Ponytail Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Joseph Pickering, polishing paste manufacturer, No. 22 Mowbray Street. Successor to the late John Needham who originally founded the company in Harvest Lane 1824. Needhams Polishing Paste Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford 1862. Two Advertisements for Needhams Polishing Paste, Melville Directory 1859 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y03272&pos=17&action=zoom&id=50160 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y03273&pos=18&action=zoom&id=50161 https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Joseph_Pickering_and_Sons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6, 2023 Author Share Posted January 6, 2023 Sheffield Flood Claim. Joseph Pickering, polishing paste manufacturer, Mowbray Street. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=2-1587 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6, 2023 Author Share Posted January 6, 2023 Link to Blanco Spit and Polish, brief history of the family and business. https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/19390-bacon-beer-blanco/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6, 2023 Author Share Posted January 6, 2023 Joseph Pickering and Sons Ltd., Albyn Works, Burton Road, Neepsend Built 1875 Photograph dated 13 May 1978 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s38187&pos=11&action=zoom&id=115305 Photographs dated 27 May 2004 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v01954&pos=1&action=zoom&id=43290 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v01955&pos=2&action=zoom&id=43291 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v01956&pos=19&action=zoom&id=43292 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 In 1900 Joseph Pickering merged his polish manufacturing business with that of his son in law, Arthur Truelove a tin and cardboard box maker. The packaging side of the business was a success resulting in a new factory being built 1908 (architect C & CME Hadfield) on Moore Street. Flat roofed, fireproof construction of concrete and steel, faced with terracotta tiles. `Spectacular splayed entrance with great variety of different mouldings over the doorway, elaborate cornices, decorated spandrels and upper windows deeply inset behind arcading. " Information from Pevsners Architectural Guide to Sheffield, Ruth Harman and John Minnis. Now a listed building. Photographs dated 1973 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s44179&pos=13&action=zoom&id=128044 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s44180&pos=14&action=zoom&id=128045 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s44178&pos=12&action=zoom&id=128043 1979 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v03444&pos=10&action=zoom&id=44698 1984 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t01102&pos=3&action=zoom&id=31561 1994 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s40672&pos=6&action=zoom&id=119927 Photograph dated 1996 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s40675&pos=7&action=zoom&id=119930 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s40676&pos=8&action=zoom&id=119931 Advertisement 1939, Joseph Pickering & Sons Ltd., Moore Street https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09984&pos=15&action=zoom&id=104974 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 The Joseph Pickering & Sons Story Blanco and Bull https://www.blancoandbull.com/the-joseph-pickering-sons-story/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 Joseph Pickering and Sons, Blanco and Bull, the end of an era https://www.blancoandbull.com/the-end-of-an-era/ Companies House https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00068068/officers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 Joseph Pickering & Sons, package design image and before and after of the Moore Street building. https://easyontheeye2.wordpress.com/packaging/joseph-pickering/ Detail of Doorway Joseph Pickering & Sons, Moore Street. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ornate-entrance-to-the-former-joseph-pickering-and-sons-which-was-86583666.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 Albyn Works Story https://www.albynworks.co.uk/the-albyn-works-story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 Blanco at the Imperial War museum https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30084178 Tales from the Supply Depot. Collecting British Empire Militaria. https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2016/06/19/kg3-pickerings-webbing-renovator/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 Needhams Polishing Paste Advertisement 1886 Joseph Pickering & Sons Advertisement about 1890 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 Advertisement from Whites Directory 1879 Whites Directory 1849 Pickering, Joseph, ink blacking and polishing paste mfr, 128 Harvest Lane Whites Directory 1852 Pickering, Joseph (late Needham) polishing paste and furniture composition manufacturer, 128 Harvest Lane. Whites Directory 1862 Pickering, Joseph, (successor to late J Needham), polishing paste, furniture's composition and plate powder manufacturer, Mowbray Street, h. Parkwood Springs. Whites Directory 1879 Pickering, John Needham, (Joseph & Son) h. The Grove, Howard Road and 83 Hadfield Street. Pickering, Joseph, (Joseph & Son) h. Dunedin Villa, St. Andrews Road, Sharrow. Pickering, Joseph & Son, manufacturers of polishing paste, furniture polish etc, Albyn Works, Burton Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 My Dad ,home on leave from the RAF ,had a device with which he “blancoed” his tunic uniform buttons. Never thought that our City would have a connection with the substance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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