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1865: Ground plan of property, wharehouse office and work shops of a cabinet maker
belonging to Richardson and saons in Litle Albion Street and Bond Street.
The Premises and goodwill of Messrs Richardson & Sond Csabinet Makers with Frontage in litle albion Street, Bond Street31-35 Bontinbg Green Court and Waltham Street.
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1854 Dec 22nd Subsciptions to Patriotic Fund £ s d Richardson & Sons, Cabinet makers 4 4 0 Ditto workmen employed at their works in Bond Street 7 11 0 Ditto workmen employed at their works in Castle Street 4 11 6
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Yorkshire Gazette 3rd March 1894 Richardson & Sons, Cabinet Manufacturers 31,32,33,34 and 35 Bond Street, Hull Great clearance of Furniture. |
1895 Trades Directory
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| Hull Daily Mail, 26th June 1914, page 10 |
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| RICHARDSONS, BOND STREET; This Establishment employs a reputation extending back to the reign of George III, six reigns, It is always a pleasure to visit this establishment, with its history dating back over a century, What memories of old Hull worthies a visit conjures up - of men who have risen up amongst us and played their part in our life. When the late beloved Majesty visited Hull, rooms were fitted up for her by Richardson's At the Guildhall today are guilt chairs, made for Her Majesty on that occasion which were afterwards presented to the corporation as souvenirs. A gift from this famed emporium, Bond Street, consequently, had a double value, for well the sentiment attaching to it the firm retained their reputation for the finest in design and for splendid workmanship, in every home there is always something that needs replenishing, and most useful gifts can be selected from Messrs Richardson's large and choice stock. A luxurious easy chair, for instance, but there are many other articles that will tempt the visitor of the best value and at a prices that will be thought reasonable, for the best materials and workmanship, and are always assured and the confidence of the public is never replaced |
By 1851 its clear the Firm of Richardson and sons had become a major player
in the supply of high class furniture by expansion in Bond street.
an further enhanced from about 1855 by patronage of Sir Clifford and Lady Constable
(a seal of approval as good locally as by Royal appointment?)
Following the death of Lady constable, in 1862, the Richardson's good fortune was
further enhanced by Constable's new Mistress "Lady Rosina" who is said to have
spent £11,000 with the firm
to furnish Dunbar House her "Love Nest" in Teddington, London.
An indication as to her extravagance with Richardson on Sons came to light in 1871,
following the death of Sir Clifford Constable,
when it became clear that Constable Estate was near to Bankruptcy.
A Chancery Hearing followed to apportion debts between Lady Rosina and
Sir Clifford's Heirs, at which the many trade suppliers where forced to provide a detailed account
of items supplied.
Richardson & Sons, 34 Bond Street Hull, Yorks,
Successors to their late father Thomas Richardson
Their Best documented commission was to supply furniture to Burton Constable, Yorks,
for Sir Thomas Clifford-Constable (1807-1870) and his sisters.
In the early 1860's Sir Clifford also furnished a house in Hull for a Mrs Montagu,
with whom he had become infatuated, and the furniture was also supplied by Richardsons.
His wife died in Dec 1862.
Later Sir Clifford re-married 22nd April 1865 St George Hanover Square London,
to spinster Rosina Brandon (born 1833)
and they bought a Villa in Teddington,
After his death in December 1870 the Teddington Villa was left to to his widow Rosina ,
who then stripped Burton Constable Hall of the furnishings she fancied.
The removal was done by Richardsons, who at the same time
renovated the furniture and also supplied new items
This triggered a Chancery Action, and it emerged that the Richardson's Bill was the
largest of all the suppliers, at £ 11,366 10s 5d, Much of this is detailed in
the Richardson's account, dated 1st January 1870, It was suspected, but not proved,
that Richardsons was involved in a deliberate plan to defraud the Estate.
Eventually the Furniture removed from Burton Constable was returned, and much of it survives.
