Aerated Water Company - Peatfield

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The bank book shown to the left is from the London City & Midland Bank Ltd. This was a national bank which arrived in Market Rasen in 1913, to end up being HSBC at 10 Market Place. This bank started it's journey in Rasen long before this.

The earliest mention found was in 1835 when H. Lucas, an agent of the Lincoln & Lindsey Bank (formed in Lincoln in 1833) visited the White Hart every Tuesday. This became more of a permanent fixture in town when in 1838 William Rawson of Queen Street became he agent of the bank. 

The first mention of the bank moving to the Market Place was in the Morris Gazette of 1863. Here we see that Henry Bird, Draper and Grocer residing in the Market Place, was also agent of the Lincoln & Lindsey Bank. This means his shop would also have doubled up as a bank.

The Lincoln & Lindsey Bank remained in Rasen up until 1913 when it was merged into the London City & Midland Bank Ltd., with Bertram Armishaw Lowe as Manager over the transition. Only 10 years later this was to become the Midland Bank Ltd on 27 Nov 1923 (as seen on photo).

The Midland Bank then became HSBC in 1992, which then finally closed it's doors in 2015 ending a long history of at least 178 years of the variations of this bank in the town. Also ending a journey of 152 years of it being in the Market Place.

The owner of this bank book was John Wagstaff of Queen Street. At this time John was a Cattle Dealer and was a close acquaintance of Philip Cox, Butcher.

In 1932 they started business together as Cox & Wagstaff butchers

follow the link to read about Cox & Wagstaff Butchers

These horse brasses were by John Ellis of 7 King Street. John was a dealer of brassware and copperware in the 1980s. Many thanks to Becky Devlin and Pip Richards for the horse brasses

1987 advert from the Market Rasen Mail

The name Nettleship & Lucas began in January 1930, when James H. Nettleship and his son in law Victor J. Lucas created the partnership to become "Auctioneers, Valuers & Estate Agents" (as seen in the Market Rasen Mail of the time) in their office at 23 Market Place.

J.H. Nettleship died in 1946 and V.J. Lucas continued running the business until 1953 when the decision was made to amalgamate the company with George Mawer, Cooper & Burkitt to form George Mawer & Co (documented in the Stamford Mercury Jun 1953)

V.J. Lucas remained on the board of the company until 1967

While doing some building work at 23 Market Place, Nima Staniewick came across this ledger book belonging to Nettleship & Lucas from 1931/32 along with a pile of other old documents from the property so thank you so much to Nima for allowing me to take them off his hands

Here are some of the names listed from one entry in the ledger that you may recognise

This is a fabulous example of the many decorative clay pipes created at the Watkinson clay pipe factory. This factory was located in Serpentine Street in Mkt Rasen and was founded by George Spencer Watkinson who came from Grimsby over to Mkt Rasen to start the business c1843. Many thanks to Fee Berry for this particular clay pipe, something I have been wanting in my collection for a while! Fee has also done a blog on her research on the Watkinsons showing other examples of the clay pipes they created. It can be seen here - Lincolnshire Days - Watkinson Clay Pipe Factory in Market Rasen

Although it was George Spencer Watkinson that founded the factory, it was his eldest son George Spencer Jr. that made their business much more interesting than most other pipe manufacturers. Little had been documented on the processes involved around pipe making, until George Spencer Jr. created his journal. The famous Watkinson Journal is a description written by George of the processes from start to finish, from starting to create the shape from clay, to selling and distributing the finished pipes. This also included illustrations. More information on this can be seen here - The Watkinson Journal

Thanks to Truan Randle for the additional clay pipes made at the Watkinson factory  found in Market Rasen

This is George Spencer Watkinson who left Grimsby at the age of 19 to start the clay pipe factory in Market Rasen. Many thanks to Vanessa Cooper 3x great granddaughter of George for allowing me to share this photo

This is George Spencer Watkinson Jr., the eldest son of the gentleman to the left who wrote the journal and continued the business until 1882 when he closed the factory down and moved back to Grimsby with his brothers where he set up a holiday home for needy and sick children in Cleethorpes called "The Birdsnest". Anyone who knows the area might know this as a Chinese restaurant by the boating lake called "The Orient Express". Again many thanks to Vanessa Cooper for allowing me to share the photo.

