blast furnace operation at Port Kembla in August 1928, and the gradual closure and relocation to Port Kembla of the Hoskins' works at Lithgow, between November 1928 and January 1932. Family Sandford had somewhat complicated family arrangements. He had left two children by a previous marriage in England, but he married Caroline Newey on 3 May 1884 at Goulburn. Caroline was 15 years his junior and herself had a previous marriage. Sandford's first wife was alive in England for at least twenty years after he emigrated. He had three children with Caroline. The children had a privileged upbringing at Eskroy Park, before being sent away to boarding school. In 1895, the two elder children and their mother each had their own horse.The eldest Australian-born child was his daughter, Clarice Adele Sandford (b.1885 d.1977)—a pupil of Julian Ashton—who studied in London and became an artist; she appears to have been a travelling companion and a carer for her parents in their old age. She was an Archibald Prize finalist for the years 1923 and 1937. Despite some interest in her works in the 1990s, as an artist, she is now largely, but not entirely, forgotten. His elder son, William Fitzroy Sandford (b.1886 d.1948)—known throughout his life as Roy William Sandford—became first an assistant manager at Lithgow in charge of the steel furnaces, and later a director and the interstate salesman for the company. After the company failed, he was an importer of American motor cars and local manufacturer of car bodies and car parts, during the 1910s and 1920s. Roy Sandford put this venture—Roy W. Sandford Limited—into voluntary liquidation in late 1929. After that, he was a car dealer. Roy's marriage ended in divorce in 1914, and it seems his later life was troubled. His other Australian-born son, Frederick Esk Sandford, AFC (b. 1890 d.1928)—known as Esk Sandford—an engineering graduate of Sydney University, who survived war service in German New Guinea and in the Royal Naval Air Service, was an officer in the Air Force, when he died after a motor car accident in 1928. Esk was the second husband of pioneering New Zealand driver and aviator, Gladys Sandford. Their marriage was not a success, but Gladys retained his family name after they separated. Esk himself is recognised as a pioneer of aviation in New Zealand, making flights and surviving a crash there, in 1913. The middle names, Fitzroy and Esk,