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F.E. HOLLYER

Eton College









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JOHN JACKSON

Palmerston Road, Southsea


BURGLAR'S BOOTY

The premises of Mr. John Jackson, jeweller, Palmerston-road, Southsea, were entered during Friday night by burglars, who stole property valued at £2,000. No arrests have been made.

Source: Evening Express - 25th January 1895

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ANDREW KING

West Malling, Kent


A coroner's jury at West Malling, Kent, has returned a verdict of death from natural causes in the case of Mr. Andrew King, a well-known local jeweller. On Sunday last he was spinning for pike in the Medway, and on meeting a friend stopped to relate an amusing experience he had had with live bait. He laughed heartily and suddenly fell dead. A post-mortem showed that Mr. King's heart was five times the normal size and larger than that of a bullock. Death, it was stated, resulted from heart disease.

Source: Morning Leader - October 1901

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HAMMOND NICHOLLS

Parade, Canterbury



Hammond Nicholls - Canterbury - 1789

Noted as bankrupt in 1794.

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OWEN JACKSON

Tenterden, Kent



Owen Jackson - Tenterden - 1771

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DOUGLAS DRAYSON

Sandwich, Kent


At Deal, Douglas Drayson, jeweller, Sandwich, was sentenced to six weeks for stealing a portmanteau from the station.

Source: The Cambrian - 15th April 1898

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WILLIAM CHARMAN

High Street, Epsom, Surrey



W. Charman - Epsom - Undated

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HODGES

Maidstone, Kent


SUSPICIOUS CONDUCT OF JEWELLERS

The principals, named Hodges, of a jewellery business at Maidstone, have been apprehended and remanded till Saturday, on a charge of being in possession of moulds used for the manufacture of spurious sovereigns. The Treasury intend to prosecute.

Source: South Wales Daily News - 18th December 1878

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JACKSON

High Street, Fareham


Daring Jewellery Robbery

At about one o'clock on Tuesday morning Mr. Jackson, a large and fashionable jeweller, carrying on business in the High-street, Fareham, near Portsmouth, on looking out of his bedroom window, saw a man spring from the shop window with an armful of the costliest stock, amounting in value to £500. The thief made good his escape, although hit by a stool thrown by Mr. Jackson.

Source: The Weekly Mail - 28th March 1887

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G.H. DE LA COUR

Chatham, Kent


James Farrell Alexander has been committed for trial on the charge of obtaining jewelry to the value of £43 by false pretences from G. H. De la Cour, jeweler, Chatham, by representing himself as belonging to the firm of Messrs. Alexander Bros., 16, Hatton Garden.

Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st October 1891

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C.J. HALL

102c, High Street, Bromley, Kent



C.J. Hall - Bromley - 1916

Late Towns.


The town of Bromley in Kent county has experienced five smash-and-grab jewelry raids this month, the latest victim being C. J. Hall, whose jewelry store on High St. was robbed of wrist watches and rings this week. The thieves arrived and escaped in an automobile. Retailers are highly indignant at the alleged inefficiency of the police in coping with the raiders.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th July 1927

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J. (JOSEPH?) COMBER

5, Chertsey Road, Woking, Surrey



J. Comber - Woking - 1917


J. Comber - Woking - 1917


Small Men For The Tanks

At Woking Tribunal Mr. J. Comber, watchmaker and jeweller applied for watchmaker and optical repairer, single 30, who was rather short. Military wanted men of five feet to go in the tanks. Application dismissed, notice of appeal given.

Source: Surrey Times and County Express - 13th October 1916

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W.E. GREEN

Bell Street, Reigate, Surrey



W.E. Green - Reigate - Undated

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JOHN MAY

47, Masons Hill, Bromley, Kent



John May - Bromley - 1916

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T.E. RUSSELL

29, Chertsey Road, Woking, Surrey



T.E. Russell - Woking - 1921

Established in 1887.

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THOMAS NICKALLS

High Street, Reigate, Surrey



Thomas Nickalls - Reigate - Undated

Established in 1840.

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H.T. WATERFIELD

7, St. Peter's Street, Canterbury



H.T. Waterfield - Canterbury - 1917


The business of Henry Tween Waterfield. He was in business from at least 1896, likely succeeding that of Charles Ephraim James.


James Boylan, a private in the 9th Lancers, was charged with stealing a gent's diver watch valued at 27s. 6d., the property of Henry Tween Waterfield, watchmaker and jeweller, of 7, St. Peter’s street, Canterbury.

Henry Tween Waterfield, living at 7, St. Peter’s Street, and carrying on business as a watchmaker and jeweller, stated that prisoner came into his shop at 10.30 on Saturday night. Witness showed him the watch produced. He looked at it and then asked to see one that opened in front. While he was showing him another one prisoner ran out of the shop with the watch produced. Witness followed him and caught him outside the Cricketers’ Arms in St. Peter’s street and detained him. The watch was subsequently shown to him by Sergeant Swain and he identified it as his property. The value of the watch was 27s. 6d. Sergt. Swain stated that at 10.35 p.m. on Saturday the 8th inst. he was passing Messrs. Welby and Co’s, shop in St. Peter’s street when he saw the watch produced lying on the pavement. He picked it up. He saw a crowd outside the “Cricketers” public house and prisoner being detained by the last witness. Witness took him into custody on the charge of stealing the watch. At the police station he said "I do not know anything about a watch."

The prisoner pleaded guilty and said he had nothing to say.

A captain of the 5th Lancers said prisoner only came out of prison on Friday the 7th March after undergoing forty-two days' imprisonment for desertion. The magistrates sentenced prisoner to six weeks’ hard labour.

Prisoner was then charged with being an absentee from the 9th Lancers.

Sergt. Swain proved the charge, and the Bench ordered prisoner to he handed over to the military authorities at the completion of the six weeks.

Source: Whitstable Times - 1st March 1902

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C.F. PFEIL

20, The Broadway, Bromley, Kent



C.F. Pfeil - Bromley - 1916


C.F. Pfeil - Bromley - 1924

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FRANK A. PARSONS

23, Chobham Road, Woking, Surrey



Frank A. Parsons - Woking - 1921

Established in 1902.

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ROBERT SALSBURY & SONS

56, later, due to renumbering (1-1-1961) 77-81, High Street, Guildford, Surrey



R. Salsbury & Sons - Guildford - 1903


R. Salsbury & Sons - Guildford - 1906

Established in c.1870.

Thought to have been acquired by the Ernest Jones chain.

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