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Need help with information about Cockaynes Department Store in Sheffield. Where was Cockaynes based originally and what buildings did they open stores at in Sheffield?

Anyone who used to work at Cockaynes - what was it like? What staff do you remember?

Anyone got any memories of Cockaynes Department Store in Sheffield City Centre?

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20 minutes ago, Sheffield History said:

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Need help with information about Cockaynes Department Store in Sheffield. Where was Cockaynes based originally and what buildings did they open stores at in Sheffield?

Anyone who used to work at Cockaynes - what was it like? What staff do you remember?

Anyone got any memories of Cockaynes Department Store in Sheffield City Centre?

My great grandma was Sarah Ellen Cockayne but I don't think she ever worked in the store. 

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6 minutes ago, Jax Ayers said:

My great grandma was Sarah Ellen Cockayne but I don't think she ever worked in the store. 

 

Oooh interesting! 

Was she the owner of the company etc?

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They used to have a more than decent restaurant upstairs, ate there as a kid many a time when Mum took us shopping downtown. Was also next to the ABC cinema which could be handy!

Interesting because the picture shows it as being rebuilt in 1955, but I always thought it was rebuilt in the 60's unless I'm getting confused with Walsh's (later Rackham's and House of Fraser) across the road.

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On ‎01‎/‎09‎/‎2017 at 04:43, Leonr2z said:

They used to have a more than decent restaurant upstairs, ate there as a kid many a time when Mum took us shopping downtown. Was also next to the ABC cinema which could be handy!

Interesting because the picture shows it as being rebuilt in 1955, but I always thought it was rebuilt in the 60's unless I'm getting confused with Walsh's (later Rackham's and House of Fraser) across the road.

I started work in 1959 and used to cycle to work. Both Cockaynes and Walsh's were built by then. Walsh's used a building at Broomhill after their store was bombed until the new one was built.

 

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William Cockayne 1806-1884, his wife and 1 of his children are buried at Norton Cemetery, Derbyshire Ln. They lived at Lees House, Norton Lees. 

There are other members of the family nearby in same cemetery

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Cockayne's was one of the first stores to be rebuilt after the War ( apart from temporary structures) My sister-in-law worked there on the cosmetics counter from 1959 and she always talked fondly of her time there. The Cockayne family were engaged in several local retail businesses including the tobacco and wine merchants, White Favell and Cockayne...whose sherry "Hallamshire Cream" was really quite good.

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There is quite a good abbreviated history on the Picture Sheffield website, of which the following is a condensed version. T. B. and W. Cockaynes Limited. The original building on the site shown was completely destroyed, during the Sheffield Blitz of December 1940, although the company continued to trade, using various premises in the centre of Sheffield, and were able to reopen the first phase of a new store on the site of the original blitzed building, in 1949. The final phase of rebuilding was completed in 1955. In 1972, the business was taken over by Schofields (Leeds) Ltd, and the name changed to Schofields. Closure came in November 1982.

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I worked at Schofields , TV & Audio department from 1979 to 1981 , we were in the building that was attached later with the car park.I loved it there 

I left to work at Schofields in Leeds .

 

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On 02/09/2017 at 21:16, Meersbrook said:

William Cockayne 1806-1884, his wife and 1 of his children are buried at Norton Cemetery, Derbyshire Ln. They lived at Lees House, Norton Lees. 

There are other members of the family nearby in same cemetery

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Does anyone know if this, or any other ‘William’ within the Cockayne Family was  involved in the brewing business as a man by that name owned a country house in Carlton in Coverdale up here in North Yorkshire and definitely had brewing connections  (rather than furniture/ furnishings which as a former Sheffielder , I well know, that grand old shop on Angel St was well noted for?

(It’s said that this ‘William Cockayne had a middle name of ‘Stuart’)

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More info on the brewing Cockaynes here:

On 1st September 1909 James Lomax Cockayne, the eldest son of George T. Cockayne of Chaseley, brewer of Sheffield, and Coverdale Lodge, North Yorks, married Ruby Anderson, youngest daughter of Alexander Anderson of Tower House, Dore at St Johns church, Abbeydale.  James was the grandson of the first James Lomax Cockayne (born 1815 Ashford, Derbyshire). James II was managing partner of the Sheffield firm of White, Favell and Cockayne, wine and cigar importers of Church street.  He was known as the Sheffield John Bull (see photo)

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That’s very interesting indeed Edmund and much appreciated . IF you’re saying that this was another branch of the same Sheffield  (Cockayne) business family  (I confess that I hadn’t a clue about them as brewers  ...I  thought they did just general department store stuff). The forenames don’t quite tie up but Im sure it’s the same family  as the country home was indeed, Coverdale Lodge...maybe several members in various ventures? I stumbled on this, researching something quite different, a WW1 ‘Pals’ type Army Battalion, The Yeoman Rifles, a member of which, was apparently a servant at Coverdale Lodge...the home of ‘William Stuart Cockayne’ a Sheffield brewer’, before WW1.

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Thomas Bagshawe & William Cockayne, sons of William Cockayne, flax dresser opened a draper's shop 1 Angel Street 1829.

Copy of the handbill advertising the opening in 1829.

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arc00279  From a souvenir menu at the Banquet & Ball, Cutlers Hall to celebrate the centenary 1929

 

Robson's Directory 1839.

Cockayne, T. B. W & Co., 25 Angel Street, silk mercer &etc. (directory does have 25 as the number) 

Cockayne, Wm., 24 Angel Street, rope maker & flax & hemp merchant. 

