When the bombs were dropping around that area my Aunt was on the roof with a pipe dousing the roof with water as I expect many were. If a spark hit the factory would have gone up causing massive damage. Sadly the whole family were bombed out just round the corner on Princess Street.
My relative, Arthur Douglas, worked at Pumphreys for many years, he used to drive from his home in New Marske every Sunday night, to light the boiler ready for work to commence on the Monday morning.
Is this the entrance to Pumphrey’s Admin section that once stood in Archer St? It appears to have been taken just prior to demolition, after Pumphrey’s had vacated this premises and the adjacent factory which had a large glazed ‘art-deco’ style frontage to Mandale Rd. The factory section now survives as a car-showroom. Above the pictured centre door was a decorative iron-bracket from which was hung three gilt-finish tapering ‘sugar loaves’ , these being the ancient guild-sign of a sugar refiner & merchant. The sign appears to have been removed in this photograph, I wonder who retained that?
Having researched a little further, the 3 sugar-loaves sign was actually that of a person trading as a Grocer. Presumably this sign had been salvaged by Messrs Sheldon and Pearson, purely for the fact that it represented the core ingredient of their confectionery trade? Or (like Joseph Rowntree of York) had they originally been trading as Grocers?
I have a patterned glass water jug engraved with the name ‘Amelia Sheldon’ who, I believe was a distant relative of mine on my mother’s side, and connected with the family who owned the sweet factory.
My mother’s maiden name was Hutton and her mother’s maiden name Blenkinsopp.
Pumphries Sugar Mill in Thornaby.
When the bombs were dropping around that area my Aunt was on the roof with a pipe dousing the roof with water as I expect many were. If a spark hit the factory would have gone up causing massive damage. Sadly the whole family were bombed out just round the corner on Princess Street.
My relative, Arthur Douglas, worked at Pumphreys for many years, he used to drive from his home in New Marske every Sunday night, to light the boiler ready for work to commence on the Monday morning.
My uncle Leslie Dale was boilerman in the 1930`s and my aunt Mary Paxton also worked there, she became Leslie`s wife.
My cousin was Transport manager at Pumphrey’s, his name was Cliff Ashman, and my mother worked at Sheldon and Pearson and she was Ann Vincent
Is this the entrance to Pumphrey’s Admin section that once stood in Archer St? It appears to have been taken just prior to demolition, after Pumphrey’s had vacated this premises and the adjacent factory which had a large glazed ‘art-deco’ style frontage to Mandale Rd. The factory section now survives as a car-showroom. Above the pictured centre door was a decorative iron-bracket from which was hung three gilt-finish tapering ‘sugar loaves’ , these being the ancient guild-sign of a sugar refiner & merchant. The sign appears to have been removed in this photograph, I wonder who retained that?
Having researched a little further, the 3 sugar-loaves sign was actually that of a person trading as a Grocer. Presumably this sign had been salvaged by Messrs Sheldon and Pearson, purely for the fact that it represented the core ingredient of their confectionery trade? Or (like Joseph Rowntree of York) had they originally been trading as Grocers?
That building was the home of Sheldon Pearson! They made Sweets 😎
I have a patterned glass water jug engraved with the name ‘Amelia Sheldon’ who, I believe was a distant relative of mine on my mother’s side, and connected with the family who owned the sweet factory.
My mother’s maiden name was Hutton and her mother’s maiden name Blenkinsopp.