The company was started by 4 brothers John, George, Reginald and Walter Parsons and a private limited company formed in 1909 with J. Snape being one of the directors. Between 1911 and 1936 the company branched out (information from Lincolnshire Echo 1930), with the earliest mention found of them being in Market Rasen 1930 in Kelly's Directory addressed in Station Yard. The next mention I have is in 1948 at no. 6 Market Place, and then a jump to 1961 they had moved to 40 Queen Street, last seen advertised in a 1982 Market Rasen Mail. The invoice seen in the photo above was from 1910 (the following year after they started) from their Lincoln office

This advert for the company was seen in the Market Rasen Mail in 1960

Curry's Cycle Co. lighting information disc donated by Peter Spilman.

Curry's Cycle Co. started in Leicester in 1888 as a bicycle shop. The  Market Rasen branch opened at 5 Queen Street in 1914 up until somewhere between 1922-26.

As time went on, the two brothers at the head of the company began to add wireless radios and gramophones to the stores to sell. This was done by other bicycle sellers also, as cycling was a good weather summer pastime, and the shops needed custom for the winter months to maintain sales. This trend increased over the years and Currys became the electrical retailers we all know today.

1891 Census shows William Lacey, a Draper in Winterton, Lincolnshire with his sister Dorcas living in the same household and working in the shop.

In the same Census we see Fred Clark as an assistant Draper working for John Rae Spilman, also in Winterton. By 1900 as seen in Kelly’s Directory Lacey & Clark’s had been formed in Winterton, and in 1902 Fred Clark married Dorcas Lacey.

Fred and Dorcas moved to Market Rasen (the 1911 Census shows them living at The Woodlands, Kilnwell Road), and the earliest mention of the shop I have found to date was at 9 Market Place was in 1904. This was the Lincolnshire Echo reporting a tramp stealing trousers from the shop front.

There was also a branch opened in Brigg of which Fred Clark was involved. This was until 1938 when his partnership with Tom Clarke was dissolved, and Tom partnered with William Barton. This could also coincide with the death of William Lacey in 1938. Clarke & Barton continued the business of Lacey & Clark which remained in Brigg until the 1970’s

Meanwhile, the Lacey & Clark shop in Market Rasen continued at 9 Market Place. For  brief period  they also opened a Boot & Shoe store at 12 Queen Street which was acquired from Benjamin Hardy around 1912, but this appears to have been closed in the early 1920s

Fred Clark died in 1947, however Ernest Morley took ownership of the Rasen Market Place branch sometime between 1926 and 1930( Kelly’s Directory 1930 earliest reference found to date of E. Morley as proprietor), later succeeded by his son Douglas until the shop closed in July 1971, when it was decided that the Midland Bank needed to extend. They were at number 10 Market Place and did in fact own the building that included number 9.

Joseph Wilson was born in Mkt Rasen in 1837. He was son of Charles Wilson, a Tailor in the town with shop in Queen Street, and brother to Jessie and Edwin Wilson, both also Tailors. (You will see that another artifact I have is a button from Charles Wilson!)

In the 1851 Census we see Joseph in Lincoln working as a Draper's apprentice in the High St.

By 1861 he was back in Mkt Rasen, married to Martha and working as a Commercial Traveller's Clerk, and then the 1868 Post Office Directory has him down as being a Draper & Grocer in Queen Street.

To be more precise, this was Albion House (41 Queen Street) where he remained for 48 years. He died in 1913 aged 78. 

Walter Sanderson moved into the shop as a Furniture Dealer around 1913.

Many thanks to Nicky for this rare document. This is one of only 2 or 3 Market Rasen advertisement posters  that I have seen.

Walter Heaton Coates was born in Hull in 1875. He came to Market Rasen not long before moving into 2-3 Market Place in 1907, following the occupation of John Woffindin. Many of you will have different memories of the shop over the years, for me it was the large golden key that hung outside! Despite his death in 1964, the shop continued up until 1981/2 when Ron Goodtear took over the premises with his electrical goods shop. Thankyou to Peter Spilman for the bottles.