The Chancery Division specialises in civil disputes, including disputes relating to business,
property or land, intellectual property issues, insolvency, bankruptcy, tax and the validity of wills.
| Leeds Mercury, Friday 7th March 1873, page 4 |
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| Cost of Furnishing a House Mr Milward Q.C. of the Common Law Bar and Mr. Naider, appeared in this case for the Executors, of the late Clifford Constable. He said that he had to move the Mr. William Richardson, Upholsterer Hull, claiming to be a creditor of the Testator for £ 8,600., might be ordered to attend the special Examiner, and answer the questions put to him. Mr. Richardson had been brought before the Examiner and had refused to answer certain questions in cross-examination, In his books he charged various sums for his time and expenses while acting as the go-between of Lady Constable and the tradesmen in London. The learned Council then proceeded to read the eidence given by Mr. Richardson in cross-examination . He was questioned with reference to the purchase by Lady Constable of a pianoforte, in a black and Gold case, from Erard's for 760 guineas. The object of the examination was to prove that the piano was not purchased untll after Sir Clifford constable's death. When questioned as to this and other transactions in which he acted as the agent of Lady Constable. Mr Richardson had refused, on the advice of his council, not to answer. He did this on the grounds that he was not bound to answer any question not connected '''''''' |
| Hull Packet, Friday 30th May 1873, page 7 |
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| District News The Lord Justices The Case of Constable V Constable was again heard. The Case which is of considerable interest came today before their Lordships Mr. Bristow Q.C. with whom was Mr. Francis, appeared for Mr.Richardson, an upholsterer,of Hull for the purpose of obtaining an order from their Lordships releasing him from the necessity of answering certain questions put to him in the course of Cross-examination at the Law Institution Mr. Glasse Q.C., Mr. Milward Q.C. (of the the common law bar) and Mr. Naider appeared for the executor under the Will of the late Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable and resisted the application. Mr. Richardson claims against the Testator's Estate upwards of £8,500 for Furniture and upholstery etc supplied to Lady Clifford,partly in accordance with the instructions given by the Testator during his lifetime and partly at the order of Lady Clifford (his wife) since his death , and in accordance with the terms of the Testators Codicil. Under this Codicil the Testator charged his Estate with the cost of Furnishings for his wife, Dame Rosina Clifford Constable, at her Order. Dunbar House Teddington. The Executors appointed under the WILL resisted the claim on the Grounds of Extravagance, and Vice Chancellor Nains instructed an inquiry into expenditure. Under his Honour's decree an examination of Creditors has been going on for some time at the LAW Institution . Mr Richardson's examination lasted upwards of four days, and amongst the questions asked of him was whether 750 Guineas was a reasonable sum for Messrs, Erard to charge for a pianoforte in Ebony and Gold case. Mr Richardson, through his council refused to answer this question on the grounds of irrelevancy, that the council representing the executors supported the right to press their question, there being an item of 214 in his bill for attending London and Giving instructions to Messrs Erard. The Lords Justice, without calling on the other side to reply, said the inquiry being held at the Law Institution was a mandatory inquiry as to what was to be paid by the Testators Estate and what by Lady Clifford. The Executor were not going to worry witnesses unnecessarily but were of the opinion that the enquiry could not be stopped. |
Note: more about The Constable court case can be found in
Burton Constable Hall, by Ivan and Elizabeth Hall ISBN 1-872167-22-5
from Hutton Press and Hull City Museums and Art Galleries
EXTRACT:- To the credit of Hull we must place the largest furniture manufactory in the Kingdom, viz., that of Messrs. Richardson and Sons, Bond St.My thanks to Arthur G. Gredland of Hull Museums for appraising me of James Joseph Sheahan's Book 'The History of Kingston Upon Hull'
Every article of first class furniture, suitable either for the church, the palace or the mansion , is designed and manufactured here from the rough log, and carried out to the utmost finish and polish; and it is a somewhat remarkable circumstance that mansions are furnished by the Messrs. Richardson, not only in every part of this kingdom; but in many parts of the European and American continents.
The business was founded in 1812 by the late Mr. Richardson, who is reputed to have been one of the best cabinet makers of the day, and who procured for his 3 sons ( the members of the present firm ) the means of acquiring a practical knowledge of every department of the furnishing trade. Hence the superior excellence of this establishment.
