Guest pete_s Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 This is the toy shop I remember as a kid (late forties). Wilson Gumpert in Fitzalan Square. Two floors packed with delights. WIlson Gumpert advertisement From The Star 1955 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 Slightly before my time - but I have to say that lorry looks quite unsafe lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deejayone Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 Wasn't it owned by Redgates too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrup Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 This is the toy shop I remember as a kid (late forties). Wilson Gumpert in Fitzalan Square. Two floors packed with delights. From The Star 1955 Hi pete_s I have found this on Picture Sheffield dated 1880 ( J. Wilson & Son, Toy Importers, Great Central Toy Warehouse, http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s19547&pos=2&action=zoom&id=22085 Could it be the start before a major partnership looks a big place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Wasn't it owned by Redgates too? According to this advert, they were in 1970 .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 According to this advert, they were in 1970 .. Link to post in Redgates Topic See main Redgates topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nimrod Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I remember Wilson Gumperts but had no idea they were part of Redgates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManoutotCity Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 On 24/05/2007 at 20:13, deejayone said: Wasn't it owned by Redgates too? Not when I recall it in the 1950s. It appeared ‘an independent’ and looked pretty ‘upmarket’ - akin to a London toy shop. All top quality brands - I recall the Britain’s farm, circus, Wildwest and military figure displays in particular - rows and rows of them all carefully arranged on shelves. A quintessential toy shop.... Redgates even in its repaired, post-War form more of a ‘store’ - though very good in its own way as others rightly affirm. I too, recall the very expensive kids car in the window and it’s pull to padding shoppers........and the very lifelike soft animal replicas - some almost full size - with price tags to go with em! Makes you wonder if they sold any and who to?! More great memories of a world long gone..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millhouses Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 My first Hornby clockwork train came from here - 1952. I was still playing with it 10 years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 On 22/09/2008 at 17:47, SteveHB said: According to this advert, they were in 1970 .. I suspect Redgates took the firm over. The name sounds like two people foundered the firm, expanded, then became a Limited Liability Company. Before being swallowed up by Redgates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down Under Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 I am a bit late joining this topic but my first recollections of Redgates are when I visited my grandma with my mum, she lived at the bottom of the Moor and we used to pass Redgates at the bottom of Ecclesall Road and there was a beautiful doll dressed in a turquoise dress which I finally got for Christmas, in 1972 when I had my first baby I had a beautiful Silver Cross high slung pram from Redgates and in 1980 I started work there two days a week on the switchboard until moving to Australia, they were very happy days there, such a pity it had to close, people came from out of Sheffield to shop there and when the Millennium Falcon was the rage the phones never stopped with people trying to find one as every toy shop had sold out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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