Gareth Harrison
Gareth
1940 ONWARDS
In the 1940s we find Jacob and Fanny living with their son Bevis, after the business had been run into the ground by a manager installed as Jacob became too sick. Mum tells me that the psoriasis (a particularly nasty skin disease) appeared in 1949 after a bout in the sun at Blackpool, which contradicts with Paul Winter's recollection, which gave it as a major reason for the business failure in 1934. Also she tells me that he lost a lot of money on a huge consignment of uninsured Wellington Boots in a warehouse fire. Certainly Louis and Harry took over two of the shops in 1946 when Jacob at the ripe old age of 68 retired.
There is a letter dated 22/2/1940 indicating that Fanny had left him for a period as things had hit rock bottom and bills were not getting paid.
I also note that Jacob already had some contacts with Brighton(where they eventually settled)- a postcard sitting with a friend on the beach in 1910, in Yiddish, he sent to himself in Birmingham and a holiday he took down there again in 1933.
In the 1940s we find Jacob and Fanny living with their son Bevis, after the business had been run into the ground by a manager installed as Jacob became too sick. Mum tells me that the psoriasis (a particularly nasty skin disease) appeared in 1949 after a bout in the sun at Blackpool, which contradicts with Paul Winter's recollection, which gave it as a major reason for the business failure in 1934. Also she tells me that he lost a lot of money on a huge consignment of uninsured Wellington Boots in a warehouse fire. Certainly Louis and Harry took over two of the shops in 1946 when Jacob at the ripe old age of 68 retired.
There is a letter dated 22/2/1940 indicating that Fanny had left him for a period as things had hit rock bottom and bills were not getting paid.
I also note that Jacob already had some contacts with Brighton(where they eventually settled)- a postcard sitting with a friend on the beach in 1910, in Yiddish, he sent to himself in Birmingham and a holiday he took down there again in 1933.
