Pierrepoint shop that time forgot.

[Dave59]

Hi All

 

I delivered bread to Pierrepoints in the early 60's. Not much else to say about it - sorry!

 

David D

[stewpot54]

I found this link on the Flickr website >

If this link doesn't work, go to the Flickr website and enter 'greengrocers sheffield' and have a look at the top two images, they are both taken from the inside of the shop.

 

p.s. Check the sell by date if you're thinking of buying anything from there.

 

Brilliant photo /shattered the illusion though/expected to see rotten fruit and veg and a couple of fossilised assistants.

incidentally who actually owns the property now I wonder.

[beardno1]

Very interesting allways wondered about this shop whenever ive passed it.

[Joanl]

I can say it was still open late 64/65. used to be a very busy shop in it's day....I lived on Newhall Road and then we had the choice of Pierrepont to the right at the top or Whittakers to the left. Looks very sad now, doesn't it?

[parsleydiva]

Pierrepoint's was a very busy little shop. I was a very good friend of a friend of there's and would meet up with them on the odd occasion. Well known in the Darnall area and I think they belonged to the Community Centre at Darnall.

[Clifflad]

There has been a shop stood empty on Attercliffe road for as long as Ican remember.I have always noticed it because of the name Pierrepoint.

I think it used to sell fruit and veg through a market style front and must have been closed at least 50 years.

It is just as if the shutters were pulled down and totally left as it was all those years ago.

Iwould love to know more about it.It is on the left side leaving town somewhere below the old Banners on the opposite side of the road.

 

There was a fruit and veg shop named Pierpoints next to Attercliffe church. It was about a couple of minutes walk from Banner's on the opposite side . Opposite Worksop Road.

[whitewitch]

I was born down attercliffe (1970) i cannot remember the greengrocers as we moved when i was 4, however, i did take care of Thomas Williams wife during her final year who passed away about 1990/1991, they also sold fruit and veg on the side of the roads (from the old wooden carts)

[bobby99]

have a look here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IQOCLVSATETUFQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/10/23/ncrime223.xml

This was the family who owned the shop

the shop was called Pierrepont the hangman was called Pierrepoint with an I

[Joanl]

My mother and grandmother always called it Pierrepoints but, you are right, as is seen on the photo....it is Pierrepont as in my own post. I think it was a local dialect thing.

[bobby99]

The hangman was definitely called Pierrepoint... by the way, the film is on DVD and it's very good and in parts very sad. I bought if from Ebay for £5

I was lead to believe that an assistant hangman lived on Bole Hill Lane Crookes, I don't know his name, their identity was top secret at the time they were "working" does anybody know when their names became public? I got this from Wikipedia

Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) is the most famous member of a Yorkshire family who provided three of Britain's Chief Executioners in the first half of the 20th century. He lived at Clayton, Bradford, Lincoln, Oldham and the Merseyside seaside resort of Southport.

I don't think the Pierrepoint family in question came from Sheffield.