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mafiamuma
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Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« on: Wednesday 12 August 09 17:41 UTC (UK) »
Hello This is my first time using this forum.. please can someone help me to find any information or old pictures of Adnitts departement store in drapery.northants.
My grt grt grt uncle william buckley used to be a draper and had a shop in nantwich high street.his son william born 1867?nantwich followed in his fathers footsteps and took up an apprentaship with Adnitts, then became an assistant draper..
i have only found two pictures which dont show numbers of the road or the shops very clearly...
if you can help me please let me know
thankin you all in advance
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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 12 August 09 18:27 UTC (UK) »
  Hi, Debenhams is now where Adnitts used to be in the Drapery ,try the Record office or the Chronicle and Echo to see what they have in their archives
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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 12 August 09 21:46 UTC (UK) »
The attached picture shows"The Drapery".  Debenhams is the more modern building on the right.  If I remember correctly it was rebuilt during the 1950s.  Prior to that it was in the same style as the other buildings.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1373243

You can get another similar image but closer to the store by using Google image for

Northampton Drapery Debenhams

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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 13 August 09 18:24 UTC (UK) »
Evening Marton and behind the frogs?

thanx for yr reply. i know it is now debenahms but like i sed couldnt find anything els..i shall take down what u have advised and will get bk to you wheni fiind something
thanx again
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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #4 on: Friday 14 August 09 07:07 UTC (UK) »
Morning BTfrogs
i have seen the pic on the link u provided.. thnx
but am still searching..hehehe
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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #5 on: Friday 14 August 09 17:03 UTC (UK) »
Hi All.

Here a few images of the store in the 1900's.

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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #6 on: Friday 14 August 09 17:05 UTC (UK) »
Another.

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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #7 on: Friday 14 August 09 17:07 UTC (UK) »
And a view of how it would have looked at the time
your relative worked in the Town.

Sandy

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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #8 on: Friday 14 August 09 19:18 UTC (UK) »
Sandy,

Which way is the last picture looking?  Is that All Saints at the front right?  I thought it had tall railings at that time.

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Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse
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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #9 on: Friday 14 August 09 19:53 UTC (UK) »
Hi David.

It is looking straight up the street, with All Saints on the
right-hand side with low railings.

I think the 1st building on the left is Phil Jeyes the Chemist.

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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #10 on: Friday 14 August 09 20:29 UTC (UK) »
I know Philadelphus Jeyes had his shop in the Drapery.  Wasn't it his son John who invented Jeyes Fluid which I remember my mother using?  The Jeyes family now have their business in The Square Earls Barton but did they have a shop in Gold Street in the 1950s?  I know the father of one of my school friends was the pharmacist in a Chemists there.

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Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse
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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #11 on: Friday 14 August 09 21:22 UTC (UK) »
Do not know about a shop in Gold St.

Only ever known the Drapery and Barton (shop and Museum) ones.

Bit about the history here.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/06wh/

A lot of the family graves seem to be in Kingsthorpe Cemetery.

Did you ever play around the window displays at Adnitts, it used to
keep us amused for hours when I was young.  Smiley

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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 15 August 09 16:18 UTC (UK) »
 :)thanks so much for those pictures they are great so grand.. a lady also sent me one the outside and on inside with all the cloth.. wouldnt mind goin spirit huntin hahha
you have realy given me the chance to see what it was like for my grt grt uncle...
wow!! i c whre i get mu luv of sewing and stuff from now.. i will add those pictures to my tree..im so excited about all this.. now would be nice to see if i can find out when he left and why.
mmmm gives me a change from knittin ye with me wooly socks on too hahah nah only playing.
thnx
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Re: Adnitts dept store in drapery street
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 15 August 09 18:01 UTC (UK) »
HI mafiamamma

Glad that someone else was able to help you also.

Sandy
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