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Originally posted by barrydidit View PostYou tick 'crumpets' on your spreadie if you want pitta. Stick it to the man...Comment
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Got around to looking up the premises in which I live on the 1901 census. On the relevant night, the household consisted of a boot & shoe manufacturer named Charles H. Roberts (41), his wife Bessie (43), their three children Sydney C. (12), Arthur L. (9), and Harry S. (8); a visitor named William Agar (53), Unitarian minister by trade; the cook, Harriet B. Underwood (24); and the housemaid, Elizabeth C. Carr (28).Comment
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It seems that William Agar had taken up a ministry in Sidmouth two years previously:
AGAR William. B 15 January 1848 at Leicester. UC. Min 1874-1914, from 1899 at Sidmouth. D 12 Feb 1919 at Sidmouth. I:1919, 61. * 1919.
- Obituries of Unitarian Ministers
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And Charles H. Roberts was the oldest child of:
Thomas ROBERTS
Born 1832 at Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, son of Thomas ROBERTS, victualler, and his wife Catherine. In 1856 at Northampton he married Elizabeth Corby LOVELL and their children included Charles Henry ROBERTS 1859, Harry ROBERTS 1863, Annie ROBERTS 1865, Emily ROBERTS 1869 and Kate ROBERTS 1873. He worked firstly as a leather cutter in Worcester and in 1872 founded the Portland Shoe Co in Leicester. Until the firm's amalgamation with the Ward-White Co in 1979, it was the oldest private limited company in the shoe trade in Leicester still controlled and managed by descendants of the founder. Thomas and his sons Charles and Harry were all shareholders in the Public Benefit Boot Co.
- Biographical Notes: Surnames P-S
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And, rather astonishingly, there is a book: Ancient & Historical Buildings In The Vicinity Of The Portland Shoe Works Leicester
According to the local rag, the works met an awful fate: "T. Roberts & Son (Portland Shoes), The Newarke. Now used by De Montfort University."Comment
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And here's Charles's factory as it is now: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.63...7i13312!8i6656Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAnd here's Charles's factory as it is now: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.63...7i13312!8i6656Comment
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