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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Nevthedigger on Tuesday 11 December 18 11:52 GMT (UK)
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I am trying to find the location of this branch of Maypole Dairy Co Ltd. The proprietor's name seems to be Abraham Al........ Does it look familiar to anyone?
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I think the Abraham chap was next door, different business. Just prior to starting his career as a full time musician, my dad worked for the Maypole for a few months after leaving school at the end of the 1930s. 60 hours a week for 12/6d (as he never tired of informing me...lol).
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http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/maypole/maypole01.htm
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I think the Abraham chap was next door, different business.
Yes, it's an Abraham Altham shop (tea merchants)
Seems Abraham ended up with 64 tea shops https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11329846.entrepreneur-abraham-altham-started-working-life-in-stone-quarry/ so that gives scope for plenty of searching :D
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Any clearer? Perhaps not :-(
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Is one or more of your ancestors in the photo? If so - that could help narrow down the location. If not - where have you got the photo from?
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Thanks all for your input so far. The photo came with a collection of postcards, mostly Yorkshire but some from Lancashire. :)
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As the postcard appears to be intended for 'Master Kevell'.........does that turn up anywhere?
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I thought it said Master Ernest Revell and there is a cross indicating he is the young man on the right as you look at the photo.
Carol
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Two crosses Carol :)
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Oops.... Well spotted...missed that one Andy :-X
Carol
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Oops.... Well spotted...missed that one Andy :-X
Carol
However..... there are quite a few Ernest Revells born in the early to mid 1900s so take a bow.
The only Ernest Revell I found in the north, in a suitable time frame, was registered in Glanford Brigg (Scunthorpe) in 1905.
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However..... there are quite a few Ernest Revells born in the early to mid 1900s so take a bow.
The only Ernest Revell I found in the north, in a suitable time frame, was registered in Glanford Brigg (Scunthorpe) in 1905.
Unfortunately there appears to be a death registered of Ernest REVELL aged 1 at Glanford Brigg in 1906.
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Oh dear....poor little Ernie.
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If the tea shops were in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and if Ernest is the young looking chap on the right above that 'x', I guess he's born 1900 - 1909? I can see around 10 likely suspects on FreeBMD. :) If he's the slightly older one on the left, then there's quite a few more ...
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Looking at historical directories there appears to be entries for the two enterprises under similar looking addresses in Newborough/Scarborough,but the print is not clear (71a?,74?).Can somebody else take a look and give an opinion please.
Regards
Roger
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The results are in N & E Riding Yorkshire 1913 Part 1
Maypole Dairy page366(search),page 348(as printed)
Altham.page 925(search),page 910(as printed)
I'm trying to see there is a street directory section where they are together.
Regards
Roger
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Perhaps the young lad on the right is the son of the one on the left?
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As there are two crosses on the photograph, I wonder if the writing on the back refers to two people, Master Revell written on one side of the dividing line and Ernest on the other :-\
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That's a very valid point Jools.
Carol
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This photo of Maypole Dairy Co. is in Batley Market Place. I have the same postcard stamped with photographers name in Batley. Shop to right is Abraham Althams. Confirmed by Batley Historical Society
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That's a good find - thanks, Alun (and welcome!).
Now you've given us something definite, here's another view with Altham's and Maypole on the right hand edge:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-batley-market-place-early-1900s-57336084.html
From comparing with current pictures/street view, does this mean it was roughly where Jo Cox House is now?
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Brings back childhood memories of a Maypole where my father was manager. We lived in a flat above the shop when I was small and the store rooms and cellar were my playground. Many a happy(?) hour was spent checking eggs with a candle box. The bacon slicer was quite hypnotic as it did its work back-and-forth, back-and-forth! I remember weighing up packages of lard with wooden paddles on the Avery scales. Later I delivered boxes of butter on the front of the trade bike and after I left school I 'boned' sides of bacon for a short while.
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Thanks now I know exactly where.....
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I've found a couple more photos:
https://www.francisfrith.com/batley/batley-commercial-street-c1955_b642017
https://www.francisfrith.com/batley/batley-market-place-c1955_b642011
The first one shows Maypole, with Althams now replaced by Timothy Whites & Taylors (chemists) and its stonework painted. The second one is the same shops viewed across the market square: Maypole is dark and probably can't be identified on its own, but Timothy Whites and its painted stonework is easy to spot. This confirms that the building was where Jo Cox House now stands.
If you have access to Ancestry you can see the same two images as part of their Francis Frith collection. They're nos. 7 and 1 in the Batley set.
(Incidentally, I was told that Stows shopfitters and joiners of Bradford - family firm of some of my ancestors - did a lot of work for Maypole, and as that's close to Batley, they may well have worked on this one.)