Charles Dunnell; Charles Dunhill & King, coach proprietors.

[Ponytail]

Charles Dunnell, omnibus and cab proprietor, 61 West Street. 

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

There are two different spellings Dunhill in the first years then Dunnill. 

Whites Directory 1849. 

Dunhill & King, coach proprietors, 4 Haymarket and 14 Change Alley. 

Dunhill, Charles, coach proprietor, h. 17 Occupation Road. 

King, William, h. 171 South Street, Park. 

 

Timetable from Whites Directory 1849. 

 

Whites Directory 1852. 

Dunhill & King, coach owners, Change Alley. 

Dunhill, Charles, h. 30 Occupation Road. 

King, William, coach proprietor, (Dunhill & King) h. 171 South Street, Park. 

 

County Court Chronicle August 1854. 

Sheffield 25th May 1854, before William Walker Esq., Haigh v King and Dunhill. Horse Dealing Tricks. 

Plaintiff, Mr. Joseph Haigh, horse dealer of Manchester and defendants Mr. William King and Mr. Charles Dunhill coach proprietors of Sheffield. 

 

 

The Law Times 1854, from the London Gazette September 1st 1854. 

Partnerships Dissolved, June 24th 1854. Dunnill C. & King W., coach proprietors, Sheffield. 

 

Whites Directory 1856. 

Dunhill, Charles, coach proprietor, 29 Spital Hill. 

King, Wm, coach proprietor, 14 Change Alley, h. 153 Ecclesall Road. 

 

Timetable from Whites Directory 1856. 

 

 

Advertisement Whites Directory 1862. 

Whites Directory 1862. 

Dunnill, Charles, coach, cab, funeral hearse and carriage proprietor, 81 West Street. 

King, Mr. William, 120 Duke Street, Park. 

 

Whites Directory 1879. 

Dunnill, Mr. Charles, 72 Rock Street. 

 

Local Studies, Sheffield Telegraph Obituary List. 

Dunnill, C  3rd September 1884. 

 

 

[Edmund]

Charles Dunnill was born in Wakefield, and started his career in 1824 driving the coach between Wakefield and Hull.  His next route was York to London, once each way, every week. After a few years of that he drove the coach between Sheffield and Manchester. In 1843 he was one of the partners of Howe, King, Dunhill, Oates, Barraclough, Robinson, Watson and Ostcliffe, who operated a complex network connecting with Liverpool and Manchester via Glossop railway station, and south eastwards towards Lincolnshire.  

He co-owned a coach with William Bradley the brewer, which he regularly drove on the Leeds to London route. When the SA&MR railway line was partially completed he used to meet the passengers at Woodhead and bring them the rest of the way. After the line was finished, he ran his own coach daily to Mansfield and back, changing horses at Chesterfield.

In 1862 he bought the business of Peter Collis, cab proprieor, West street, the largest such business in Sheffield.  The business was later broken up and Mr Dunhill retired for about a year. In 1867 he went into partnership with Ezra Hounsfield, cab proprietor, Waingate where he remained until 1882 when the Sheffield Carriage Company was formed and he retired completely.