39/26 Coney Street
From the An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central
Houses, Nos. 26, 28, 30, form an L-shaped range, three and four storeys high, enclosing two sides of Judges’ Court. These three houses were probably built between 1830 and 1840; they have been converted to shop premises and much altered. The oldest fittings remaining date from the late 19th century.
Building owned by John Elwick Jnr Merchant Taylor
1780 ? Ellis Milliner
1829 Tailors & Drapers Hollins & Son
1851 John Winn Grocer
1861 Smith Wm, stock & share broker
1861 York Branch of the National Savings Bank Association (limited), William Smith, manager
1870 Henry smith picture dealer
1872 Smith Henry, picture dealer
1876 Smith Henry, picture dealer
1885 Drake & Compy. tobacconists E. W. Purnell proprietor
1886 Drake & Compy. tobacconists E. W. Purnell proprietor
1889 Drake & Co. (E. W. Purnell) tobacconists (see adt)
1893 Drake & Co, tobacconists Purnell Edward William
1895 Drake & Co. tobacconists
Purnell E. W. (Drake & Co.)
1898 Snarry, Mrs., dressmaker
1898 Drake & Co. (E.W. Purnell) tobacconists
Bostock, H. caretaker
1900 Purnell, Edward William
Drake & Co. (E.W. Purnell) tobacconists, see advt.
1902 Purnell, Edward William
From the An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central
Houses, Nos. 26, 28, 30, form an L-shaped range, three and four storeys high, enclosing two sides of Judges’ Court. These three houses were probably built between 1830 and 1840; they have been converted to shop premises and much altered. The oldest fittings remaining date from the late 19th century.
1823 Confectioners Brown William
1829 Watchmakers, Marked † are Jewellers, †Darling Wm
1840 Watchmakers, Marked † are Jewellers, †Darling Wm,
1851 John Horner gardener 42&43
1850 *1851 census note may not practice here just live
Darling & Wood, watch makers
1861 42 Darling William, watchmaker
1872 Darling & Wood, watch makers
1885 42 Darling & Wood, watch and clock makers
1886 Darling & Wood, watch and clock makers
1889 Darling and Wood, watchmakers
1893 Darling & Wood, watch mas
1895 Darling & Wood, watch makers
1898 Darling & Wood, watchmakers
1898 Darling & Wood, watchmakers
1900 Darling & Wood, watchmakers
1902 Darling & Wood, watchmakers
1905 Darling & Wood, watch mas
1913 Darling & Wood, watch mas
1921 Darling & Wood, watch mas
1929 Darling, Wood & Anfield, watch mkrs
1829 Tailors & Drapers Hollins & Son
1850 John Winn Grocer
1861 Henry smith picture dealer
1861 Smith Wm, stock & share broker
1861 York Branch of the National Savings Bank Association (limited), William Smith, manager
1885 Directory of York Drake & Compy. tobacconists E. W. Purnell proprietor until at least 1921
1898 Cook Snarry, Mrs., dressmaker upstairs
1905 London & Paris Exchange Limited, stock brokers & general bankers upstairs
1905 Jackson Dacre Woffindin, corn broker &c upstairs
1920 Watson Duncombe, Geo. A Beckett’s Bank upstairs
Faber, Lord, Beckett’s Bank
Beckett, Wm Gervase, Beckett’s Bank
Beckett, R. E Beckett’s Bank
Townsley, E. Hy Beckett’s Bank
Dalton, H. Edith, Beckett’s Bank
1929 Yvonne, ladies’ hairdrssrs
John Hollins 1776
THE COMPANY OF MERCHANT TAYLORS IN THE CITY OF YORK: REGISTER OF ADMISSIONS 1560-1835
HOLLINS, Hollings John adm. 24 June 1808 (A3, f.44v); searcher 1813-15, 1818-19, 1825-6, 1829-30 (M5, ff.153v, 157r, 161r, 173v, 176r, 202v, 206r; M6, ff.lv, 5r); warden 1819, 1822-3, 1824-5, 1826-7, 1830-1, 1835-6 (M5, ff.177v, 190v, 194r, 198v, 202r, 206v, 211r; M6, ff.5v, 11r, 27r, 29v); Master 1823-4, 1834-5 (M5, ff.195r, 198r; M6, ff.24v, 27r) John the younger son of John H. of York, mt, app. for 7 yrs to his father 11 Feb. 1823 (App.2, f.77v). York. tailor and draper. late app. to John Hollings of York mt, adm. 20 June 1831 (A3, f.49r; M6, Env; App.2, f.77v); searcher 1833 (M6, f.20v)