SteveHB Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Was this Sheffields first Coffee House? https://goo.gl/maps/Ljtta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Highfield Cocoa & Coffee House, Francis Simmon, manager, London Road. 1879 directory. Opened: 1877. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Was this Sheffields first Coffee House? Good question - where does it fit in amongst these dates: First coffee house in: Damascus 1530, Venice 1629, Oxford and London 1652, Angel Inn Sheffield 1765, George Street Sheffield Jan 9th 1794 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Good question - where does it fit in amongst these dates: First coffee house in: Damascus 1530, Venice 1629, Oxford and London 1652, Angel Inn Sheffield 1765, George Street Sheffield Jan 9th 1794 Thanks Edmund. Looks like this article is incorrect then. "Sheffield"s First Coffee House. Highfield House was started by Sir Frederick Mappin in 1877 and closed in 1908" (Courtesy of John Hague). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 The Sheffield Workmen’s Cocoa and Coffee House, Highfield was opened at 8pm on Wedensday 11th April 1877, by Mr Mundella MP. It was seen as an alternative to public houses for the working man, rather than a meeting place for the influential, as the earlier coffee houses were. On the ground floor the coffee room was 38 feet by 22 feet, the reading room 25 feet by 22 feet, with the bar for service and kitchen at the rear. On the upper floor was a reading room 88 feet by 20 feet and a billiard room 25 feet by 86 feet, but the space could be opened up completely for lectures etc. The billiards licence was granted to Francis Simmons the manager on 6th September. The coffee room was floored with red tiles and seats and small round tables with marble tops were supplied. At the rear of the building was a small court, for skittles. The building contractor was John Pearson, the architects Messrs. Hadfield and Son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Blacksmiths Arms, Fulwood Rd In 1888, the licence lapsed. The Reverend J.H. Hewlett, Vicar of Fulwood, with the assistance of the Church of England Temperance Society had opened a small coffee house or room at the last house on the left-hand side at the bottom of Brookhouse Hill. A hook from which in winter a lamp hung to light the entrance can still be seen. It was proposed that the inn’s lapsed licence be surrendered, and on the 30th July 1888 it reopened as a Temperance Inn, also known as the Coffee House, which it remained until 1936. Present at the opening was the Mayor of Sheffield, Alderman William J Clegg, who became chairman of the British Temperance League and a leading member of the national movement. It closed in 1936 and became a private house.(Can't find a date for the original coffee house.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 My ancestor kept a Temperance Hotel & Coffee House in Change Alley 1837/42. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 There's a planning application to demolish this and build a block of flats. Hallamshire Historic Buildings are objecting to this and so can you. Details in the link - https://www.hhbs.org.uk/2022/12/16/save-mappins-coffee-house/?fbclid=IwAR0ppRHWaj39KcTaOjO2hDc3rjF02qhQ8RNUeFW5DA_miINWGQ_z1qWx56s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rover1949 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 There is also an article about it in Private Eye this month. I must have driven past it hundreds of times but never noticed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House. https://sheffielder.net/2022/12/22/highfield-cocoa-and-coffee-house/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeo Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 A report has been published by Historic England recording their decision to not list the building. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=7&uid=1485152 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Fair Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 In 1839, my 3xGrandfather ran the "New London Coffee Rooms" at 7 Castle Fold before emigrating to Jacksonville, Illinois in 1841. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Note munbering discrepancy - Trade Directories stae he's at No.7, his adverts state No.4. Samuel had married Jane Mimmack of Doddington near Lincoln on 24th May 1836 at Doddington, and was already running the cofee house at that time. In August 1835 No 4 Castle Folds had been Robert Coopers perfume shop and hairdressers (he also had premises at Watson's Walk), and he was still there in August 1837, so presumably shared the premises with the coffee house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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