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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.

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!

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!

In Hillsborough (of course 🙂) at the Park Hotel, and 57 years on it's still there as "The Park".

Hi crazy55 - I found the Albert Sykes you mention in public records. Albert and Doreen were married in 1958 and they still live at Foxhill according to the electoral roll. So there won't be a connection with the Albert Sykes that Deborah is enquiring about who was born in 1917.

Hi Deborah - if you are still in the Forum I've sent you a Private Message, having found some relevant information. Also, William & Jane's likely children were Jessie, born 1915, Florence, born 1916, Albert & William Jnr., twins born 1917, Beatrice May, born 15 November 1920 but evidently adopted, Nellie, born 1921, Clifford A., born 1924, Ernest, born 1928, John, born 1929 and Reginald J., born 1930.

Yes, that was the case when there was still a postcard / printed paper / unsealed greetings card rate for overseas mail. I don't know when this changed but for inland mail the postcard etc. rate disappeared with the introduction of First and Second Class post in September 1968. Between 1965 and 1968 the inland letter rate was 4d and the postcard etc. rate 3d. The new rates were First Class 5d and Second Class 4d.