carosio 185 #565 Posted January 29, 2020 Wasn't it an Army and Navy stores after Burgin's? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro 28 #566 Posted January 30, 2020 14 hours ago, carosio said: Wasn't it an Army and Navy stores after Burgin's? Mortimer's Army Stores was just below Burgin's. A small part of the sign can be seen just to the left of the bus in the picture linked to post #564. Here is a link to a scan from the 1965 Kelly's Directory showing businesses between the Barracks and Hillsborough Corner. https://i.postimg.cc/kgHKqxsk/01-Burgins.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
FIRETHORN1 58 #567 Posted January 30, 2020 Thanks hillsbro - of course it was Marsden's butcher's shop - not Marshall's - my memory is not quite as good as I thought it was! I clearly remember the awful stench of their factory on Wood lane/Myers Grove Lane though - we could smell it on our walk to and from Myers Grove school every day - and even from the school playing fields, when the wind was blowing in that direction. My old dad used to tell some very lurid tales about the danger of ever buying owt from Marsden's - but I'd better not repeat those tales here, in case I'm slandering them unfairly. Although my family never shopped there, plenty of people did - and to be fair to Marsden's - I never actually heard of anyone ever getting poisoned by their produce.😁 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
FIRETHORN1 58 #568 Posted January 30, 2020 ...and what about the few shops that were in Hillsborough in the early 60's that are still there to this day? I don't think there's many of them left. The only places still there that I remember from my toddler days are Funk's pork butcher's and the Simpkin's sweet factory. Talbot's butcher's was there until a couple of years ago, but even that seems to have changed hands and is now called Kevin Stenton's. Also, does anyone remember Burton's menswear shop, on the corner of the main road/Bradfield Rd? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro 28 #569 Posted January 31, 2020 I think Funk's must be the only retail business that is still trading under the same name, though no longer in the Funk family (as it was until the 1980s). The business can be traced back to George Funk (1865-1912) who arrived from Germany in the 1880s and opened a shop at 34 Infirmary Road. They were later on Langsett Road and Holme Lane before opening the present-day shop. The newsagent's on the corner next to Funk's is still there, having undergone many changes of ownership since William Day opened the shop in c. 1908. In the early 1960s it was owned by Frank Agus and his wife Ida. In the 1980s it became a "Star News Shop" for a time. Burton's menswear opened on the corner of Bradfield Road in the late 1920s, their new building replacing Bill Bush's single-storey grocer's shop that had been there. Burton's was taken over by Greenwoods, where I often used to buy clothes in the 1980s. Simpkin's factory has been there since the 1930s, when my mother worked there for a time. I once bought some of their sweets in Germany, so they must export a lot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
mikeG 16 #570 Posted January 31, 2020 12 hours ago, FIRETHORN1 said: ...and what about the few shops that were in Hillsborough in the early 60's that are still there to this day? I don't think there's many of them left. The only places still there that I remember from my toddler days are Funk's pork butcher's and the Simpkin's sweet factory. Talbot's butcher's was there until a couple of years ago, but even that seems to have changed hands and is now called Kevin Stenton's. Also, does anyone remember Burton's menswear shop, on the corner of the main road/Bradfield Rd? I remember Burtons. Got my first suit there. I worked in Barclays, next door. Also remember A.L. Simpkins. Are Styans and Shentalls still next to Barclays or have they gone/been taken over. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro 28 #571 Posted January 31, 2020 Styan's and Shentall's haven't been there for quite a long time. Styan's became a travel agent (Woodcock's at one time) and I think Shentalls was a café. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro 28 #572 Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) Here are details of shops in Hillsborough from the Kelly's Directory of 1965. https://i.postimg.cc/2yRZx5s3/01.jpg Edited January 31, 2020 by hillsbro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
rarmin4 12 #573 Posted June 28, 2020 Hi all, Bottom of Middlewood Road in the 80s/90s was a TV sales shop. It was possibly number 15, next to the old Decor8 shop. If memory serves it had a red sign above the shop with the name in yellow. It was NOT one of the nationals that were about at the time like DER, Radio rentals etc, just a small independent. What was its name? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
bazza63 12 #574 Posted June 29, 2020 I worked in WIgfalls. late 50s early 60s,does anyone remember Wilcoxs furniture shop Bingleys flower shop[ [also had barrow corner Roselle St] Atkin & Ansells furniture makers Richard Treganzers nuts and bolts all on Proctor Place. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro 28 #575 Posted June 29, 2020 Hi bazza63 - yes, I remember all these, also the Kinema on Proctor Place. It's all very different now of course, but I think the Bingleys' daughter Vicky still has a flower stall in the arcade. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
diksey 14 #576 Posted June 29, 2020 In the late sixties I knew a girl called Linda Harben, her parents had two dress shops on Middlewood Road. One was in the Hillsborough shopping center, the other was further along opposite the Park Cinema. I think she now lives in Florida. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...