Comments on: Sam Nicholls Of Nicholls & Clarke

By: Janice gallivan

Janice gallivan — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:15:28 +0000

I worked at N &C from 1968-1980
When I left to have a baby. I enjoyed every minute working there. Great people to work for and with

By: Tom cashin

Tom cashin — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:13:58 +0000

I worked for n&c shorditch in 1980-1984
Staff were great I worked behind the trade
Counter laughed every day

By: Sharon sharkey

Sharon sharkey — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:12:39 +0000

Brilliant article and amazing history. I worked at here in the late 80s as my first job. I loved it. Would love to meet up with the old crowd please get in touch if anyone would like a reunion.

By: Richard Miles

Richard Miles — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:44:50 +0000

Excellent article. I’m almost certain that the James Miles you mention was my great great grandfather. All that I know about him, was that he was a lead and glass merchant. One of his children, my great grandfather, Alfred Miles emigrated to Argentina probably allied to the failure of his father James’s business and became a successful business man and landowner as well a s senator in the Congress. My grandfather never mentioned nor seem to know what happened, other than a very strange story of a flood in a glass factory. Apart from a record of James Miles, lead and glass merchant of Shoreditch, buying the stock in trade of Henry Tyzack in 1858, your reference to James in your article is the only lead that I have. I would be most grateful for further information on James, good or bad!

By: Oliver Williams

Oliver Williams — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:22:12 +0000

This is so evocative! Wonderful social history.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:25:04 +0000

Ah yes – had a “New World 85” for when Natural Gas arrived ….
Now replaced by something almost as old, but more reliable .. a “New World Rangette”
( Mind you, I had to take it apart, degrease it (euw) and re-assemble … )

By: Margaret N

Margaret N — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:41:56 +0000

We only got rid of our “primrose” yellow Hadrian bath and No.Y1128 low level closet suite plus wash hand basin in March this year – perhaps it was supplied by Nicholls and Clarke in 1948 when we know it was put in. What had seemed quaint and “vintage” 17 years ago when we moved to this house had become beyond grotty and how glad we were in the end to wave it goodbye as it went down the road in a skip. But oh, how smart it must have seemed when it was all first installed!

By: GKBowood

GKBowood — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:33:23 +0000

I really enjoyed this article! I found myself pouring over the catalog items with serious consideration.