Old Leeds Firms

Post by **dsco** » Sun 06 Apr, 2008 3:34 pm

Sorry Fevlad - was deleting your duplicate posts and got rid of the original message too. Here it is again: Fevlad wrote: Inside I remember it being a cross between and Mr Swindley's drapers shop in Tarnation Street.Doreen Lostock: I can't find it Mr SwindleyMr Swindley: (Arthur Lowe) There appears to be some stock lost Miss erm Lostock Doreen's best mate was Sheila Birtleswhy do we remember this [edited for content]?? Whilst I'm here though - please mind your language, kids present! (potentially)Ta,dsco

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sun 06 Apr, 2008 8:28 pm

dsco wrote: Sorry Fevlad - was deleting your duplicate posts and got rid of the original message too. Here it is again: Fevlad wrote: Inside I remember it being a cross between and Mr Swindley's drapers shop in Tarnation Street.Doreen Lostock: I can't find it Mr SwindleyMr Swindley: (Arthur Lowe) There appears to be some stock lost Miss erm Lostock Doreen's best mate was Sheila Birtleswhy do we remember this [edited for content]?? Whilst I'm here though - please mind your language, kids present! (potentially)Ta,dsco my apologies although my point stands!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sun 06 Apr, 2008 9:07 pm

Found a pic of Marshall and Snelgrove. It does look ridiculous the rooftop extension. Note, nothing in the pic is now standing that you can really see apart from the corner building on the right side of Bond Street, and the Mill Hill Chapel...

Loiner in Cyprus · Post by **Loiner in Cyprus** » Sun 06 Apr, 2008 9:14 pm

fevlad wrote: there used to be these really posh shops called Marshall and Snellgrove and mathias Robinson where I think the Victoria quarter now isScheerers music shop was along the same street. I saw my first les paul gold Top in the window: still dream of owning one.vallances was good for records Wasn't the Music shop Kitchens? If my memory serves me right, Scheerers was on North Street in the 60s before moving to the Merrion Centre where I believe it still is.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 06 Apr, 2008 9:20 pm

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: fevlad wrote: there used to be these really posh shops called Marshall and Snellgrove and mathias Robinson where I think the Victoria quarter now isScheerers music shop was along the same street. I saw my first les paul gold Top in the window: still dream of owning one.vallances was good for records Wasn't the Music shop Kitchens? If my memory serves me right, Scheerers was on North Street in the 60s before moving to the Merrion Centre where I believe it still is. My daughter's first cello came from Scheerers. It was a Zella (Rumanian - all cheap string intruments were from either there or Czechoslovakia then) it was faulty - it wouldn't stay in tune. When the strings specialist at school examined it she said that the interference fit of the pegs in their holes was incorrect - we took it back and they accused us of drilling out the holes! It was only through the fact that Leeds Education spent such a lot of money with them that we got satisfaction. We bought the next one from a violin repairer in Bradford, who set it up and maintained it for us.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sun 06 Apr, 2008 9:53 pm

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: fevlad wrote: there used to be these really posh shops called Marshall and Snellgrove and mathias Robinson where I think the Victoria quarter now isScheerers music shop was along the same street. I saw my first les paul gold Top in the window: still dream of owning one.vallances was good for records Wasn't the Music shop Kitchens? If my memory serves me right, Scheerers was on North Street in the 60s before moving to the Merrion Centre where I believe it still is. yes now I think about it

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Mon 07 Apr, 2008 9:41 pm

Just harking back to the Rank building and Kershaws. Kershaws was some way behind the green and white striped Rank building, on Ashton Road. They did indeed make cinema projectors, there's a good display of them at the Armley Mills museum.My grandfather, William Tennyson worked there as a joiner from just before the war until he retired in the sixties. He used to work on the 'Soho' studio camera they made. This was a mahogany and brass job about the size of a microwave oven and he made the plate holders out of hardwood called 'Mansonia'. These were frames containing the glass plate with a sliding blind which slotted into the back of the camera after it had been focused, the blind was pulled free and the exposure made.Kershaws also made the very first single lens reflex camera but this was no pocket camera. Their range was called 'Soho' but they made small bellows cameras; the Soho Penguin and Soho Cadet.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 10:20 pm

ablesons sheds at Stourton.I think Frankie Vaughan was related to them

iansmithofotley · Post by **iansmithofotley** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 10:49 pm

fevlad wrote: ablesons sheds at Stourton.I think Frankie Vaughan was related to them Hi fevlad,I remember that Ableson's were located at Sheepscar (in Sheepscar Steet North), prior to Stourton. As a child, I, too, was told by my family that Frankie Vaughan (Ableson) was related to the 'family' firm. I was later surprised to find out that he was born and brought up in Liverpool albeit he later attended Leeds College of Art. I always thought that he was born and bred in Leeds because of the timber connections and what I had been told. I now wonder whether or not there was any true connection other than having the same surname.Ian.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 11:22 pm

iansmithofotley wrote: fevlad wrote: ablesons sheds at Stourton.I think Frankie Vaughan was related to them Hi fevlad,I remember that Ableson's were located at Sheepscar (in Sheepscar Steet North), prior to Stourton. As a child, I, too, was told by my family that Frankie Vaughan (Ableson) was related to the 'family' firm. I was later surprised to find out that he was born and brought up in Liverpool albeit he later attended Leeds College of Art. I always thought that he was born and bred in Leeds because of the timber connections and what I had been told. I now wonder whether or not there was any true connection other than having the same surname.Ian. I always thought Frankie Vaughan had some connection with Ablesons - although I knew he was from Liverpool.