During the late 60's early 70's I used to work at a store called Wilson Tupholmes. They sold eveything from furniture to gents clothing and were located at Pitsmoor,opposite the old Pitsmoor workingmens club.

I worked there as a maintinance person. I worked with a number of people. Chris Goodrich, carpet fitter, Mick Pollard, warehouse, Steve Dunn, Rossann, wages office. These were but a few I can remember.

Did anyone else work there, if so do you know whare abouts of the ones mentioned or can you think of anyone else????

Thanks

jauntyone

During the late 60's early 70's I used to work at a store called Wilson Tupholmes. They sold eveything from furniture to gents clothing and were located at Pitsmoor,opposite the old Pitsmoor workingmens club.

Did anyone else work there????

Thanks

jauntyone


Hello,

A few months back, "Texas" and I had a thread going about Pitsmoor and that part of Pitsmoor Road where Tupholmes business was located. We both remembered it but neither of us worked there.

I thought we would get a good response from people who shopped there or even worked there, but we got nothing.

Hope you have more sucess, because it was an integral part of Pitsmoor life.

Regards

My next door neihbour worked there at that time her name was Janet
hazel

My husband worked their in about the mid 60,s his name is Bob Eccles

I used to shop there in the early 70s,the one at the back of the moor,my Mum had an account for years.

My husband worked their in about the mid 60,s his name is Bob Eccles
Are you related to Paul Eccles.
Our next door neighbour was called Eccles.

We used to buy our furniture from Wilson Tupholme and in the mid 60s remember my mum buying 2 puffes prenounced poof ays.
I still have one of them at my house.

My Grandmother had an account there - must have been around 9 or10 yrs
old when I went along with her - loved the place -used to wander around
looking at books and toys - I think there was cafe in the place as well
and it never seemed to be too busy. Remember Shadows records playing
a lot there as well - did they sell records ?
Must have been early sixties.

Chris

Hi Chris M
Yes they did have a cafe there, it was situated up on the first floor just through the shoe dept.

I can't remember them selling records!!!!

Hi Hazel

Seem to remember a Janet working there, think she worked on first floor.
What was her surname??????

Hi Angelamary

Cant remember anyone there called bob eccles, did he work in the offices??

thanks for the replies

regards

He worked out on the road,door to door selling and debt collector, he had a terrible time, didn,t do the job for long as i remember perhaps 6 months. No relation to a Paul Eccles, sorry

i can remember going there in the very early seventies to buy a chalk easel for my birthday, i remember the toys were downstairs

my wife Susan worked in the office there in 1969 and was there for about 8 months until she had a baby. She worked with Patricia Odale, Kathy and Sheila (can't remeber her surname) and there was Kath, Peggy, Joyce.

Did the Tupholmes live on Firshill Avenue?

I think my brother bought their house.

Happy Days

Someone I know called Ruth Lawrence (married name Smith) worked there in the early 70's. Anyone remember her?

My Auntie Winifred worked there in the 50/60's her surname was Ward. I think she worked in the shoe Dept. selling shoes.

I remember Wilson Tupholme on Pitsmoor Road. My then to be mother-in-law was a customer there, and introduced me to the shop when we got married, it was a good shop, very helpful. some of my furniture was purchased there in my early married years, it was quality stuff and you could pay weekly, something that was frowned on in those days, as the saying used by some older people was if you can't buy it outright you can't afford it. In those days we acquired one thing at a time and payed for it before we bought anything else. a bit different to the young of today.

I never worked there but I remember going in there with my uncle to buy some furniture. This was when I was a kid, probably late fifties? Or am I getting mixed up with another store? It seems so long ago and I don't know if the store was open as far back as the fifties. Anyway, can anyone tell me what the building is used for these days? I know someone is working in there.

Going to buy kids school clothes there and going from dept to dept carrying a slate to have your purchases listed before taking it to the cash office to be added to your account. Thats what they mean by have it on the slate.

I used to shop there in the early 70s,the one at the back of the moor,my Mum had an account for years.

I remember as a kid being dragged round this branch of Tupholmes. My brother used to hide when he heard mum saying that we were going to Tupholmes. Sorry this is no help looking for real info about Tupholmes but the name just brought back a childhood memory.

I think they are now just a money lender.

I had a saturday job here in the early 70s when I was 14. Worked on the menswear dept with two guys (cant remember their names) who used to spend all day reading their newspapers and doing the crosswords. Do remember the cafe there, did lovely hot roast pork butties. Used to earn two quid and get the bus straight into town and spend it down chapel walk on some silly shirt or something equally useless!.

I worked at Wilson Tupholmes about 1964 ,i worked in the Hairdressers as a friday night /saturday girl ,my dad also worked there as a collector in the late 50"s and so did two of my uncles ,crickey it was hard work

im sure my mum worked there in the 70s her name is lesley .

its where you bought things on a slate and them take the slate to the accounts desk for you weekly payment book.

yes my aunty as I recall used to work for them, as a door to door collector back in the mid 70's.

mick pollard is a good friend of mine, do you want me to pass message to him

My nan lived not far from there when i was little so I remember going there with my mum and my nan to get a schoolbag for starting comprehensive school and a new coat. It was a "midi" coat as we called it, mid calf length, really fashionable at the time and just taking over from the mini length clothes!. Was dead proud of it on my first day at school aged 11!. That would have been 1970, I think it might have closed a few years after that.

Wilson Tuphomes was certainly operating as a pay as you go store in 1939. In those days the stairs to the upper levels were steel grating stairs with an open bannister. A collector used to call on Friday evenings to collect the shilling on the pound payment, he always seemed to be OK if you could not pay the full amount so long as you paid something. I seem to recall the first payment was the interest, about 12%pa.
If you owed say £5 on a £20 purchase, payment would still be 20 shillings but you were encouraged to buy something for say another £5 making a new debt of £10 costing only 10 bob a week but paying the interest again on the old £5 debt. I,m sure in this way they had many lifelong customers, plus a rolling incrementing interest payment.

Been a while since someone posted in this thread but only just found this forum.
I used to go to school with Geoffrey Tupholme at Firshill Primary from 1947 to 1950. He was the son of one of the owners. Mum also used to shop there. For what it's worth.
Rod

Wilson Tuphome is still in existance, but people shop from a catalogue now and they have collectors who go round for the weekly payments,

Wilson Tuphome is still in existance, but people shop from a catalogue now and they have collectors who go round for the weekly payments,

Where are they based then?

My Aunt took me there in1954 to buy a watch for my birthday,I didn,t really want a watch because I decided what time I had to be home but I really wanted a superb touring saddle bag for my bike and seeing as I was paying for my bike on the drip feed from Wiggys I could not afford one.I think my Aunt saw the dismay on my face and when we went to the checkout the bag was waiting for me,brilliant,I never forgot my Aunt for that,she is still alive today and she is 92 and we always have a laugh at this she said now you have a watch there is no excuse that you dont have the time to see me.

i bet not many people know that JOHNNY FANTHAM ( sheffield wednesday footballer ) lived next door to wilson tuphome big house on the corner lived there with his mum back in the late 50s

tuphomes are still based at the same place on Pitsmoor road

I got a sheepskin coat from there it cost me £82 a small fortune in those days

What used to be Tupholmes is now a grocery shop, I think