Comments on: Piggott Brothers Of Bishopsgate

By: Cadi Piggott

Cadi Piggott — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 02:19:37 +0000

Can anybody tell me the first names of the original Piggott brothers? We have been trying to do our family tree (all from Ongar as far back as it goes so far!) Nobody can remember any further and all the older generation are gone 🙁 The last one we have is William Piggott 1801-1880. Regretting not learning more while we had the chance! This could help a lot! If anyone has any interesting things to share I’d love to hear about it! cadi.piggott@gmail.com

By: Malcolm Dale

Malcolm Dale — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 06:03:30 +0000

I just downloaded the 1921 Census and see that my uncle David’s place of work
was listed as “Pigotte Brothers, Bishopsgate. ” I can only assume this was in fact Pigott Brothers.

By: Vivian Campbell

Vivian Campbell — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:04:45 +0000

I lived in Bishopsgate as my parents had The Primrose PH. The photos are just how I remember the beautiful buildings. My first boyfriend took me to Piggots to buy me a pair of white ice skating boots. I was so proud to walk along Bishopsgate with them hung over my shoulder to Liverpool Street station to get the underground to Queensway ice ring. I still have the boots in my loft, when I look at them the memories come flooding back.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:25:09 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, what an interesting piece about the Piggot Brothers, tentmakers from Bishopgate. Just thinking about the logistics of delivering, setting up, dismantling, and moving these tents and accoutrements back to London sound daunting.

Needless to say, they must have had a huge storage facility.

By: Kelly Holman

Kelly Holman — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:52:44 +0000

What a wonderful array of illustrations from the grand ballroom marquee to the more humble rick cloth which, although practical, manages to look beautiful draped over the harvest. Having discovered recently that there is a thriving wild swimming movement on our local river, the bathing tent caught my eye. It is gorgeous and I think it would have been greatly appreciated by the swimmers I have seen emerging from the water these past few chilly days.

By: Jane Manley

Jane Manley — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:00:20 +0000

What an amazing post. I didn’t realise that Pigott Brothers had begun in Bishopsgate. At some time they must have moved to Stanford Rivers near Ongar in Essex. The building that housed their factory was actually the original Victorian buildings of the Ongar Workhouse. Piggots were customers of my family business which was a very old established ironmongers and every year we used to supply them with loads of straining wire. This wire was used to make the Regent Street Christmas lights in London which they used to make in the 1970s and 1980s. We would always take a trip up to London to admire the lights being thrilled to think of the part that we had played in them.

By: Rob Hill

Rob Hill — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:45:39 +0000

It looks as if illustration for the wedding marquee features the marriage of Mr Murray Posh and Miss Daisy Mutler. The reason is that I believe I can see Mr Charles Pooter and his dear wife Carrie seated at the end of the table.

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:26:57 +0000

Last picture is how I remember Piggott Brothers in the 50s, getting off the same Trolley Bus from Hackney Road. Always an interesting shop that to a small boy, used it for buying ping pong balls, and having my bats re rubbered, bought a very nice Cricket bat there along with balls, it was then the only place to go. Thanks GA, for putting that picture up cought the moment and time just right for this Old School Guy. Stay safe London,read your all being let loose today from lockdown, how things are changing for many citizens lives in 2021, my sincere good wishes for all your futures.

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:10:50 +0000

A fantastic selection of marquees and tents and I’m surprised at the variety of shapes that were available then.

I will forward this to the marquee supplier I have recently worked with who will be particularly interested to see the 1880’s prices!

He is hoping that there will be a boom in garden parties requiring marquees this year as people are restricted from taking holidays abroad, and will be doing more entertaining at home.

Let’s hope the weather improves a bit by then… it is snowing as I write!

By: David Gooding

David Gooding — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:07:17 +0000

10 Shillings a day for a round tent seems quite reasonable for 1880. That’s about £65 in today’s currency.