Comments on: Save Spiegelhalters!

By: David Brian Lewis

David Brian Lewis — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:27:54 +0000

Hello all

Season’s greetings
I don’t know if this site still operates but I am trying to research the history of Hugo Anton Speigalhalter (sic) who became Hugh Lambert Smith in 1919. It’s for a magazine article

Perhaps you could mail me please?

Many thanks

David Lewis

By: Myra sweeney ( Spiegelhalter)

Myra sweeney ( Spiegelhalter) — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:05:19 +0000

I was a Spiegelhalter from south wales, my grandparents came over from the Black Forest to open a jewellers shop, my father and his brother carried the shop on till they passed . I would like to get in touch with any Spiegelhalter .

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 09 May 2021 08:11:18 +0000

Still wearing my Grandads Spiegelhalter watch. Just had it serviced. Love the fact that the postcode is on the watch face.

By: Brenda dunn

Brenda dunn — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:25:12 +0000

In June 1959 my late husband and I bought an engagement ring from Spiegelhalter Bros Ltd, following in the footsteps of his parents in 1930s. I came across the receipt today and googled the shop. I remember going into the shop at 81 Mile End Road and read the history with interest.

By: Jan Bradley

Jan Bradley — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 21:02:25 +0000

My mother’s first job was a waitress at Wickhams, she was only 14 in approx 1929. They had to be very quick on their feet at that time & she told us that her sisters called her “quickhams from Wickhams” – she didn’t stay for long but ironically when she got engaged to my father in the 1930’s he bought the engagement ring from, you guessed it, Spiegelhalters – I inherited it & wear it often. Hope the petition was successful.

By: Thomas Spiegelhalter

Thomas Spiegelhalter — Thu, 26 May 2016 07:49:55 +0000

Hello everyone, I’m a relative of Spiegelhalters (living in Miami, USA) and just realized that my ancestry tree is very close. Yesterday, I visited the site and interviewed the neighbors in the mosque, small jobs etc and overwhelmingly learned the support for the Spiegelhalter’s jewelery and clockmaker shop. It is indeed an Icon of Resistance and brings smiles on the faces of the community in this vibrant neighborhood. What can I do as an architect and town planner support the pledge to preserve this Icon from my remote office in Miami? Best wishes, Thomas

By: Roy Canning

Roy Canning — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:02:11 +0000

When I was a boy I lived near Welling, Kent (now SE London) and a similar think happened there.

A 1930’s built block of shops, I can’t remember, but it was about 6 shops, was gradually taken over by a car showroom They had all the ground floor knocked into one with folding glass fronted doors so they could put the cars out on the forecourt. That was except for a blemish on the last but one shop.

It was a little furniture shop with its canvas cover sheltering its furniture on its own forecourt interrupting the desired monopoly of the second hand car shop owner. He held out for ages, but in the early 1960s the furniture shop owner either caved in or perhaps died. The car showroom had the whole block of shops in the end.

What was the name of the road where this happened – Upper Wickham Lane!

I only stumbled across Wickham’s/Spiegalhalters recently and was intregued by it. How can anybody not want this preserved for posterity? It is bad enough that the jewellers façade was destroyed after surviving for so long. I am sorry I am too late for the petition but I hope my interest now helps.

By: Alan Merryweather

Alan Merryweather — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:21:30 +0000

For Family Historians.
I live in Cirencester and was reminiscing with my next-door neighbour (born 1924!) and we talked about Mr Spiegelhalter the jeweller and his little shop in Station Terrrace, Kensal Rise, our home town.
Mr S. was a polite, very tall handsome man and had an equally fine son.

When I was about 12 he sold my mother my first watch, but it was soon back for repair as it didn’t have Incabloc shock protection.

My sister in law told me the son married a girl from Hanover Road – where both me and my neighbour lived …

By: Robert Schmidt

Robert Schmidt — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 03:58:57 +0000

My great grandmother was a Spiegelhalter and moved to America with her two daughters Mary and Hilda Watson- I heard stories of how they loved the shop and wished they had never left England in 1917. Mary was my grandmother and settled in Northern California and my mother inherited the Spiegelhalter resolve. If any relatives would care to get in touch please email me- Robert Oakley Schmidt – at oakley58@me.com

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 29 May 2015 16:27:16 +0000

I agree with Gloria, a coffee shop ot tea house would be fab.
We need to keep our historic buildings not keep tearing them down!
List it!