Moss Pit. William Moss & Son were builders, railway contractors and coal merchants in

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...

from 1855 to 1884 when William Moss was killed at his sand and gravel pit now called Moss Pit. William Moss & Son built many railway lines around the

Midlands The Midlands (also referred to as Central England) are a part of England that broadly correspond to the Kingdom of Mercia of the Early Middle Ages, bordered by Wales, Northern England and Southern England. The Midlands were important in the Ind ...

including the Queensville curve in Stafford. Around 1916 to 1918 William's grandson Percy George Shaw Moss was an alderman of the Borough of Stafford in the West Midlands.

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* http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ MOSS, STAFFORD, RAILWAY BUILDERS. *http://www.britains-smallwars/cyprus/military police/John Moss-Norbury. Stafford, England 1881 Census "William Moss, railway contractor, Wolverhampton Road, Stafford". Companies based in Stafford {{England-business-bio-stub