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  1. He did own it but it was said that he always had to be there or his stock or his takings were down if he wasnt.
  2. you have convinced me, you are completely correct. sorry
  3. I bow to your memory but I can remember a single storey building along Hodgson St, it had a high wall around it and the roof was grey/blue slates but as to the building that is there now, I was just a conclusion as the single storey building has gone or am I wrong.
  4. The School was demolished in the 70s along with all the few remaining houses round it. If you look at St Silas House its to high to have been part of the old school, everything went im afraid. The Sheffield artist George Cunningham lived on Hodgson St near the school in fact Im sure he went there. I worked just up from the school on Headford St.
  5. Granville St runs paralell to the back of the Midland Station and they are in the S2 post code.
  6. Hiya Cynthia, God I remember PASSING CLOUD cigarettes they were oval and they were in a redish/pink packet and on the front was a picture of the head of a red indian chief (passing cloud) when I was an apprentice smoker I tried loads of brands including BLACK SOBRANIE or Black Russian as they were nick-named, black paper with a gold paper tip. I live just down from where the old Gleadless Post Office was.
  7. The information that I had about Cuneos was from ASPECTS OF SHEFFIELD 2 (available at Sheffield Scene) On page 90 there is a referance to the CUNEOS living in Lambert St in 1871 at No 41. There was Andrew and his wife Maria along with their six children also his son-in-law lived with them but the family were not new to Sheffield as all the children were born in the City and the family as I said in an earlier post were listed as Musicians and in 1876 they were listed as Ice cream makers.
  8. I can remember the name EDLEY BROTHERS in the seventies they were at No 87/91 Sidney St and as you say there is a night club there. A great pity that a very good manufacturer went.It could be that somebody may still own the trade mark, one name does spring to mind and that is British Silverware in Windsor St down Attercliffe, it does go under the other name of the Solpro Group. When I worked for them they had lots of old trade marks of companys long gone.
  9. Hi again Mystique, A good bet is to contact Ashley Carson at the Assay Office on Portobello St regarding your Grandfathers Etchmark, they may have a register of trade marks and Etchmarks. I used to have one myself but someone borrowed it and it ended up in a Museum in France. Wendygs--- a firm ceases to be when all that is left is a Name. Viners Cutlery was very good quality, but now most of it is cheap 18/10 stainless steel made in Japan and Korea and it isnt a patch on real Viners ware.
  10. It was the BUCCANEER but originally it was the Grand Hotels Cocktail Bar.
  11. From being 15 up to 20 years old I used to hang around the Top of the Manor including around Barnards. They were the first shop to install a load of vending machines outside their shop. As well as the hot drinks machine, there was a chocolate machine, several cigarette machines and a cold milk machine, it cost sixpence for a carton (two and a half pence ) but if you hit the machine in a certain area you could get one for nothing.I used to knock around with the Steve Oldfield whos father had Oldfields Grocery shop just down from Barnards. Next door to Barnards was Goodisons Greengrocers, they had a lovely daughter called Sheila and she killed herself over some a******e when she was sixteen , such a waste. Barnards started with just a Toy shop, then they bought the Sweet shop next door and later they built a Hair Dressers over the Sweet shop, I have not been around there for over forty years now.
  12. I met my wife in the Elephant it was a bit of a shock as she told me she was baby sitting that night!!!
  13. When the Cuneo family first arrived in Sheffield from Italy in the late 1800s all the family apart from the Mother were classed as Musicians in a census return and by the next census they were all ice cream makers as they are to-day
  14. Hi Mystique, The Enterprise Works was full of Little Mesters all doing their own things.The main tenant of the works was a company called THE ROCKINGHAM PLATE & CUTLERY COMPANY which was owned by two brothers called Cyril & Percy Potter. This is not my own recollections its from the Herbert Housley book, you really should make a point of buying the book. One of the reasons that you cant find any cutlery with your Grandads name on it maybe because whenever any cutlery was ordered by a retailer they usually had their own mark put on. Harrods or even Sheffield Wednesday are a couple of examples. I dont know if your Grandfather was an outworker that means doing work for a bigger cutlery manufacturer or whether he was a manufacturer in his own right, if he was an outworker, there will be no cutlery with his name on it Im afraid. As for the Enterprise Works I think the Council put a compulsary purchase order on it in the late fifties because they had St Marys ring road in mind but it was not demolished until the late sixties.
  15. Im afraid that you have got it wrong Viners has not exsisted for over thirty years, the name still exsists but the cutlery that carries the name VINER is made in Japan, so dont think its made in Sheffield. The only time it reaches any Sheffield workers is when comes to Saynors Silver Platers on Egerton St, where it is either plated or re-packed into different boxes and by a quirk of fate the Saynors building is the last bit of VINERS factory that survives. Lots of firms do this, even the firm I work for and I am disgusted at the practice. The Sheffield Shop on Ecclesall Rd has some Japanese knives on display but they dont know that they are Japanese, its true because our firm sells them to them.
  16. If its the same Deardens, They moved down to Liverpool St at Attercliffe, I also worked there 37 years ago for about a week.
  17. I once worked in the Enterprise Works for a chap called Hayes. Its full address was 66 St Marys Road, it was knocked down years ago . It was where Pee Bees sandwich shop is on Shoreham is.The exact place is just past the sandwich shop and where the grassed area is as you turn to go up St Marys Rd thats where it was. The place itself was full of little mesters (not Small men ) who worked for themselves, thats just what the man I worked for did. I used to polish garden trowels, spades, hoes and also hand guards for claymore swords. There is a book written by a man called Herbert Housley who with his father and brothers had several premises around the city and one was in the Enterprise Works. In his book BACK TO THE GRINDSTONE on page 102 there is a photo of the works and a chapter on when Herbert worked there. The book can be bought at Sheffield Scene on Surrey St. Hope this helps.
  18. I was not into heavy rock, but I did see Roy Orbison, Bobby Vee, Brenda Lee, Sounds Incorporated plus many more who I just cant re-call and across the road at the Gaumont I was priviliged to see Eddie Cochran just before he was killed in a horrific car crash , on the same bill was Gene Vincent and our home grown artist Vince Eager. To see all these top artist the most I paid was 3/6 in to-days money seventeen and a half pence.
  19. I slept through it all, all I saw was the aftermath when I went to work the next day, I was seventeen at the time. I could sleep for England then.
  20. The Star was roughly the same size as it is now in the fifties and the Cinemas nearly filled a full page, look how many we have now. I enjoy the letters page and on the whole its a good local read.
  21. Erics sandwiches were great, I had several young lads working for me at Butlers and they always had two GEORGE B.E.S.T. -- Bacon , Egg , Sausage and Tomato. every Saturday morning. Erics surname was Jarvis and I think they are still there. You were spot on about Stuart, a very nice bloke.
  22. I grew up near Manor CASTLE, it was always called that even though everybody knew it was a lodge --- so to me and the people that grew up near the castle, it will remain the Castle
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