ex cavator Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Hi ! does anyone know why Mr Sharman had a rabbit on his bottles ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Unsure about rabbits .... but looks like they were there a while as a family business : Samuel Sharman, grocer and Italian warehouse, Spring House, Glossop Road (White's 1833), plus picturesheffield 1960's to 1970's, http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t00540&pos=8&action=zoom&id=31021 Anyone define "Italian warehouse" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Established 1820 it says on this awful picture ... needs squishing, the picture, not the carton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 The firm of George Sharman GLOSSOP ROAD CHARLES HERBERT HARVEY and ALBERT SAMPSON (Partners) THANK their numerous friends and customers for the kind sympathy shown to them on the sudden decease their esteemed partner, Lawrence Sampson. Sheffield Daily Telegraph 25 Apr 1911 The net gets cast a little wider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Samuel Sharman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 200 drums of figs is going to cause some "throughput" I would imagine ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Samuel Sharman. Business taken over by Samuels brother, Isaac, in April 1838. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Agent for Gunness, published, August 7 1841. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Proposed new shop fittings for George Sharman and Co., grocers, provisions and wine merchants, Glossop Road. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01695&pos=9&action=zoom&id=69396 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01698&pos=10&action=zoom&id=69554 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01699&pos=11&action=zoom&id=69555 Advertising Postcard for George Sharman and Co., grocers and wine and spirit merchants, Spring House, Nos. 231-237 Glossop Road. Postcard reads: How to cut a ham. Cut as indicated by red lines on diagram. Reverse of postcard lists some of the shops specialities. p01681 This image was originally part of the Tim Hale Photographic Collection. It was purchased at auction in September 2019 through donations from members of the public and a grant from the Graves Trust. George Sharman and Co., grocers and wine and spirit merchants, Spring House, Nos.231-237 Glossop Road at junction with Victoria Street. 1968. s39695 Photographer: P. Fletcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Plan of Land near Portobello agreed to be leased by Benjamin Withers to Samuel Sharman and others. 1835. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03848&pos=38&action=zoom&id=99542 Marked: Glossop Road; Withers Street; Withers Lane; Cavendish Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyno Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 On 29/10/2015 at 09:13, RichardB said: <snip> Anyone define "Italian warehouse" ? According to the Oxford English Dictionary: Quote A shop where Italian groceries, fruits, olive oil, etc. are sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 I seem to remember that a large pigs head made of plaster and painted was always in the shop window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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