Mappin and Webb

[RichardB]

History

Founded in 1774 by Jonathan Mappin, Mappin & Webb is one of the UK's leading retailers of fine jewellery and silverware. Today, it is renowned for combining timeless craftsmanship with superior quality and contemporary design to produce exquisite jewellery, elegant silverware, watches and glassware.

Jonathan Mappin opened his first small silversmith workshop in Sheffield in 1774 and the following year the Mappin mark was entered at the assay office. Over the next fifteen years Jonathan Mappin's reputation for producing high quality silver spread throughout Sheffield. From these humble beginnings the business grew steadily and soon the next generation were expanding the business further.

The first store to be opened in London was in 1849 at 17 Fore Street and was soon followed by stores in Moorgate and King William Street. In 1858, following rapid expansion of the Sheffield factory, John Newton Mappin invited his brother-in-law, George Webb to join him in the business. The first association of Mappin & Webb was forged.

Mappin & Webb's reputation spread as the business became a leading name within its field. A testament to its success came in 1897 with the granting of Royal Warrants. Today Mappin & Webb is silversmith to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and to His Royal Highness Prince Charles.

Source : http://mappin-and-webb.co.uk/ourhistory.html

[Guest carlie167]

Just sorting through some old pictures and came across this one of Mappin and Webb and their closing down sale.

Maybe someone is interested.

OOPS!! forgot to upload photo :rolleyes:

[Ponytail]

On 22/05/2007 at 09:50, RichardB said:

History

 

Founded in 1774 by Jonathan Mappin, Mappin & Webb is one of the UK's leading retailers of fine jewellery and silverware. Today, it is renowned for combining timeless craftsmanship with superior quality and contemporary design to produce exquisite jewellery, elegant silverware, watches and glassware.

 

Jonathan Mappin opened his first small silversmith workshop in Sheffield in 1774 and the following year the Mappin mark was entered at the assay office. Over the next fifteen years Jonathan Mappin's reputation for producing high quality silver spread throughout Sheffield. From these humble beginnings the business grew steadily and soon the next generation were expanding the business further.

 

The first store to be opened in London was in 1849 at 17 Fore Street and was soon followed by stores in Moorgate and King William Street. In 1858, following rapid expansion of the Sheffield factory, John Newton Mappin invited his brother-in-law, George Webb to join him in the business. The first association of Mappin & Webb was forged.

 

Mappin & Webb's reputation spread as the business became a leading name within its field. A testament to its success came in 1897 with the granting of Royal Warrants. Today Mappin & Webb is silversmith to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and to His Royal Highness Prince Charles.

 

Source : http://mappin-and-webb.co.uk/ourhistory.html

 Link restored.  Mappin and Webb our history

https://www.mappinandwebb.com/our-history

[tozzin]

Didn’t Jonathan’s brother start Mappins Brewery in Rotherham ?

[Ponytail]

Joseph Mappin, (late Arundel & Mappin) manufacturer of fine cutlery etc., Norfolk Street.

Extract from The Sheffield Independent 18th February 1839.

From an Advertisement Rodgers Directory 1839. 

 

Rodgers Directory 1839.

Mappin, J, 16 Mulberry Street, pen knife, pocket knife and sportsman's knife and razor manufacturer. 

 

https://www.hawleysheffieldknives.com/n-fulldetails.php?val=w&kel=380

 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Mappin_and_Webb

 

Advertisement Whites Directory 1879

Mappin & Webb, manufacturers of silver, electro silver plate and cutlery, dressing cases, dressing bags &etc., Royal cutlery and silver plate manufrs. and showroom, 179-181, Norfolk Street. Edwin Fell, manager.

London showroom, 76-8 Oxford Street, Shipping Depot, Mansion House Buildings, City, E.C.

Fell, Edwin, manager, 225 Victoria Road, Heeley. 

 

[tozzin]

THE MAPPIN ART GALLERY

 