Adverts for W.H. Coates from 1907 and 1981 both Market Rasen Mail

The first reference I have found is of Charles Sanderson, cabinet maker in King Street from the 1876 Kelly's directory. By the time of the publication of the 1882 White's Directory, he had moved to Jameson Bridge Street. The invoice above is from the firm of Charles H. Sanderson, Joiner, Builder and Undertaker of Jameson Bridge Street in 1911. However, Charles. H. Sanderson died in 1910 but the company continued under the management of W. Sanderson.

From this time, the business ran under the name of C.H. Sanderson until between 1913 and 1918 when the name of W. Sanderson was first seen.

W. Sanderson also opened up a furniture shop in Albion House on Queen Street until 1946 when he disposed of this but kept the family joinery business in Jameson Bridge Street going. 

Advert from a Choral Society magazine in 1913

 Plastic Boxes manufactured by Progressive Inventions Ltd. kindly donated by Freda Proudley. Progressive Inventions Ltd. was established in 1948 by Rasen hairdresser Gordon Trill and his wife Olive in buildings behind their Hairdressers Salon at 16 King Street. Mr Trill's interest in the Plastics industry began with looking for solutions within his hairdressing business. One of his held patents was for a plastic face protector when washing or treating hair (1949). Another later design was a plastic shampoo dispensing brush which then led to the Plastic Box Ltd to be established in the early 1950s with the factory being close to his shop in the yard at the back of the old White Hart. 

 Notelet showing a scene from Mill Lane (now Mill Road) In the bottom right hand side is the name Hackett, Market Rasen. Richard Hackett was a printer and bookseller/bookbinder of Queen Street. He took over an old business from John Hannett in 1854 and was the founder of the Market Rasen Mail in 1856. The advert advertising his business is from a Market Rasen Mail of 1863.

 This was found in a field at the top of Bully Hill. Believed to be brass, from a horses harness showing the name H.C. Boyers, Saddler, Market Rasen. Herbert Cottingham Boyers owned a Saddlery business at 6 Market Place where the former Lloyds bank now stands. His father John bought the business from George Spring following his death in 1864, which originally started at 1 Market Place, but it seems as the business grew he moved to bigger premises to 6 Market Place where the business remained for many years 

This piece I found is part of a plate from the shoe shop owner Fred Dunn. Mr Dunn opened his first shop in Chapel Street. A tiny building next to the railway bridge opposite the entrance to the Railway Station. As business grew he moved to 35 Queen Street. He retired in 1903 and died in 1927 owning 85 stores around the country. The business continued until the 1960s when Co-Op bought all the Dunn stores, and the brand ShoeFayre emerged which was the next name to appear in Queen Street

This is how the full plate looks. This artists image was shown in the Market Rasen Mail in a piece about Fred Dunn in April 1978. I believe that there are still a couple of complete plates known to exist

I later found out that there was a 2nd Dunn plate that was produced. This one came into my possesion recently with many thanks to Gerald Fuller.

I think that perhaps the plate to the left was a comemmorative plate that celebrated him opening the store in Chapel Street c1880. Then the 2nd plate showing the Queen Street address, could have been another comemmorative plate celebrating him moving to the bigger store in Queen Street c1885.

 George Tennyson and Robert Daubney were both "Attourneys" in Rasen.
Robert Daubney however was not certified for his profession until 1821. He started practicing in Grimsby and he didn't appear in Mkt Rasen until around 1828. His father Joseph Daubney however was also a Lawyer and appeared to split his time between Grimsby and Mkt Rasen, and it will be him addressed here.
George Tennyson appeared in Mkt Rasen in around 1774 until his death in 1787. He was a wealthy man who owned several areas of Rasen, also buying Beacons Manor, Tealby, the Manor House that preceded Bayons Manor 

C. Wilson Market Rasen. A Tailor in the town in the 1850s through to the early 1900s. 

As mentioned Charles Wilson was a tailor in the town originally from Louth, his shop being where is now 38 Queen Street ( currently Willow & Wildflower Florist next to Cynthia's hairdressers).