Samuel Albert Pickering

• Birth Date           7 December 1863
• Marriage              Ellen, second daughter of William Russell, of Oldham.
• Death date          unknown

The son of Samuel Pickering, of Bury, Samuel Albert Pickering was born at Oldham on 7 December 1863 and was educated at Oldham. He subsequently acted as Assistant Surveyor to the Corporations of Burnley, and Stockton on Tees and the Borough Surveyor at Colne. In 1896 he was appointed Borough Engineer and Surveyor to the Corporation of Oldham and designed and carried out a number of important works in that town including the construction and equipment of the Electrical Tramway scheme, Refuse Destructors, Public Baths, a large boating lake in connection with the Public Park, and Sewage Disposal Works, etc.

Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers; member of the Association of Municipal and County Engineers, London; member of the Sanitary Institute, London, and of the British Fire Prevention Committee, London; Freemason, member of the Clemency Lodge, No. 2341, Oldham.

Residence
1901        86, Waterloo Street, Oldham

Reference    Tracy & Pike. Lancashire at the Opening of the 20th century. Published Brighton 1903 Contemporary Biographies Architects, Engineers, etc.  Page 414