Could buy anything in there, better than the modern stores, ask for something out of the ordinary and one of the men would shuffle off upstairs, check in the untold no of drawers and bins and usually come down with what you wanted. Brill.
WILTON & NICHOLLS was my family's business. My paternal grandfather Walter Henry Nicholls (1977-1954) went into partnership with Thomas Bulgin Wilton and and company was known as Wilton & Nicholls, Ironmongers, Ltd. Walter Henry's three sons Walter Roy Nicholls (1909-1990), Frank Lewellyn Nicholls (1911-1984)and my late father John Douglas Nicholls (1914-1994) worked in the family business all their working lives. Roy was Managing Director and Frank and John were Company Directors. In 1975 they sold the business to Roger Bailey. He went bankrupt in the early 1980s following which the company sadly ceased to exist.Walter Henry Nicholls died on 22 April 1954 aged 76. In his obituary his profession was given as Ironmonger (Master) at 18 Market Jew Street, Penzance.Mary Chown nee Nicholls
Mary, thank you for those notes. My father was a great admirer of this business. I have just uncovered a huge number of negatives and transparencies I've not seen for over twenty years so there maybe more of this and other past scenes from the town. But, it may be some time before they appear here.
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