Background
Shacklock was born in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England and served his apprenticeship in several foundries at Nottingham and Derby. Unsatisfied with the opportunities available to him in England, Henry Shacklock emigrated to New Zealand and arrived in Port Chalmers aboard the Bombay on the 9 September 1862. Shacklock first gained a job cutting scrub on the Otago Peninsula before his fiancée Elizabeth Bradley came to join him in New Zealand. He spent a period of his life living in Oamaru before returning to Dunedin and settling on an adjoining section on Grosvenor Street and Park Terrace. He eventually set up his own foundry on Princes Street in January 1872.
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