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Corn Merchants....
« on: Sunday 26 November 06 15:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi  :D

Can anybody please tell me what a Corn Merchant actually did - did he sell the corn??  Was it a good job???  Am I been really dense over this :-[   and where would ideally live to do this job, city???? or village???  countryside????

Just clutching at a few straws to see if I can work something out over yet another hiding rellie ;D


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BARNBY DUN - HARVEY, BLANCHARD
DANBY & WHITBY  - JEFFELS
LIVERPOOL - GANDER
SKELTON & ESTON - SEATON
BEDALE & MIDDLESBROUGH - STEPHENSON
BROUGHTON - HARRISON
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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 November 06 16:03 GMT (UK) »
I posted this as part of a reply to someone asking about whether Newport Road, Middlesbrough used to be shops.

A Thurlow Levi (great name!) who was a corn and flour dealer was shown at number 131 so looks like it was a shop then.   

So it seems that a corn dealer didn't necessarily have to live in the countryside
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough.
Etherington - North Yorks and Durham.
Barker- North Yorks
Crooks- Durham
Forster- North Yorks/Durham
Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks.
Timothy, Griffiths, Jones - South Wales

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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 November 06 18:37 GMT (UK) »
Corn dealers were agents who bought grain from farmers and sold it either for feed or seed depending on such factors as bushel weight, quality, malting suitability, purity of the sample (ie weed seeds)and so on.
When we were kids, dad sold corn through a dealer who had the feed mill in the local market town. They had a shop for pet food and things in the High Street, but traded farm feed and seed through the Victorian feed mill nearby.
Farmers always tended to think they were being swindled by the dealer who seemed to find every reason to keep the price down.  ::)
Even today, grain is sold for different purposes depending on its quality. Milling wheat and malting barley attract a premium, while poorer samples are used for animal feed. There is also a demand for pure samples for next year's seed which have to be weed free and sometimes receive chemical treatment against pests and diseases.
Good examples of dealers can be seen in the film "Far from the Madding Crowd" where Bathsheba takes her samples to the Corn Exchange in town- Exchanges were built in the arable areas where buyers and sellers could deal -Blandford Forum in Dorset had a famous one.
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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 November 06 20:14 GMT (UK) »
My local pet shop has a plaque on it which says "Corn Chandlers established 1926".  The family who owned it up to about ten years ago were farmers at the time when it first opened and used it to sell corn and hay from the farm but also other products mainly for the town's people to look after their horses.  In the last thirty years I have seen it move away from that market to the now traditional pet shop.

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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 26 November 06 20:21 GMT (UK) »
The pet shop in Coatham Road, Redcar was always known as the corn stores - maybe for the same reason  :)
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough.
Etherington - North Yorks and Durham.
Barker- North Yorks
Crooks- Durham
Forster- North Yorks/Durham
Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks.
Timothy, Griffiths, Jones - South Wales

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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #5 on: Monday 27 November 06 07:58 GMT (UK) »
Thank you all so much for your help ;D


Jane
LEICESTERSHIRE & MIDDLESBROUGH - BOLLANDS, GORE,
LINCOLNSHIRE - BAKEWELL, MARRIOTT
MONAGHAN & CRAMLINGTON - RICE
LAZENBY - HANSOM, HARRISON, NODDINGS, EASBY
BARNBY DUN - HARVEY, BLANCHARD
DANBY & WHITBY  - JEFFELS
LIVERPOOL - GANDER
SKELTON & ESTON - SEATON
BEDALE & MIDDLESBROUGH - STEPHENSON
BROUGHTON - HARRISON
MIDDLESBROUGH - WARD,FOSTER
PINCHINTHORPE -  POSTGATE
BILSDALE- BOYES


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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 15 August 10 14:51 BST (UK) »
Hi
Not sure if this thread is still live as it is years ago.... but I used to go to the Corn Stores on Coatham High St with my grandfather in the early 1960s. They had huge sacks of corn for pigeons on the floor and the place smelt great! Grandad and the owner were boyhood friends I believe. Next door was the Station Hotel and on the opposite corner was Boagey's grocers.

My grandfather was Joe Caton and had the newsagents at 136 High St, Redcar.
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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 15 August 10 22:04 BST (UK) »
There's a pic of Boagey's on here:
http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/themarsh/page78.phtml

Station Hotel is still there but unfortunately not the Corn Stores
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough.
Etherington - North Yorks and Durham.
Barker- North Yorks
Crooks- Durham
Forster- North Yorks/Durham
Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks.
Timothy, Griffiths, Jones - South Wales

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Re: Corn Merchants....
« Reply #8 on: Monday 16 August 10 14:00 BST (UK) »
That sounds lke many buildings in Redcar.  returned from SA in 1999 and was horrified to see the town centre in Redcar. Do you remember the Name on the corn exchange