The premises consists chiefly of four blocks of buildings, extending backwards from Bond street to Waltham Street. Three of these blocks are three stories in height.
The front cabinet showrooms measure above a 100 square feet and the two upper stories, which contain galleries, are lighted by a glass dome.
In allusion to the stock in this establishment, a writer, a few years ago said that
"For quality variety and richness, it bears the palm of excellence over all others. The showrooms (he adds) may be termed curiosities of the industrial arts for they contain specimens of the carvers skills that astonish by their marvellous beauty, and comprise every article, we should imagine, that invention has furnished, in cabinet goods, from the earliest to the present times."
We must certainly endorse this extract. The stock is now too most extensive and superb in every department.**
The factory at the rear of the ware-rooms , is replete with excellent machinery, much of which is peculiar to the establishment, having been either invented or improved by the proprietors themselves The number of hands employed by Messrs. Richardson, including upholsterers, carvers, Gilders, Polishers, Painters, Decorators, Paper hangers etc amount to at least 150.
The Firm had the range of skills, materials and machinery for large and prestigious undertakings, including the Council Chamber of Hull's Town Hall in 1863.
Note: In passing through the ware rooms we noticed the three beautiful chairs which were made for the throne, when her Majesty the Queen visited Hull in 1854 (see pg185) and amongst many other beautiful objects we observed a magnificent Marquetry table of Chinse manufacture - a rare curiosity, supposed to be 300 years old, and believed to have belonged to one of the Palaces of the late Emperor. It is inlaid with figures in ivory, illustrative of the manors and customs of the people of the " Celestial Empire". We likewise noticed a cabinet of a somewhat similar character, as well as a curious Japanese Cabinet,
The Messrs Richardson have just completed an elegant case composed of about 500 pieces of of different kinds of wood, in small sections arranged geometrically; which filled with 38 samples of the principle corn and Oleaginous sees grown in or imported into England, having been forwarded by Messrs F. Helmsing and Co. to the Commisioner de la Society Imperial Echonomique, St Petersburg, by request.
| Hull Daily Mail, Thursday, 12th November 1903, page 6 |
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| GREAT SALE OF CARPETS, Richardson & Sons, Bond Street Hull, intended clearing before the end of the year Large and Varied Stock of Carpets, to do this Prices will be greatly reduced, inspection invited. |
The Will of William Richardson who died in 1907 left a large number of bequests to Employees and Charities and his house to his House-keeper, with any residue going to the executors William Parker Birkinshaw and George Hodgson.
| Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 16 July 1910 |
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ON THURSDAY, July 28th 1910, AT LOW RESERVES TO CLOSE THE ESTATE. HULL. EXTENSIVE PREMISES AND GOODWILL OF THE BUSINESS OF The OLD ESTABLISHED and Renowned firm Messrs. RICHARDSON and SONS, Cabinet makers, (which will in the first instance be offered as one lot, and if not disposed of, then in the following or such other lots as shall be determined on the time of sale.):- Lot 1. - A COMMANDING BLOCK of three large floors and basement, with excellent light, used as Sale Shop and Show Rooms. Also the Offices, Workshops, Store-rooms, etc., adjoining This lot numbered 31 to 35. Bond Street, has a frontage about 86 feet to that street, and extends to Little Albion Street, which the frontage is about 83 feet. The total quantity land is about 898 square yards. Lot 2. - Modern Corner Block of Four Floors, well and substantially built, with the following frontages, Little Albion Street, about 55 feet; Bowling Green Court, about 45 feet. The total quantity of Land is about 277 square yards. This Lot is used as Show rooms, Workshops and Furniture Stores. Lot 3. - WORKSHOPS OF 3 FLOORS (well built), and Yard, situate the west side Little Albion Street (adjoining Lot 2); Quantity of land about 321 square yards, frontage about 58 ¾ feet. Lot 4. - EXTENSIVE WORKSHOPS, situate the east side Waltham Street (adjoining Lot 3.) Area of land about 321 square yards, frontage about 58 ¾ feet, Lots 1 to 3 are Freehold, and Lot 4 copyhold of the Manor Myton (practically equal to Freehold). Lithographed Plans and particulars and orders to view may be obtained from the Auctioneers, Bowl-Ally Lane, Hull. N. EASTON and SON are instructed to sell by AUCTION the above properties, at their Mart, Imperial Chambers, Bowl-ally Lane, Hull, on Thursday 28th July 1910 at 2:30pm prompt, subject to conditions which may be seen three days prior to the day of sale, on application to Messrs, HOLDEN, SONS and HODGSON, Solicitors, Trinity House Lane, Hull. |
Richardson's Bond Street premises were bought in 1915 by Edwin Davis Co. , whose
own premises in Market Place had been damaged by a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin.
