60's - 70's Businesses.

[zakes 68]

60’s – 70’s businesses.

 

I have been a rover, I have walked alone. Roving about is something I have always done and always enjoyed. Some of you may know I have a long memory, but as we all know, it isn’t possible to remember everything.

 

During my meanderings in the late 60’s –early 70’s I saw lots of businesses. I recently did some reminisce-ing about that time, and recall some of these businesses and the addresses, but not all of them (addresses).

 

I though some of you fellow forummers may know some of the businesses in the list below. See below. If any of you have worked at the companies, or if you have any anecdotes, I (we) would like to read them.

 

Please try to refrain from Googling, and reaching from your Kelly’s books and other guests. If you wish, you can (could) see this as a quiz. All Sheffield addresses.

 

Harrison – (office supplies) co.

 

C.D.R. – plant hirers l.t.d

 

Goldfish Bowl – Chinese Takeaway I loved their chicken omelettes and savoury rissholes).

 

DSB – metal spraying

 

Economic Cutting Ltd. – steel

 

Can-Can – Fashion boutique

 

Pram Shop – prams.

 

William Mackley – Bespoke tailor.

 

Eric Stead (Garages) Ltd – cars, servicing.

 

John Townroe – electro platers.

 

Irving White – cutting tools.

 

Procters Ltd – Haulage and removal.

 

Capitol Caravan Centre Ltd – caravans.

 

Russell Bros. Ltd – knife manufact.

 

R. Hollingworth – Iron and Steel Mercant.

 

Brightside Motor Sales – cars bought and sold.

 

Trowbridge Ltd – transportation.

 

C.H. Harrington & Co Ltd – sheet metalwork.

 

Wellerman Bros. Ltd – concrete.

 

James Christie & Sons Ltd – steel swimming pools.

 

Robert Earl & Sons Ltd – transportation.

 

Peter Flower – cars.

 

J.F. Thorpe – builders.

 

Golden Griddle – restaurant.

 

Sheffield Welders Ltd – cast iron and alloy repairs.

 

G.S. Baigent – steel.

 

Reynolds (Cash in a Flash) – finance – loans.

 

Joseph Beardshaw & Co. – steel.

 

L.D. Noble Ltd – vehicles.

 

T. Ardern & Son Ltd – builders.

 

C.D. Steele Ltd – steel.

 

Rex Ltd. – fire prevention.

 

T. Bates Ltd – wine merchants.

 

George Soutar & Co. Ltd. – tool manufact.

 

W.H. Benson Ltd – carpets.

 

W.J. Wollerton Ltd – decorators.

 

Trend Entertainment agency – go-go, groups, cabaret.

 

Bored Piling Ltd – bored piles, pilecaps.

 

Hillcliff Hard Metals Ltd – drills.

 

R-D-B – freight.

 

James Childs & Sons Ltd – demolition & excavation. (Dig, dig, diggers).

 

B & H Fuel Co. – coal and coke.

 

Thomas Wilkinson & Sons Ltd – general building.

 

Home Freezers – freezers & frozen food.

 

Reeves Charlesworth Ltd – building contractors.

 

Alfred A. Brown Ltd – laboratory supplies.

 

Holmes & Younie Ltd – car dealer (Renault?).

 

Carter Horseley – pipework, plant install.

 

Micor Ltd – knives and saws.

 

Warringtons Ltd – transportation.

 

S. Clough Ibbotson & Co. Ltd – office equipment.

 

Swift Bros. Ltd – rolling mills rollers.

 

Chatburn & Chantry Ltd – furnace engineers.

 

Torpedo Co. Ltd – sheet metal workers.

 

Roger Sherwood – hairdressing. (Blokes & birds).

 

David E. Hinchcliffe Ltd – car body repairs.

 

Penistone Upholstery – upholstery.

 

Ted Black – driving school.

 

Castles – decorators handyman.

 

Dels Supermarket Ltd – supermarket.

 

George Jowitt & Sons – abrasive wheel manufact.

 

Thos. C Wild Ltd – engineers.

 

Anglo American – magazine & paperback exchange. (Nuddy books).

 

L. Sorby & Sons. – cutting tools.

 

E. Marsden & Son – sheet metal work.

 

F.G.F. Tools – precision engineering.

 

Albert Fowler Ltd – textile and footwear.

 

Devonshire Engineering – machine tools.

 

G.B. Housley Ltd – metal merchants.

 

Booth & Fisher Ltd – buses.

 

Denton Bros – swing grinders.

 

Capri – restaurant.

 

Harry Atkinson & Son Ltd – transportation.

 

Sheaf Plant Ltd – earth movers, excavators.

 

Edward Leigh & Sons – motor engineers.

 

Chadwick & Son Ltd – builders & contractors.

 

William Bakewell & Son Ltd – electrical wholesalers.

 

Dexel Tyre Co. Ltd – tyres.

 

Louis Demery & Sons Ltd – engineers.

 

Eaton & Booth Ltd – Rollers – forgers.

 

Northern Fabrication Ltd – sheetmetal workers.

 

Millthorpe Metals – scrap.

 

Newcastle Building Society – building society.

 

Burnley Building Society – building society.

 

Phoenix Pub – pub (not the one in Highlane, Ridgeway (Wards)).

 

Roberts and Belk Ltd – silver.

 

Francis Colley & Sons – industrial clothing.

 

Hardy’s – bakers.

 

 

That’s it nah, ah’ve worn mi shoys aht!!

 

Zakes.

[hillsbro 28]

E. Marsden & Son - the best metal fabricators in town. Ernest Marsden was a sheet metal worker who borrowed £30 in 1928 and set up in business, working from home in Burnaby Street. He worked hard, took enormous risks and built up the business from nothing, moving to Herries Road in the 1940s. He "retired" in the 1960s but couldn't just stop working, so he bought a farm at High Bradfield! After a few years he moved to Torquay and lived to the ripe old age of 95. As they say, "hard work never did anybody any harm".

[Crosser 10]

I worked at A.G. Burrell & Co on Thomas Street in the 70's

 

Good times

[handypandy 14]

As a teenager in the 60's my dad's friendly, back street barber told me that as my hair was so thick, I would never get away without using a dollop of brylcreem. Fashions were changing and I wanted out. My mate had his hair styled and I asked him where. Off I went to Roger Sherwoods on Arundel Gate for a £1. 10s cut and blow.... and never looked back:)

 

Looking on 'Relative Worth' that now equates to about twenty five quid ....it was worth every penny at the time but £25 for a haircut on todays thinning mop would break my heart.

 

Last time I was in Bakewell, I noticed a Roger Sherwoods there. My gran used to go to his mother's salon at Southey Green.

 

 

 

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[forgeman 18]

I remember Falkland transport and T C Harrison commercial vehicles.

William Marsden the butchers.

Wheeler road transport

SUT Coach tours

[Firemansam 10]

I can provide you with information about Rex Fire Prevention.

 

Worked there from 75 to 89

[Padders 2,849]

surprised wiggys not been mentioned.

[francypants 441]

Hartley Marsland...... (Attercliffe ) Office Furniture.

[mikeG 16]

I worked at E.D.P., a computer bureau on Solly St., 1969.

[alf1956 10]

I worked at C H Harringtons & Torpedo ventilating as a apprentice sheetmetal worker in the early 1970's.

[jackanne 10]

Gees decorators merchants shoreham street in the 60s.