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Holloway Head

lovely typical photo of a back yard...exeter passage off holloway head 1968 now all we need to hope for is that little lad comes forwardthumbnail - 2024-10-15T143346.222.jpg..mike if you spot this could we have a map please showing exeter passage...cheers

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That is very possible. Here is another photo labelled Exeter Passage. L& O Hamnett was listed in Kellys as at 18 Exeter Passage. This does not look like the previous photo, but Leo Hamnet at no 18 would fit in with the map

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Just a small observation, Mike and that is the name of the company shown in your photo. It is L&O Hamnett. What was the relationship between the two partners. Maybe brothers?
 
Radiorails said:
Just a small observation, Mike and that is the name of the company shown in your photo. It is L&O Hamnett. What was the relationship between the two partners. Maybe brothers?
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Possibly or father & son. There's an Owen Hamnett (b1881) who had both a brother and son called Leonard,

Though both Owen and his brother died in the 1950s.
 
The Hamnet business was active and still at 18 Exeter Passage in 1969 (as per the address in Mike's #6)
Source: British Newspaper Archive
 

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This is a prime example of the mis-spelling of names. Confusing, maybe, to researchers. An instance of lack of attention to detail with newsprint or possibly carelessness.
The Evening Mail clip shown by Vivienne gives the company name as Hamnet whereas to artwork on the door of the building, in Mike's post 6, reads Hamnett
 
MWS said:
Could it be (the back of) Exeter Place rather than Exeter Passage? From 1954...
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Just looking at this map shows Exeter place, back in the early 1960's this was what could only be decribed as a real slum. I worked in Bow sreet from 1961, the building shown there as a clothing factory became G.W. Stokes shopfitters and l worked there. The top floor had a view straight across to the back of those houses and boy did we see some goings on! They threw rubbish inc used ladies sanitory products straight out of the windows onto the flat roof below of the building shown as Optical works. We used to watch rats sorting through it :eek:. They had no bedroom curtains other than a bit of ripped rag and shamelessly cavorted about as you might imagine and knew full well that a factory of 4 floors of men right opposite had a full view. As a young lad of barely 15 it was something of a shocker. Bow street survived the mass of demolition and is still there today as it the building I worked in

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