 

Whites Directory 1849.

Cockayne, TB & W, linen & woollen drapers &etc. 1 Angel Street. 

Cockayne, Thos. Bagshawe, h. Gatefield House, Abbeydale Road. 

Cockayne, Wm. sen., gentleman, Clarkson Street. 

Cockayne, Wm. jun., h. Abbeydale House. 

Also. Cockayne, James Lomax, vict., Tuscan Tavern, 17 St. Thomas Street. 

 

Whites Directory 1852.

Cockayne, TB & W, linen & woollen draper's &etc., 1 Angel Street. 

Cockayne, Thomas Bagshawe, draper, h. Gatefield House, Abbeydale Road. 

Cockayne, William sen., gentleman, Westbank, Clarkeson Street. 

Cockayne, William jun., draper h. Norton Lees. 

Also. Cockayne, James Lomax, victualler, Tuscan Tavern, 17 St. Thomas Street

 

Whites Directory 1856,

Cockayne, TB & W.,  linen and woollen draper's and mercers &etc., 1Angel Street

Cockayne, Thomas Bagshawe, draper, h. Gatefield House, Abbeydale Road. 

Cockayne, Wm.draper, h. Norton Lees. 

Cockayne, Mrs. W. & Mr. Henry. h. Westbank, Clarkson Street. 

Also. Cockayne, James Lomax, brewer, Owlerton Brewery. 

 

Whites Directory 1862.

Cockayne, TB & W., linen, woollen, draper's, silk mercers, hosier, and carpet warehouse, 1 Angel Street. 

Cockayne, Thomas Bagshawe, draper & etc., (Cockayne, TB & W) h. 1 Angel Street. 

Cockayne, Wm. jun, draper & etc.(Cockayne, TB & W) h. Sandon Place. 

Also. Cockayne, James Lomax, brewer, Owlerton Brewery. 

 

Whites Directory 1879.

Cockayne, Bagshawe, merchant and manufacturer. (Joseph Fenton & Sons, steel, files, knives, etc, Sykes Works, Matilda Street, Eyre St. & Bridge St.) h Thorpe House, Norton Lees. 

Cockayne, Mrs. Eleanor, h. Gatefield House, Abbeydale Road. 

Cockayne, Francis Henry, merchant and manufacturer, (Long, Hawksley & Co. knife, razors, scissors, files, saws &etc, Hallamshire Works, 220 Rockingham Street) h. Gatefield House, Abbeydale Road. 

Cockayne, George Thomas, (J. L. C) h. 625, Penistone Road. 

Cockayne, Mr. Henry, h West Bank, 9 Clarkson Street. 

Cockayne, J L, brewer, Owlerton Brewer, Capel Street. 

Cockayne, John William, mert, h. Gatefield House, Abbeydale Road. 

Cockayne, Mrs. Jane, 18 Capel Street. 

Cockayne, TB & W., silk mercers, linen draper's, cabinet makers, general house furnishers, 1-13 Angel Street

Cockayne, Thomas Bagshawe (TB & W) h. Gatefield house, Abbeydale Road

Cockayne, William, (TB& W) h. Norton Lees. 

Cockayne, William James ( J L C) h. 18 Capel Street. 

 

The Founders. 

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Advertisements from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1899. 

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Roll of Honour WWI

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The Directors 1919

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Facade to replicate original front to celebrate 104th year

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Albion Lorries parked in front of the store,  Angel Street. 1920's

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Personnel of the Transport Department in front of a Cockaynes Lorry on Psalter Lane. 1920's

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1929

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Directors 1929

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Records of Schofields (Yorkshire) Ltd. Angel Street, formerly T.B & W Cockayne Ltd. 

Records cover 1872-1977

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8c047d37-6e77-4cb3-a9af-61d682f19b7d

Records deposited with Sheffield Archives. Nov/Dec 1982. 

 

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 T B & W. Cockayne, Cover of Reopening Souvenir Brochure. 1949

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Artists Impression of the Bomb Damage. 

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Clearing & Excavating the Bomb Damaged Site. October 1946.

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Building the New Store, October 1947

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The Store was destroyed together with many of the Companies Records during the Sheffield Blitz December 1940. 

The company continued to trade, utilizing various premises in the centre of Sheffield, and were able to reopen the first phase, the first two floors (basement and ground floor) of the new store in 1949 - the remainder of the building was completed in 1955. 

From T. B. and W. Cockayne, Re-opening souvenir brochure, 1949. Original at Sheffield Archives SY492/B/11.

Construction of the second phase of the new store. 

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Interior of T B &W. Cockayne, Angel Street. 

Main Staircase and lifts serving all floors. 1909. 

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Palm Lounge 1909. 

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Restaurant 1909. 

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Art, Needlework and Foreign Fancy Dept. 1919. 

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Ground Floor 1919. 

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TB & W Cockayne Football Team 1910.

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Mr. J J Cockayne, managing director 1960's

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Queen Mary (1867-1953) inspecting a 1851 Wedding Dress. 

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Sheffield Flood Claim:

Joseph Deakin, manufacturer, Burrow Lee; James Lomax Cockayne, brewer, Spring Street, Owlerton & Benjamin Hudson, solicitor, Glossop Road & North Church Street. 

As Trustees of the Burrow Lee Freehold Building Society, damage done to roads & sewers, Borough Road, Park View Road & Burnell Road. 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=7-6176

 

 

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