Eccles family

[brady.ian@aol.com]

Hi, I'm looking for any information on the Eccles family who worked and lived in the Attercliffe/Tinsley area about 1930s onward.

[Edmund]

Here's a photo of Harry Eccles in 1925:

from picturesheffield - Harry Eccles

Harry was born at Bishopthorpe just south of York in 1878. He married widow Lilian Rowley in 1909 at Leeds, and their daughter Muriel was born the next year.  In 1911 they were running the Red Lion pub in Wetherby and Lilian was pregnant with their son, also to be named Harry. By 1914 the family was in Sheffield at Burgoyne road - Harry was fined at Rotherham for having no lights on his motorcycle (10 shillings) and a further 10 shillings because it was not registered.

By the census in 1921 the family was at 21 Hawksworth road, Hilltop, from where in 1923 Harry was advertising the sale or exchange of his Douglas motorcycle combination. The advertising postcard above was around in 1925 advertising:  Eccles and Co., No. 21 Hawksworth Road for 8, 10 and 12 ton rollers for hire".  In 1928 he was selling a Douglas, recently overhauled by the manufacturer at a cost of 24s, the address of both Burgoyne road and Hawksworth road being provided.

From 1925 to 1931 he ran a series of newspaper advertisements seeking a 3 bedroom house with a large yard suitable for engines.   By December 1932  his newspaper advert as a Road Rolling and Threshing Contractor gave his address as 326 Sheffield road.  Kelly's 1933 Directory shows him at 324 Sheffield Road, Tinsley, a road rolling contractor, telephone Attercliffe 41630. (Note the house number discrepancy).

[brady.ian@aol.com]

Thank you so much for this amazing photo and the researched detail. I have been trying to find details of Harry for years. This will now help solve a family mystery, all the details match exactly even down to the address, so happy.