Luton,Bds. "Tingries"

[krystalRose59]

I am hoping someone has a lead on this business.I believe it would be either an Inn/public house or some type of straw works factory.


Reference: X 858/5
Creation dates: 18 Aug 1871
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acc. 7857
(a) messuage, tenement or warehouse situate in George Street in Luton, now occupied by John Jefferson Kershaw and Company.

(b) messuage, tenement, or dwellinghouse with outbuildings, yard, garden and orchard containing three roods at the rear in George Street and adjoining (a), late in the occupation of Francis Butterfield, but now unoccupied.

(c)  messuage, tenement or warehouse adjoining (b) in George Street, now in the occupation of Samuel Hooker, many years ago known by the name of Tingries, and bounded in front by George Street, by premises occupied by Joseph Godfrey on the SE, at the back by property belonging to the executors of the late Henry Pigott and to the NW by property of John Jefferson Kershaw and others.

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Cindy

When looking at these BLARS documents, be it on the BLARS site or via A2A,  it pays to move up to the next level and look at all the documents relating to that particular property. If you check all documents in X858 you'll find the answer to at least part of your question in the next document

X858/6/1-2 - Reconveyance from Francis Butterfield of Luton, yeoman (since deceased), to John Jefferson Kershaw of Luton,  straw hat merchant

It goes on to give more detail of the property than is contained in X856/5

In 1871 living in Cemetery Rd Luton was Samuel Hooker 43 Straw hat manufacturer, so presumably the George St premises were his factory

Samuel doesn't appear in the 1877 Post Office Directory, although there is a William Hooker, straw hat and bonnet manufacturer in Park St, Luton. John Jefferson Kershaw and Co., tuscan and fancy straw hat manufacturers appear at George St Luton

David