaster

Place

Lancaster

General notes

Matthias Saul born Stodday 1787, his father a miller. was a joiner and builder. He designed many items, an improved mangle, the design for a shower bath 1827, a revolving shop window, an improved design for a toll gate mechanism at Scotforth toll gate, a garden gate latch, a portable seat for the public courts, Shire Hall and many horticultural aids, etc.
He designed his own Monument in the Lancaster Far Moor Cemetery, dying in 1860.

Volume 6 of the Mechanics Magazine has a letter from a Matthias Saul of Sulyard Street in Lancaster dated 23 April 1826 which describes his new transplanting machine for removing plants when in flower. It seems that he was actively involved in the world of gardening and horticulture and an online version of the Gardeners Magazine for 1826 mentions him in relation to the Lancaster Gooseberry Society and as the inventor of Inventor of Saul's Fruit-gatherer.
Note the interesting roof decorations (if you zoom right in)

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Sepia

Original image size

7.77 x 8.87

Year of image

c1900

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