Dave A son of Bill
New Member
Can anyone help in my quest for information about a road transport company, Herringshaws Road Transport, or some thing similar. They came to Birmingham in 1932/33 or so from Sheffield. The owner was called Harry Herringshaw and my father Bill worked for Herringshaw's from about 1926 in Sheffield.
Herringshaws prospered and opened a depot in Birmingham in the early 1930's. My father was asked to transfer to Birmingham with the opening of the new depot, which he did. He moved to Birmingham and at one time lived in Johnstone St.
It is possible that it was Harry Herringshaws son who moved to Birmingham to run the Birmingham operation. There was an article in the Courier of Leamington Spa in 2004 about the 100th birthday of a Daisy Herringshaw, who was probably married to Harry's son. The article mentioned Herringshaws depot in Sheffield, and a tram stop outside the firm which is where I caught the tram to go to school. Daisy talks of moving to Birmingham to start a transport business.
I managed to identify Herringshaw's in Kellys in the mid 30's, but I can't remember how I did it.
Herringshaws telephone number was Aston Cross 3131, I remember that from conversations with my father and from the full page add they had in Kellys.
If my memory serves me right, they dissapeared from Kellys as a transport company about 1948, which was about the time road transport was nationalised, but appeared as Herringshaw Steel with the same phone number. about the same time.
My father said that when the depot was officially opened there was a report in the local paper, (Idon't know which one) and a photo, I would love to hear any information anyone may have about any of this, a trace on the photo would be a godsend.
He left Herringshaw's when he returned to Sheffield to register for military service only to be told as a long distnce lorry driver he was in a reserved occupation, but since he had 'left' his job in Birmingham he was not allowed to return to Birmingham, and was drafted to the Emergency War Transport Scheme, which is why I and my younger sister were born in Sheffield, while my older sister and an older brother (who died only a few days old, and I believe is buried in Whitton Green Cemetry), were born in Birmingham.
I was born just a few hundred yards from Herringshaw's depot in Sheffield, not far from Sheffield Wednesday's ground (which is in Owlerton, not Hillsborough), but from what I can remember they were a steel company. By then it would be mid to late 40's so the transport side would have gone anyway.
There is a reference to Herringshaw Steel in a post dated 3 July 200 by Dereklg in his reply to a post about commercial vehicles, he refers to Herringshaws Steel being in Arley Road, but I dont know if the early days of the transport company were based there.
Any information would be more than welcome!
Herringshaws prospered and opened a depot in Birmingham in the early 1930's. My father was asked to transfer to Birmingham with the opening of the new depot, which he did. He moved to Birmingham and at one time lived in Johnstone St.
It is possible that it was Harry Herringshaws son who moved to Birmingham to run the Birmingham operation. There was an article in the Courier of Leamington Spa in 2004 about the 100th birthday of a Daisy Herringshaw, who was probably married to Harry's son. The article mentioned Herringshaws depot in Sheffield, and a tram stop outside the firm which is where I caught the tram to go to school. Daisy talks of moving to Birmingham to start a transport business.
I managed to identify Herringshaw's in Kellys in the mid 30's, but I can't remember how I did it.
Herringshaws telephone number was Aston Cross 3131, I remember that from conversations with my father and from the full page add they had in Kellys.
If my memory serves me right, they dissapeared from Kellys as a transport company about 1948, which was about the time road transport was nationalised, but appeared as Herringshaw Steel with the same phone number. about the same time.
My father said that when the depot was officially opened there was a report in the local paper, (Idon't know which one) and a photo, I would love to hear any information anyone may have about any of this, a trace on the photo would be a godsend.
He left Herringshaw's when he returned to Sheffield to register for military service only to be told as a long distnce lorry driver he was in a reserved occupation, but since he had 'left' his job in Birmingham he was not allowed to return to Birmingham, and was drafted to the Emergency War Transport Scheme, which is why I and my younger sister were born in Sheffield, while my older sister and an older brother (who died only a few days old, and I believe is buried in Whitton Green Cemetry), were born in Birmingham.
I was born just a few hundred yards from Herringshaw's depot in Sheffield, not far from Sheffield Wednesday's ground (which is in Owlerton, not Hillsborough), but from what I can remember they were a steel company. By then it would be mid to late 40's so the transport side would have gone anyway.
There is a reference to Herringshaw Steel in a post dated 3 July 200 by Dereklg in his reply to a post about commercial vehicles, he refers to Herringshaws Steel being in Arley Road, but I dont know if the early days of the transport company were based there.
Any information would be more than welcome!