Crafting The Past
Judges Court Coney Street York

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

watchmakers in Coney Street York

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)