S.b.hoggs removals

Hi does any one have any pictures of the removal company called s.b.hoggs which was on rutland road sheffield can any one help me as i need a photo of one of the removal lorries as ive just lost my dad ive just got in toutch with a very good friend of my dad called mick griffin but he as no pics please can any one help thank you all

Hi - the best I can offer is this display advert. from the 1968 Kelly's Directory..

hi thank you very much i lost my dad in january and he worked for hoggs for meny years if you come acroo any more pics could you please send them to me thank you again

Hi bibby1 - glad to help; I'll have a look through my "archives".

I only ever needed Hogg's services (as specialist safe removers) once. In 1980 I acquired an ex-bank safe, which I decided would be useful for keeping valuables in. The men who delivered it said they couldn't get it down into the cellar where I wanted it, but suggested that I "ring Hogg's". A manager duly came, saw the confined space and said he wasn't sure and would have to ask his foreman. They both then arrived, and after much head-scratching and ho-humming the foreman eventually said "Aye - we'll get it down for you, owd lad, but for goodness' sake don't ever ask us to bring it back up again".

They were as good as their word, and - sure enough - when I sold the house I had to sell it "complete with safe" (this had to be written into the contract!).

A STORY FROM THE PAST OF HOGGS

The east coast floods the hogg bros supplied a removal lorry to the British Red Cross then on Queens Road to move clothing out to the receiving depot at Louth Airfield after working all day and as a young teenager at the time working as a volunteer they sent me with them they took there biggest lorry and it was filled to the top with clothing, bedding, and footwear, which had been donated by sheffield people,on arrival at Louth about midnight ,the surprise of the receiving people was amazing at the amount of material we had on board The gentleman in charge said it would take all night to off load, and has both Hogg bros had been working all day he said we were to follow him and he would fix us up with some sleeping accommodation little did we know it was in Grimsby police station cells I remember we were woken up about 6-30 by the station sgt and sent on our way

hi thankyou it was my dad that moved your safe for you his name was brian a little chap, he was hogg's no1 safe mover it means alot to me finding pictures and hearing about my dad thankyou so much phil

Yes, bibby1 - I remember your dad well, a small chap who obviously knew his stuff and had the calm, efficient manner of someone who quietly "got on with the job". I remember well how they achieved the near-impossible task of getting a 1½-ton, 3 foot-wide safe down a 3-foot 6-inch wide stone staircase. Planks on the cellar steps, safe sliding down the planks, steadied with a wire rope. Rope around the cellarhead (thick blankets protecting the corner of the wall) and strung across the living room to the kitchen where it curled round a baulk of timber braced across the kitchen doorway. Very clever, and needing much muscle-power. I think I got a bargain for £70 even at 1980 prices. But no wonder there's still a safe in the front cellar of No 29 Dykes Hall Road (even though it's been empty since the bloke who bought the house from me lost the key!).

hi thank you very much i lost my dad in january and he worked for hoggs for meny years if you come acroo any more pics could you please send them to me thank you again

hi bibby sorry to hear about your dad i was brians work mate for many years we had some good times at hoggs and some bad not many hoggs men left now do you know if doug the fitter is still alive my name is mick griffin

hi mick ive sent you a email to call me on 2497964 its so nice to hear from you thankyou philip

I just noticed this advert. in the programme for the "Spring Fayre" at Wadsley Methodist Church in 1938. The 1942 Kelly's Directory shows "Bernard Hogg, furniture dealer" on Proctor Place and "John T. Hogg, motor haulage contractor" at 7 Palm Street. Going further back, the 1911 census return shows John Thomas Hogg, then aged 38, a "removal contractor" living at 7 Palm Street. His son Bernard, then aged 9 months, was presumably the furniture dealer who later traded from Proctor Place.

Hi does any one have any pictures of the removal company called s.b.hoggs which was on rutland road sheffield can any one help me as i need a photo of one of the removal lorries as ive just lost my dad ive just got in toutch with a very good friend of my dad called mick griffin but he as no pics please can any one help thank you all

wasn,t hoggs on burngreave road?

hi thank you to all yes hoggs was on burngreave road do you know of them thank you