Comments on: Nicholls & Clarke’s Hardware

By: Ron Edge

Ron Edge — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:23:11 +0000

Yes, I remember Jack Hobbs very well. I worked at N & C for 13 years. 1965 thru 1978. Was employed by Cyril Wakeman. Jack worked in the sanyware office but I cannot remember the names of the two Walters brothers also in this dept. One was the manager and the other guy in charge of the sany stores. Don’t think they ever got on with each other. Jack was always helpful and friendly.

By: cathie chappell

cathie chappell — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:06:58 +0000

My mum Rosaleen worked in the office in Shoreditch in the early fifties. They noticed she was good at maths and trained her to be a contomitor operator. No maternity leave in those days and she lost her job due to being pregnant with me in 1955

By: Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:06:37 +0000

Nice to see our Catalogue featured, I worked at the original Head office in Shoreditch High Street up until 2004 when we moved to our new premises in Chadwell Heath. This year sees the 140th Anniversary of the Company and as such much of our archive and history has been brought out for staff and visitors to see, fascinating stuff of bygone times, especially old ledgers with Copperplate Script, all beautifully handwritten journals, somehow an excel spreadsheet won’t quite look the same 100 years from now! We are also publishing a hardback book of the history. We have numerous catalogues from the history archives including some over 100 years old.

By: PETER BERRY

PETER BERRY — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:47:30 +0000

I remember collecting curtain rails etc, in the late 50s as an apprentice on Hopes Heating. and all the radiators And fittings being delivered to his house near Watford, the shop was amazing to a youngster of sixteen years old,
Peter Berry

By: Charles Hobbs

Charles Hobbs — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:26:39 +0000

great to see this old catalogue.My father worked there for nearly 50 years and may have helped compile the details for the sanitaryware.Does anybody remember Jack Hobbs?

By: David Lewis of Daniel Lewis & Son Limited / W. H Clark (London) Ltd - Est. 1797 of 493 - 495 Hackney Road E2

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:38:16 +0000

Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw “The LONDON” Gas Cooker in Nicholls & Clarke’s old 1950’s Catalogue… for we still have the exact same fully working model on the premises in our old Engineering / Factory / Stores to the rear of our business premises in Hackney Road… which the staff used to boil a kettle on to make a brew on a frosty winters morn or to heat up a can of beans & toast bread for lunch and of course I am sure “Jimmy Nash” – W.H. Clark (London) Ltd’s – Foreman / Manager will remember using when he comes to visit us next week… if it was winter I’d get a can of Soup (or as our old staff use to call it “Loop the Loop”) ready just for you JIM!!

By: bill from loughton

bill from loughton — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:24:58 +0000

Memories! worked at nichols&clarkes 70years ago as a 16 year old trainee in the ironmogery department , asked for a rise in pay got an extra 2/6 a week left soon after.

By: Chris F

Chris F — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:14:42 +0000

We still have the black and white versions of the yellow splashback installed in many of the student bedrooms at the University where I work. I also have a box containing the spare chrome toothbrush and glass holders.

By: Ron Pummell

Ron Pummell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:54:20 +0000

I did not realise that Nicholls & Clarke were ‘online’ in 1958.

By: deptford pudding)

deptford pudding) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:56:48 +0000

I’ve a single stall urinal in my front garden.