Newspaper reports of this early raid were suppressed at the time.
| Halifax Evening Courier, Saturday, 21st December 1918, page 3 |
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| The First Raid on Hull,
About midnight on Sunday (June 6th 1915) a Zeppelin passed over Hull, dropping a considerable number of
bombs in various parts of the City, firing a large drapery establishment and a Timber Yard, causing the
deaths of 24 and injuring about 50 persons, chiefly women and children, and wrecking a large number of houses.
Nearly all the sufferers were poor people, and it is a remarkable fact tat, with the exception of
the Drapery Stores and a few warehouses, the property destroyed or damaged was of the poorest description.
The Airship appears to have passed over Bridlington Bay, following the railway line from Hornsea to Hull, and after attacking the City , returned by way of the Humber, taking a course between Immingham and Grimsby to the sea. The first bombs were dropped near Southcoates Station on the Holderness Road. They fell upon some working-class tenement houses in Walter Street, the backs of which run parallel to the station, and smashed them to pieces, killing several persons and injuring many more. One Terrace in this street, containing 14 houses, was almost completely demolished. From Southcoates the Airship sailed towards Dansom Lane, where an Incendiary bomb was thrown upon Messrs Hewitt & Co.'s timber yard, which was soon in a blaze, and several adjoining houses were partially demolished. The Airship then went in the direction of Rank's great flour Mills in Clarence Street, and a bomb was thrown upon a row of cottages in East Street, where three persons were buried in the Debris. A Boy named Edward Jordon was literally blown to pieces. From this point the raider steered over Church Street near Drypool Green, and laid a number of houses in ruins. A corner house abutting upon Church Street and St Paul's Avenue had both walls of both Storey completely torn out, leaving one of the bedroom floors sloping at a dangerous angle. Several substantial front houses, each containing six to eight rooms, were completely destroyed, but although there were injuries to Residents, not a single life was lost here. From Church Street the Airship crossed the River Hull, sailed in the vicinity of the General Post Office, and dropped a bomb into Queens Dock besides the new Guildhall. In this part of the town excited crowds were shouting and scurrying for shelter as explosion followed Explosion. When the commotion was at its height incendiary bombs were dropped upon the great Drapery Establishment of Edwin Davis and Co., in Market Place, which immediately burst into flames, and within a few minutes explosive missiles were wrecking warehouses and offices in the neighboring High Street. Church's Narrow Escape Holy Trinity Church, adjoining, had a marvellous escape. Only a few yards separated the burning building from the south side of the Historic Church - In Fact the flames were scorching its venerable walls and cracking its windows - while on the north side a shell had been dropped on the roof of the Corn Exchange Hotel, but failed to Explode, and was handed over to the Military Authorities.The fire at the Drapery Establishment defied all efforts to subdue it. It lite up the entire area of Central Hull, and the conflagration was at its height before berore the Zeppelin left the City. Despite the efforts of the special constables to close te streets, thousands of people from all directions flocked to the scene, where also the fire brigade promptly appeared, with companies of soldiers to help the firemen. There was no use pouring water upon the burning shops, They were a red hot mass, and every wall and pillar was gradually falling, bringing storey after storey to the ground. Happily in a couple of hours, all danger of the fire spreading was removed, and the Old Church was safe. Fortunately there were no employees on the Drapery shop premises, otherwise the result would have been appalling. Messrs Davies' loss was afterwards estimated at £100,000. |
 The L9 Zeppelin which Raided Hull |
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In the Old Town Area enormous damage was done to small house property between
the Market Place and the High Street. One bomb bored a hole fully 20ft in diameter
in front of the premises of Messrs J.Good ^& Sons, completely blocking the street.
