bigal123456 Â Â 10 #1 Posted May 19, 2014 can anyone tell me where hymans furniture shop was and I think there was more than one........ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
rossyrooney   12 #2 Posted May 19, 2014 http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/10260-queenie-hyman/  ---------- Post added 19-05-2014 at 20:50 ----------  Early life  Epstein was born on 19 September 1934, in Rodney Street, Liverpool.[14] Harry and Queenie also had another son, Clive, who was born 22 months after his older brother.[15] During World War II, the Epsteins moved to Southport—where two schools expelled Epstein for laziness and poor performance—but returned to Liverpool in 1945.[16] The Epsteins lived at 197 Queens Drive, Childwall, in Liverpool, living there for 30 years.[17]  After his parents had moved him from one boarding school to another, including Clayesmore School in Dorset, the 14-year-old Epstein spent two years at Wrekin College in Shropshire, where he was taught the violin.[18] Shortly before his 16th birthday, he sent a long letter to his father, explaining that he wanted to become a dress designer, but Harry Epstein was adamantly opposed to the idea, and his son finally had to "report for duty" at the family's furniture shop.[19][15] After serving an apprenticeship for six months for another company,[20] he started work for his family's business on a £5 per week wage, and was congratulated on his first day of work for selling a £12 dining room table to a woman who had originally wanted to buy a mirror.[citation needed]  In December 1952, Epstein was drafted as a data entry clerk into the Royal Army Service Corps, and was posted to the Albany Street Barracks near Regent's Park in London, where he was often reprimanded for not picking up his army pay.[19] After returning to Liverpool, he was put in charge of the Clarendon Furnishing shop in Hoylake, and in 1955 was made a director of NEMS.[15] In September 1956, he took a trip to London to meet a friend, but after being there for only one day, he was robbed of his passport, birth certificate, chequebook, wristwatch, and all the money he had on him. As he did not want his parents to find out, he worked as a department store clerk until he had earned enough money to buy a train ticket back to Liverpool.[21] Back in Liverpool, he confessed his homosexuality to a psychiatrist—a friend of the Epstein family—who suggested to Harry Epstein that his son should leave Liverpool as soon as possible. During the sessions Epstein revealed his ambition of becoming an actor, so his parents allowed him go to London to study.[15][21]  After saying that he "felt like an old man at the age of 21",[22] Epstein attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), in London. His RADA classmates included actors Susannah York, Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole, but Epstein dropped out after the third term,[23] saying that he had become "too much of a businessman to enjoy being a student, and I didn't like being a student at all."[24] In 1964, he revealed that he would have liked to produce a theatre play, or even act, "in something by Chekhov", or a "straight drama" by John Osborne.[25]  Back in Liverpool, his father put his son in charge of the record department of the family's newly opened NEMS music store on Great Charlotte Street.[26] Epstein worked "day and night" at the store to make it a success, and it became one of the biggest musical retail outlets in the North of England.[27] The Epsteins opened a second store at 12–14 Whitechapel, and Epstein was put in charge of the entire operation. He often walked across the road to the Lewis's department store (which also had a music section), where Peter Brown was employed. He watched Brown's sales technique and was impressed enough to lure Brown to work for NEMS with the offer of a higher salary and a commission on sales.[28]  ---------- Post added 19-05-2014 at 20:56 ----------  http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=924481 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
1960boy   10 #3 Posted May 19, 2014 There was one at the top of Spital Hill Burngreave in the sixties. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
bullerboY Â Â 10 #4 Posted May 20, 2014 Schweitzers in the Wicker. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ukdobby   223 #5 Posted May 20, 2014 Thought Hymans was on Ellesmere Road at the top of Spital hill. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Kidorry   189 #6 Posted May 20, 2014 Is this any use?http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s15425&pos=2&action=zoom&id=18193 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
brian1941 Â Â 11 #7 Posted February 4, 2016 Is this any use?http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s15425&pos=2&action=zoom&id=18193 ------------------ Hi Kidorry, Thats a good picture of Hymans Shop, i bought my first bedroom furniture there. My mum use to get things from Hymans they use to be a collecter who came round the houses. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
stpetre   12 #8 Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) Is this any use?http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s15425&pos=2&action=zoom&id=18193  Yes Kidorry, that's the Hyman's on Ellesmere Road, (between Earsham Street and Gower Street). Managed-in most of my time- by the genial Liverpudlian, Mr.Jones. They had another store at Stocksbridge. Edited February 4, 2016 by stpetre Add Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...