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Yes, it takes me back as well! The secondhand book stall was that of Frank Woore (1876-1953). It continued in the same name after he died, and it eventually moved to the basement of the Castle Market, still in the same name, until the 1980s. The stall also sold stamps for collectors, and the last owner was Ian Uttley, who later had a stamp shop in the Granby Arcade in Bakewell. Here is a list of Norfolk Market Hall stallholders in the 1954 Kelly's Directory.

Here it is on an old map.

It was in Haymarket, between Dixon Lane and Exchange Street (the site later occupied by Woolworth's, then Wilko). Here is an early 1900s interior view.

Yes, it was a pity to lose this building; it was demolished in 1959. Here it is on a postcard dated 1906, soon after the Haymarket frontage had been rebuilt in 1904-05.

The change in name to Esperanto Place is explained in the book "Street Names of Sheffield" by the late Peter Harvey.

Yes, Norfolk Street extended to the corner of Fitzalan Square where the Elephant Inn was - indicated by the arrow on this old map. The Elephant's address was 2-4 Norfolk Street.

Here is a screenprint with the result of the Probate search. PDF copies of Wills or Grants of Probate are available by online application for £1.50.

Here is an extract from the "1939 Register" which was prepared on the outbreak of war. The G.R.O. deaths index shows that Donald Wellwood Cowan died in Barnsley in Jan-Mar 2005, and the Probate index gives the date of death as 23 January, probate being granted at Leeds on 9 March (he seems to have died intestate).

I used to live next door to a man with a Vincent Black Shadow - I was jealous! My dad also had a Triumph with a sidecar - it was a 650cc. Triumph Thunderbird and Swallow Harvard sidecar. But with five of us on board it didn't lift up on bends! Here we are at Skegness in 1951- I am the 3 year-old kid just peeping out of the sidecar!

I bought the Bantam from the shop at 9-11 Langsett Road, and they moved to the Flora Street premises the following year so I bought the Starfire there!

Glad to hear your wife it still going strong! I bought a 1969 D14 Bantam from Leather & Simpson; cost me £132. I also passed my test on it - great little machine. I traded it in for a BSA 250cc. Starfire two years later. Enjoyed both bikes.

Here is the founder, Jakob David Applebaum. Born in Poland, he came to Britain in the early 1900s with his German-born wife Clara and daughter Rosie. He had a varied career in business; at the time of the 1911 census he was a self-employed “Traveller, pictorial postcards” resident in Liverpool. In 1921, still in Liverpool, he was a “Merchant, hosiery and woven underwear agent, and in the “1939 Register” he appears as a “Wholesale book merchant” living with Clara and Rosie on Kingfield Road, Sheffield.

Just looking online I found this note of Applebaum's at 298 West Street (on the corner of Mappin Street) but I don't know the date.

Here are the four liveries in my "collection". The original 1974 "Coffee and Cream" was awful; it went down so badly with local people that they darkened the "Coffee"! The old Cream and Dark Blue was always popular.

Here is an article about the new building from the 'Sheffield Daily Telegraph' of 22 October 1907.