HI Barron
Many Thanks For Your Reply To Be Quite Honest I Can Recall Them YearsAgo
Removing The Clock For A Long Period, And I Agree With You Now Yes Its Not The Same Clock As To When I Was A Kid That Is For Definately I Would Also Say There Is A Slight Dezine Around The Shape Mind You ItDoes Look Quite Fancy Whilst It Painted
I Can Remember When Every Sunday Evening Around 6 Oclock The Salvation Army From Victoria Rd Used To Meet Up Underneath It And All Or Most Of The Kids From Cromwell Terrace Would Scurry Down To The Clock Stand Watcth And Listen And Sing With Them ,-Then We Would All Fall In Behind Them And March Down To The Hall In Victoria Rd Just Before You Got To Pugh Rd And WE Would Go In And Listen To The Captain Telling Us About Jesus Christ Waving The Tamberines When Finish We Would All Run Back Up The Lichfield Rd To The Terrace And Tell Our Mom And Dads All ABOUT IT.Barron Getting Back To The Clock ,It Definately Ain,nt The Same Clock That Stood There In The Forties ,The More I Think About It I Can Recall Saying To My Best Mate
At The Time When We Was Kids Theyve Change The Clock But I Cannot Be Sure Of What Year It Was , Colin Gaskin ,Lived At No 1 At The Botton Of The Terrace Is Father Was An Ex Army In The Signals , And When He Came Out Of Service He Was
A Regimental Uniformed Commisionair Some Where With All Is Stripes
You Asked If Mr Jelf Was My Grand Father , Yes He Was If We Ever Had Him Visit To Our House UP The Terrace He Was Always Wearing A Big Posh Mohaired Over Coat And A Bowler Hat With A Big Posh Car And All The Neibours Always Addrees Him And Said Good Morning Mr Jelf , Or Good Afternoon Mr Jelf He Never Stayed More Than 10 Mins And He Was Always Off On His Rounds Checking And Collecting His Taking From All The Bussiness He Had Around You Name It He Had One There In Total There Was Thirty Three Shops My MomWas His Only Child , Her Mom Died In 1953 [ Bertha Hinton ] My Memories Of Her She Looked Like Gracie Fields , The Man Whom Created All The Bussiness Was His Father George William Jelf , Is Empire Started At 901
Ivydene Tyburn Rd Before The War And He Set All The Sons Up In Bussiness
He Was About 25 Years Old When He Inherit Is First ShopAnd Built Up A Total Of Thirty Three Shops Over The Period But It Was Bertha HintonHis Wife My Grand Mother Was The Brains And The Instigater Behind The Bussiness She Kept And Organised The Finances In Control And The Saddest Thing Was When All The Brothers Was Alive And One By One They Died , But They Never Spoke To Each Other
And One Or The Other Would By Or Inherit The Brothers Shop At Death
To Me , The Cleverist One Was Charles He Had A Book Making Bussiness AS Well
Coffee Shop And Two Booking Officies One Was On Alma St And The Other Tyburn Rd
At His Fathers Ajoining The Coffee Shop And Ware house ,
Out OF All The Family There Was Only One Girl That Was Ivy She Never Had A Bussiness She Was The Secretaary Up To 1946 When She Inherit Tyburn Rd From Her
Mother Mary Ann Jelf ,[Nee HUGHES] And Ernie, Mr Jelf From Park Lane Aston
Fell Out With Ivy Over That Shop And He Vowed Never To Step Over The Thresh hold Wich He Never Did But Strangely When My Mother Took Him In In His Later Years
He Told Her Do Not Worry Joyce You Are Well Provided For But What He Did
Told Her Lies , And Left His Will Ti His Sister Whom Never Spoke In Thirty Years
And At The End Of The Day Ivy Collected All The Brothers Wealth From There Shops
But The Only Brother She Did,nt Get Was Bill,s Because He Had One Shop In His Life For A Short While And Packed UP And Never Had Another One Till He Died ,
Well Barron Thanks For Your Response To The Thread Best Wishes ASTONIAN ,;;