Strange Find Stuck up a Chimney!

[Treetotal]

There was a building being demolished in Hull where a large amount of pawn tickets where found hidden in a chimney stack. They were offered to the heritage centre where I am a volunteer. They were threaded on wire in circular bunches and were very sooty. After the volunteers had cleaned them and catalogued them, one of the volunteers wrote a book about the life and times of Pawnbrokers in the 1880s.
For anyone with a local connection this is a fascinating book about the hardship that drove people to use these facilities.
The book can be purchased here:


https://www.carnegiehull.co.uk/carnegie-heritage-centre-shop.php#!/NEW-A-Remarkable-Discovery-and-An-Unsolved-Mystery/p/503851833/category=0

Carol

[Stanwix England]

That is fascinating.

Makes you wonder about who hid them and why. Did they not want other people they were living with to know?

[Treetotal]

It does make you wonder, undeclared income? who knows. Some of the items listed are interesting, Ladies Fur for stole, 5 shillings.
Carol

[sugarbakers]

Thank you, Carol .......... and it was very easy to order.

[maddys52]

Fascinating find. Looks like they are dated around 1890, did they look at who was living at the address in 1891?

[Rosinish]

Looks like they are dated around 1890, did they look at who was living at the address in 1891?

If you click on the link it gives quite a bit of info...

"...South Street in Hull...The tickets were from Robert Colliers pawn shop whose shop occupied the site from 1878 to 1898..."

Annie

[maddys52]

Oh, thanks Annie. I was reading on my phone earlier and the link wouldn't open. Have had a look now, such an interesting find.

[Treetotal]

It's a fascinating book and it is selling quite well.
Carol