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About hillsbro

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  • Birthday 06/04/1948

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    Lincolnshire, ex Dykes Hall Road
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    Retired printer

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Here is an article about the new building from the 'Sheffield Daily Telegraph' of 22 October 1907.
  5. 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!
  6. 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!
  7. In Hillsborough (of course 🙂) at the Park Hotel, and 57 years on it's still there as "The Park".
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Yes, I'm still around, still going (fairly) strong! I dunno - 75! 😮🙂
  12. I know the feeling. I have just turned 75, and I recently learned that at least five of my former classmates at Malin Bridge Junior School have died. 🤨 Here we all are in 1959; I am at the far left of the second row back, next to headmaster Frank Courage. Ashley Davis, next to me, died in 2013.
  13. Looking in a 1957 Kelly's directory, a Harold Carnell lived at No. 38 Langdon Street. As far as I know he was no relation to the Carnell family who had the coach business.
  14. In case it's of interest, here is a link to some photos on the "picturesheffield" site (scroll down). https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?&action=search2&keywords=Ref_No_increment%2CDate_Period%2CImage_Date%2CTitle%2CFurther_Information%2CKeywords%2CPhotographer%2CImage_Copyright%3BMYSQL_MATCHES%3B"neville+watts"%3B#rowNumber5
  15. I have Kelly's directories back to the early 1900s, and "G. Clayton, butcher" is listed at No. 4 Fitzwilliam Street from 1971 onwards, but from the 1920s to 1971 No. 4 was "Greenlees & Sons, boot & shoe dealers". I cannot find a J. Barlow at No. 189 Fitzwilliam Street, but old directories show a "John Barlow, butcher" at 189 Glossop Road. From c. 1930 to 1939 No. 181 was indeed "Bernard Walker, butcher", but note that No. 181 was destroyed in the 1940 Blitz.
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