Many old buildings wereshaken to their foundations and doomed to destruction; in fact
, nearly all the houses in Grimsby Lane presented a shattered front of broken glass,
Further south off Queen street which is a continuation of Market Place to the Pier
there was loss of life as well as wreckage of old property.
Three boys named Mullins at 39 Blanket-Row were badly burnt in a fire caused
by an incendiary bomb.
From the Old Town the Zeppelin crossed the Queens Dock near Wilberforce Monument, over the electric power station of the City Tramways undertaking, and bombs were dropped in Albert Terrace, Pease Street, Porter Street and Walker Street. The Bomb in Albert Terrace did not completely explode,and a soldier living near poured water over it and handed it to the Police. Three bombs fell in Porter Street. The house, 2, Sarah Ann's place was set in a blaze, and Mrs Emma Pickering, a widow, 68 years of age was burnt tp death. At the house 22, Edwins Place Mrs. Georgina Cunningham, 27 years of age, was killed in her bed, a bomb passing through her bedroom and wrecking the house next door. Her child who lay beside her was uninjured; but her husband did not escape. He was terribly crushed, and taken to the infirmary. At No.21 a painter named William Watson, aged 67, and his wife, Annie Watson, aged 58 were instantly killed and so badly mutilated that indentification was extremley difficult. The House was practically blown up. The Porter Street district furnished a striking example of the difference between the effect of high explosive bombs and that of incendiary bombs. In Edwins Place a bomb of of the former type dropped on a cottage, the little house as well as those either side of it, was completely destroyed. All the houses in the court, perhaps 20 in all, were very much damaged and rendered uninhabitable, and a number of persons were injured. Roofs were stripped off, widows and doors blown in , and furniture and crockery smashed. Two well known streets in West Hull - South Parade and Campbell Street suffered badly at the hands of ther Raider , and several persons werew killed. In Campbell Street a block of front houses, with a terrace running off the street, all lying between St. Thomas's Church and Messrs Holme's Tannery, were tumbled into ruins. The Roof and north side of the church were dismantled and score of window in the Tannery and adjacent houses were broken. The House 2 at Thomas Terrace was terribly smashed from roof to floor. The occupants Wm, Walker, aged 62 a tanners labourer, with his two daughters, Alice Priscilla, aged 30, and Millicent, aged 17 were killed outright, and his wife was conveyed to the Navel Hospital seriously injured. In South Parade an incendiary bomb struck the house occupied by Mr. Maurice Richardson setting it on fire, and his don Maurice, aged 11, and daughter Violet, aged 3 perished in the flames. The Zeppelin then steered a course along Alanby Road dropping several bombs in Coltman Street and Constable Street, where little damage was done. A Shell was dropped in a field opposite the Alanby GardenVillage Estate , which lies in the direction of the Spring Head Water Works, and at this point the Airship seems to have turned and followed the Humber towards the East. |
| Hull Daily Mail, Wednesday 16th June 1915, page 3 |
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| PUBLIC NOTICE, We have bought the entire stock and have taken the Premises of RICHARDSON & Sons, Bond Street. the Stock consists of Furniture & Carpets, The Quality and Make need comment, They are well known throughout the City and District. We Shall offer the whole at Great Reduction to clear Quickly in order to make room for our new Drapery Stock. Full particulars and date of sale will shortly be given. EDWIN DAVIS Co. Limited, Bond Street, Hull. |
| Hull Daily Mail, Friday 2nd July 1915, page 5 |
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| MONDAY and TUESDAY we shall offer the remains of Messrs. RICHARDSON & Sons,
Furniture & Carpet Stock, SWEEPING REDUCTIONS as All must be cleared. EDWIN DAVIS & Co. Limited, Bond Street. |
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