Ponytail Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Joseph Johnson, Glass and China Rooms, Nos. 61 & 63 Fargate. Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford 1862. Joseph Johnson's property at the junction of Fargate and Pepper Alley https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y01580&pos=4&action=zoom&id=48616 Plan of freehold property of Ellis Eyre, Fargate also showing Joseph Johnson's property. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04104&pos=3&action=zoom&id=145710 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, Ponytail said: Joseph Johnson, Glass and China Rooms, Nos. 61 & 63 Fargate. Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford 1862. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y01580&pos=4&action=zoom&id=48616 The small alley on the left is Pepper Alley part of which is still with us , it runs along the right hand side of the Upper Chapel on Norfolk Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 At one of the Cutlers' Feasts during the 1840's, three special singers were engaged: Messrs Dyson, Straw and Pratt. During the speeches they had "refreshers" and by the time they were dispensed with at nearly midnight, they were well tipsy. When they got to Johnson's Glass and China shop, above the Catholic church, George Straw, who was very merry, said that he'd have a lark with old Joseph Johnson. He put his back to the shop's shutters and his banging caused the glass and crockery to fall from the window shelves. Straw kept at it, and Johnson put his head out of the chamber window and shouted "Watch!". The three jolly singers then ran away, but Straw ran straight into a watchman's arms. However he said to the watchman "Run, God bless you, run, there's a man murdering a woman! Run while I fetch somebody else". The watchman let Straw go and he was never found out. George Straw died on 29th March 1843 aged 38 "for many years an efficient member of the Sheffield Choral Society". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 Robson's Directory 1839 Johnson, Joseph, 61 & 63 Fargate, glass and china rooms. Whites Directory 1849 Johnson, Joseph, glass, china and earthenware dealer and filter manufacturer, 61 Fargate. Whites Directory 1852 Johnson, Joseph, glass, china, earthenware dealer & filter manufacturer, 61 & 63 Fargate. Whites Directory 1856 Johnson, Joseph, glass, china, earthenware, table lamp & etc. dealer and improved water filter mnfr., 61 and 63 Fargate, h. Brooklyn Mount, Heeley. Whites Directory 1862 Johnson, Joseph, china, Glass, earthenware, table lamp & etc., dlr. and mnfr of water filters, 61 and 63 Fargate, h. Albert Road, Heeley. Whites Directory 1879 61-65 Fargate, Hartley Bros., tailors and woollen drapers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 Advertisement from Whites Directory 1852. Joseph Johnson, manufacturer of the Improved Water Filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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