The Mappin Art Gallery is situated along side the Weston Park Museum in Weston Park itself, Weston Park was the first municipal park in the city and was developed from the grounds of Weston Hall, which the Sheffield Corporation purchased for £15,750 following the death of its owners, Eliza and Anne Harrison. The hall itself was converted into the Sheffield City Museum Robert Marnock was commissioned to design the park in 1873. New terra cotta pillared entrances were established at Winter Street and Western Bank using designs by Godfrey Sykes. The original lake from Weston Hall was extended and redesigned and the Ebenezer Elliott memorial statue was moved to the park from its original place in Market Place. A memorial to Godfrey Sykes was also erected in 1875 during the construction of the park, consisting of an 8 metre high Terra Cotta column designed by James Gamble, one of Sykes's pupils. It depicts youth, maturity and old age.
The park was opened to the public on Monday 6 September 1875 with the following day's Sheffield Daily Telegraph reporting: "The weather was fine. The Park looked in its gayest Summer dress. The walks were freshly gravelled, the flower beds were trim and well ordered." In 1895 the South West gates were erected on Western Bank close to the newly constructed Mappin Art Gallery. This became the park's main entrance and was built primarily so affluent visitors could drive their carriages right up to the gallery's door. The bandstand was added around 1900. It was designed by the Sheffield architects Flockton and Gibbs and constructed at a foundry in Glasgow. It was one of a pair, the other being placed in Hillsborough Park, but this has since been demolished. The bandstand was in use until the mid-1970s and many well-known bands have played there, including the Black Dyke Band and the Coldstream Guards Band; it has also staged several rock concerts there. The restored bandstand is now an approved Civil Wedding venue.
The Art Gallery was named after its benefactor, Mr John Newton Mappin (1800–1883) who was a wealthy local brewer, he was also one of two sons of Mr Joseph Mappin, who’s name is synonymous with quality Cutlery and Silverware and was the chief partner in the Sheffield firm Mappin & Webb.  When John Newton Mappin died, he bequeathed £15,000 and his collection of 153 paintings to his nephews, J. Y. Cowlishaw, Frederick Thorpe Mappin and F. A. Colley. They were instructed to give the paintings to the city five years after his death, and that the paintings should be housed in a dedicated art gallery. The Mappin Gallery opened in 1887 as the first public art gallery in Sheffield. Frederick Thorpe Mappin was also an avid art collector, and gave a number of his own paintings to The Mappin Gallery over the following years.
The Mappin Gallery proved hugely popular and attracted around 350,000 visitors annually for 15 years. It provided one of the only cultural experiences in the city at that time and was accessible to everyone. It opened on a Sunday to give people who worked during the week a chance to visit, and more importantly, admission was free. Mappin’s Deed of Trust specifically stated that the Gallery was to be used for the ‘exhibition of pictures and works of art to be open to the public in perpetuity and without any change.’ it’s a shame its not appreciated as it was up to the 1930s.
John Newton Mappin’s taste was for the historical and genre painters of his day, and he mainly purchased work by popular and established Victorian artists. He often acquired contemporary paintings from the Royal Academy summer exhibitions and also from studio sales of deceased artists such as Sir Edwin Henry Landseer. 
The Mappin’s Brewery was situated near Chantry Bridge. It occupied the site that is now the NHS Drop-In Centre near Bailey House, I have seen a property called the Malthouse which is on Chapel Road or Chapel Walk across the road which was obviously part of the brewery. 
I have found odd snippets of information in various places which seems to add up to the following facts. In the 19th century John Newton Mappin had a very successful brewery. He was born in Sheffield, the son of a fruit knife maker and engraver, and made his fortune from brewing. When he died in 1884 he left £15,000 pounds and his art collection of more than 170 pictures to establish the Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield. Was this our Mappin? Well it is not a common surname being largely confined to the Sheffield area so I think it very likely, so the Mappin’s Masbrough Brewery was part of a much larger empire. In 1914 Mappin’s Masbrough won a Five Guinea cup in the class for 'stouts of any gravity' at The Brewing Industry International Awards. Mappin’s sold out to Stones in 1954, who sold out to Bass in 1968. 
Strangely enough this piece on the Gallery, Museum and Park re-awakens some old memories for me, it was in the Park I first met Mr Dawson & Mr Sorsby, sadly they were sucking worms for change, I did take pity on the poor unfortunates and secured posts for them working as Attendants in the Museum but they were discharged after a few months as visitors thought they were exhibits plus the fact they frightened children and dogs!
Between 1934 and 1937 local businessman and philanthropist J G Graves funded a major redevelopment of what was to be known as the Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery. The project saw the remaining original parts of Weston House demolished and rebuilt, as well as the addition of a first floor extension for the art gallery. In December 1940 the Mappin Art Gallery suffered a direct hit in the Sheffield Blitz, destroying a significant part of the building and damaging much of the rest. During the 1950s and 1960s the City Museum remained open to the public, whilst the Mappin Art Gallery was left in its partially demolished state after the structure had been made safe. In 1965 funding for the rebuilding of the art gallery was made available. Under direction of Lewis Womersley (also responsible for the Park Hill housing estate), Sheffield City Council architects saw the three galleries which best survived the bombing restored to their original design, whilst the original main gallery and the adjacent gallery were rebuilt as a combined single modern space.
Back to the man, when John Mappin died in 1883 at the grand age of 82, he was buried in All Saints graveyard Ecclesall, a truly generous man to Sheffield and its people, his house the Birchlands stood on Fulwood Road but it was demolished to build the Hallam Tower Hotel which in turn is now due for demolition, the Lodge that stood at the gates to the entrance to Birchlands still stands, sadly missing the great house.

 

 

The Queens Cutlery factory stood where the General Post Office stood and sided down Bakers Hill to Pond Street.

 

 

Sir Frederick Thorpe Mappin.

 

John Newton Mappin.

 

Mappin's Brewery yard