Stuart & Smith, Ironfounders, Stove Grate Manufacturers, Roscoe Place

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Stuart & Smith, Ironfounders, Roscoe Place. 

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862

Partnership between Richard Stuart & John Jobson Smith, stove grate manufacturers, Roscoe Place dissolved 1853. Smith carrying on the business. 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Stuart_and_Smith

 

I'm sure everyone hoped the stove grate purchased from Stuart and Smith created a "Madeira climate in Sheffield" Are there any in existence? 

 

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Roscoe Works/Roscoe Place. 

Not sure if this is the Works Stuart & Smith operated their business from? 

Sale Plan Roscoe Works known as Roscoe Place 13th November 1888

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[madannie77]

Whites 1862 Directory:

Infirmary Road: 299 Stuart & Smith, ironfndr.

The numbering of properties on Infirmary Road was a continuation of SHalesmoor numbering at that time: 299 is the first listed property on Infirmary Road (Shalesmoor ending at 297).

Whites 1879 Directory:

Infirmary Road: Stuart & Smith, stove & grate mfrs 
Barber Benj. (Stuart & Smith) 
Sylvester Thos. (Stuart & Smith)

Again the first property listed for Infirmary Road, between Shalesmoor and Henry Street.

I have a gap in the directories until 1901, by which time the land between Shalesmoor and Henry Street was occupied by commercial premises.

 

 

[Edmund]

Benjamin Barber, one of the partners in Stuart & Smith, died in June 1883. The works was placed under deed of assignment and put up for auction. The rival firm Hoole & Co. purchased Stuart & Smith and removed it to Green Lane. By 1890 the Roscoe Works site had been redeveloped and the Public Benefit Boot Company had opened a branch there.

[Roger Arevalo]

It's interesting they used the term 'Madeira climate' in 1862. I'd have thought that'd be a phrase of the jet age after people started going there regularly.

[Edmund]

"Madeira climate" was a well known phrase back in the 1830's.  The man in the street was aware of Madeira wine  and possibly the fact the warm temperatures were needed to produce it. As well as a limited number of people travelling for the health benefit (less the disbenefit of the sea journey there), Madeira was a staging post for troops going to the West Indies and emigrants going to, for example, Australia.  Possibly transported prisoners didn't get the benefit of a short break, before arriving in Botany Bay.

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From Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862

 

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Whites Directory 1849

Smith, John Jobson, stove grate &etc. mfr. (Stuart & Smith) h. Pisgah House. 

Stuart & Smith, stove grate &etc. manufacturers, iron and brass founders and merchants, Roscoe Place. 

Stuart, Richard, stove grate &etc. manufacturer, h. Roscoe Place. 

 

Whites Directory 1852

Smith, John Jobson Esq. JP. stove grate manufacturer, (Stuart & Smith) h. Pisgah House. 

Stuart, Richard, stove grate &etc.  manufacturer, h. Roscoe Place. 

Stuart & Smith, stove grate &etc. and founders and merchants. 

 

Whites Directory 1856

Smith, John Jobson Esq. JP, stove grate mfr. (Stuart & Smith) h. Portobello, 4 Gell Street. 

Stuart & Smith, stove grate and fender mnfr. &etc. Roscoe Place. 

 

Whites Directory 1862

Smith, John Jobson Esq. JP., stove grate &.etc, (Stuart & Smith) h. Portobello House, Gell Street. 

Stuart & Smith, merchants and mnfrs. of stove grates, fire irons, fenders &etc. and iron and brass founders, Roscoe Place, 299 Infirmary Road. 

 

Whites Directory 1879

Smith, John Jobson Esq. JP (Exors of) Grange Cliffe, Button Hill, Ecclesall. 

Stuart & Smith, stove grate mnfrs., Roscoe Place, Infirmary Road. 

 

Local Studies Obit Index Sheffield Telegraph. 

John Jobson Smith, of Grange Cliffe, Ecclesall  9th September 1878