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Title: Simes the Saddler [Go to resource]
Description: The firm was founded by Martin Beckett Simes who was born in 1826 in Devon and came to Aldershot in the 1850s and set up his own business in the 1870s as a saddler. Later the business included leather goods, luggage and sports equipment and several shops were opened. The founder died in 1918 and was followed by his 2 sons and grandson. The business was sold in 1982 to E. Harrington (Wholesale) Ltd. of Aldershot and both shops, in Wellington Street, closed in 1990s License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Subjects: Simes the Saddler
shops
E. Harrington (Wholesale) Ltd
leather goods
Wellington Street
Martin Beckett Simes
saddlersTemporal: start=1826-01-01; end=1986-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: Richard Simes Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Go to resource More Like this...
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