Category Archives: Commerce

It is over a century since the Talbot family business was formed in Coxhoe and it still survives today.  Thomas Talbot Senior is recorded in the 1911 Census as living in Prospect Place, Coxhoe with wife Mary Jane and family William, Elizabeth, Jane and Matthew.  Aged 15, son William’s recorded employment is a ‘carter’ –Continue reading “Thomas Talbot & Sons”

A well established and much loved business on Church Street, Coxhoe , Wilsons Hardware & Fancy Goods closed its doors for the final time in the early 1980’s. Trading for over 60 years Wilsons was one of those stores where you could find a wide variety of goods from haberdashery to baseball boots to jeansContinue reading “Wilsons Hardware & Fancy Goods”

The first messengers in Britain were probably the Romans.  Their roads were well used later by delivery people on horseback.  As they became more popular, routes were established and coaching inns were used to rest horses and break up the journey.  The Clarence Villa (Kicking Cuddy) was a coaching inn in Coxhoe as was TheContinue reading “The Post Office”

In 1920 William Wilson (treasurer of the Cornforth & Coxhoe Co-operative Society), wrote a brief account of its history in the form of a booklet ‘Jubilee Souvenir of Cornforth & Coxhoe Co-operative Society Ltd. 1870-1920’, published by Pelaw-on Tyne: Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works. Men then employed at Tursdale Coke Ovens had heard about theContinue reading “Coxhoe And Cornforth Co-operative Society Ltd.”