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Lincolnshire, ex Dykes Hall Road
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Retired printer
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Pub in Fitzalan Square. (not Marples)
hillsbro replied to Roveress's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
The change in name to Esperanto Place is explained in the book "Street Names of Sheffield" by the late Peter Harvey. -
Pub in Fitzalan Square. (not Marples)
hillsbro replied to Roveress's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
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 ÂŁ1.50.
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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).
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Motorcycle shops in 70's Sheffield
hillsbro replied to carsupplier's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
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! -
Motorcycle shops in 70's Sheffield
hillsbro replied to carsupplier's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
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! -
Motorcycle shops in 70's Sheffield
hillsbro replied to carsupplier's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
Glad to hear your wife it still going strong! I bought a 1969 D14 Bantam from Leather & Simpson; cost me ÂŁ132. 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.
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Sheffield Transport Bus Lively Question.
hillsbro replied to GabrielC's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
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. -
Tracing Buildings History 1907
hillsbro replied to TheBar&Kettle's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
Here is an article about the new building from the 'Sheffield Daily Telegraph' of 22 October 1907. -
Pierrepoints Fruit & Veg Stall
hillsbro replied to John Humberston's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
That's interesting, sadbrewer. Being interested in family history (especially since I learned that my great-grandmother Ann Robinson, née Beresford was descended from Sir Thomas Beresford, who fought at Agincourt in 1415!) I did the same sort of online research 10-15 years ago, with pretty much the same result. I'm sure that the Pierrepoint and Pierrepont people are distantly related, the difficulty being in establishing a link in this case! But the belief in Sheffield that William Pierrepont of Sheffield was related to Albert Pierrepoint the executioner is more recent than any putative family connection, being based on simple confusion of the two surnames. I doubt very much that William the greengrocer would have claimed to be related to Albert the hangman! -
Pierrepoints Fruit & Veg Stall
hillsbro replied to John Humberston's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
Quite right - the spelling is different - the executioner was Albert PierrePOINT and the shop was owned by William PierrePONT (1905-79) and there does not seem to be a connection. Here is a link to one of several old threads on the subject!