Lostrider Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 If Redgates was down the Moor what was the great toy shop in Fitzallen Square, top side facing the the News Cinema? I spent hours throwing tantrums looking in the window,until I got what I wanted! Dreadful child. Im pretty sure Hobbies was in the middle of the row of shops opposite the Classic Cinema in Fitzallan Square, before it moved up near the town hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 If Redgates was down the Moor what was the great toy shop in Fitzallen Square, top side facing the the News Cinema? I spent hours throwing tantrums looking in the window,until I got what I wanted! Dreadful child. Definitely Wilson Gumpert. Their shop was about halfway along the top side of the square; it must have closed in the 1960s. It was a very old-established business; the Gumpert family were of German origin and suffered from anti-German sentiment during both World Wars. Traugott Gumpert, born in Germany in 1904, died in Sheffield in August 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecee Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 I've just been thinking; there used to be a corking fruit and veg shop next door to Wilson Gumpert just after the war. In its window I had my first sight of numerous tropical fruits after the austerity of the 1940's. Mike Hiya Puffin , you were nearly right in naming the fruit and veg shop next to Wilson Gumpert , it was in fact called " Corkers " I remember shopping there with my mother and a few years later with my wife . It was top class fruit and veg . David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Dead right - it was indeed Corkers. They moved from Fitzalan Square to Chapel Walk, and were there for 20 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUFFEMS Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 "Jackson the Tailors" on the Moor and in Fargate. They were a subsidary of Burtons in the 1960/70's and had their Head Office in the north east. The branch on the Moor was near to Alex Owen (I believe this was a T.V. electrical store) and the branch in Fargate was facing Boots (I think), it had a training room above the shop. Duffems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffin4 Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Hiya Puffin , you were nearly right in naming the fruit and veg shop next to Wilson Gumpert , it was in fact called " Corkers " I remember shopping there with my mother and a few years later with my wife . It was top class fruit and veg . David Hi David, That was a Freudian slip, I had no idea it was called Corkers, I just used corking in place of superb. The second coincidence though, is that I mostly saw the shop when waiting for the bus to visit my grandparents in Wincobank - I notice you are located there. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecee Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Hi David, That was a Freudian slip, I had no idea it was called Corkers, I just used corking in place of superb. The second coincidence though, is that I mostly saw the shop when waiting for the bus to visit my grandparents in Wincobank - I notice you are located there. Mike Hiya Mike, I realised that was what you had done , it was so nearly right it I had to reply to you that way, no offence was meant and I wasn't being pedantic. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crookesey Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 This is a cracking thread to kick start the old grey matter, I will try and get this correct (Fargate, left hand side going up to Norfolk Row circa 1960) Barclays Bank Austin Reed Richards ladies shop Fargate Court Alexandre The Tailor Fargate House inc Lotus Shoes, an optician Scrivens I think, Tudor's newsagent, a basement that the Blood Transfusion Service used and Alfred Peters & Son hearing aid mechanics that Derek Dooley was apprenticed to (demolished early 60's, now part of M&S) Marks & Spencer A furniture shop (please help with name) Thomas Cook Wallis ladies shop Hepworth tailors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 This is a cracking thread to kick start the old grey matter, I will try and get this correct (Fargate, left hand side going up to Norfolk Row circa 1960) Barclays Bank Austin Reed Richards ladies shop Fargate Court Alexandre The Tailor Fargate House inc Lotus Shoes, an optician Scrivens I think, Tudor's newsagent, a basement that the Blood Transfusion Service used and Alfred Peters & Son hearing aid mechanics that Derek Dooley was apprenticed to (demolished early 60's, now part of M&S) Marks & Spencer A furniture shop (please help with name) Thomas Cook Wallis ladies shop Hepworth tailors Can't think of the name of that furniture shop for my life and I think it's the one I worked at, it had 3 flooors, every thing was sold on the HP back then, the whole top floor was bookeeping. Hope someone can think of the name, there was one down the moor too, same company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsleydiva Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Can't think of the name of that furniture shop for my life and I think it's the one I worked at, it had 3 flooors, every thing was sold on the HP back then, the whole top floor was bookeeping. Hope someone can think of the name, there was one down the moor too, same company. Was it Proctors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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