Ponytail Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Advertisement for Charles Butler's Unequalled Gingerbread - the amount sold during each Christmas Fair Week now exceeds five tons. 1886. Charles Butler, Manufacturing and Retail Confectioner, 60 Snig Hill and 11, 54 and 56 Fargate. y12414 Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: Local Pamphlets Vol, 127 No. 5 042 S. Advertisement for Charles Butler's Christmas Food - mint rock, seed loaf, plum loaf and gingerbread. 1886. y12413 y02145 Advertisement for Charles Butler's rich Wedding and Christmas cakes, plain and fancy biscuits, pure sweets, chocolate creams, fondants, bon-bons, flags, tree ornaments, pork pies, pastry and wines. y12416 Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: Local Pamphlets Vol, 127 No. 5 042 S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 7, 2023 Author Share Posted December 7, 2023 Mart and Chapman's New Fruits for Christmas. 1890. Mart & Chapman's, 16 Castle Street, 81 Broad Street, 440 & 441 Carbrook. y05905 Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library (ref. MP 1281 M) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 7, 2023 Author Share Posted December 7, 2023 Firvale Creamery, No. 513 Barnsley Road. Advertising "Xmas Spice Pigs" "Spice" meant Sweets when I was a child in the 1950's. u07474 This photograph was donated by Sheffield City Art Galleries, and was initially loaned to them by George Latham as part of an exhibition. The writing with the photograph refers to the fact that the shop had a good trade as a result of its proximity to the Workhouse/Hospital and the nearby Sunbeam Cinema. Tramps used to leave their few possessions at the shop before going to the Workhouse so that they wouldn't be confiscated by the staff there. They would redeem them the next day before carrying on with their journey. There were 100 jars of sweets displayed in mobile stands, and vending machines, jars of sweets and Walls Ice Cream in front of the shop. Mr Latham was known by the children as 'Mester Creamery Man'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 7, 2023 Author Share Posted December 7, 2023 Vendors of Hot Roasted Chestnuts. Fargate November 1992. s27482 1992. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s27481&pos=4&action=zoom&id=30229 Fargate. 13th November 2010. c03714 Fargate, December 2018. a04774 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 12 hours ago, Ponytail said: Mart and Chapman's New Fruits for Christmas. 1890. Mart & Chapman's, 16 Castle Street, 81 Broad Street, 440 & 441 Carbrook. y05905 Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library (ref. MP 1281 M) Puzzled by "Cosaques" curiosity got the better of me; it appears they were what we now call Crackers. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Christmas-Crackers/ I think Metz Fruits were Plums, there is a French Variety named Mirabelle de Metz. Hoping someone can enlighten me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Cossaque…..Borrowed from the French….literally Cossack Metz fruits…..Possibly “Mirabelle de Metz”…a variety of small plum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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