OwlsChick Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Long shot here,but does anybody remember Nixons pawn shops? Apparantly,round the Attercliffe area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hi OwlsChick - I don't remember the shops but old Kelly's directories show "Thomas D. Nixon & Sons, pawnbrokers" at 220-224 Gibraltar Street (closed before 1925), 26 Wicker and 87 Carlisle Road. The picturesheffield.com site gives this photo of Gibraltar Street that includes the shop (the 3-storey building in the centre - click on "Zoom image" to enlarge) while the Wicker branch is at the right hand side of this view. The 1911 census shows Thomas Draper Nixon, a pawnbroker then aged 33, living at 227 Western Bank with his wife Jane, two children and a maid. His father Tom Nixon had also been a "pawnbroker, clothier and jeweller" who lived over the Gibraltar Street shop in the 1880s. Thomas's grandfather, also Thomas, kept the Bull & Mouth pub in Waingate at the time of the 1871 census. Thomas Nixon Jnr. died in 1956, aged 78. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlsChick Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Hi OwlsChick - I don't remember the shops but old Kelly's directories show "Thomas D. Nixon & Sons, pawnbrokers" at 220-224 Gibraltar Street (closed before 1925), 26 Wicker and 87 Carlisle Road. The picturesheffield.com site gives this photo of Gibraltar Street that includes the shop (the 3-storey building in the centre - click on "Zoom image" to enlarge) while the Wicker branch is at the right hand side of this view. The 1911 census shows Thomas Draper Nixon, a pawnbroker then aged 33, living at 227 Western Bank with his wife Jane, two children and a maid. His father Tom Nixon had also been a "pawnbroker, clothier and jeweller" who lived over the Gibraltar Street shop in the 1880s. Thomas's grandfather, also Thomas, kept the Bull & Mouth pub in Waingate at the time of the 1871 census. Thomas Nixon Jnr. died in 1956, aged 78. Thanks Hillsbro.The Nixons are distant relatives of mine whom i new nothing apart from they had a couple of pawn shops,so thanks for the information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz247 Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 I have a necklace my nan left me still in the original box from t.d.nixon & sons ltd, jeweler and medalist 26' wicker Sheffield. X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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