Stoke Road..... Howard Place & Snow Hill

Howard Place buildings

shops on Howard Place

  1881 Census details:

HOWARD PLACE
173  Fanny Eason, age 24, occupation: Greengrocer; daughter age 6; also boarder age 40 - cratemaker.
(Fanny Eason's is the 'Al Sheik's Restaurant')

175 Eliza Scarratt, age 57, occupation: Tobacconist; daughter age 35 Potters Paintress; also Son in Law age 34 - Warehouseman.

177  Thos. Charlesworth, age 26, occupation: Clark, Baptist local preacher; Wife age 30 Grocer shopkeeper; also boarder age 22 - watchmaker.

179 William Brandon, age 62, occupation: Traveller Ceramic Art; Wife age 61, Daughters ages 29, 26, 23, Son age 18 - Clerk; also St age 24.
(William Branson's is the double fronted house at the right hand side of the photo.)

Robert Scrivener built his Howard Place offices and a house in the late 1860's and was also responsible for the gradual development of the other houses in Wellesley street. His three sons Edward Elvine, Robert George and Alexander all joined the firm.
Scriveners were responsible for the Queens Hotel which eventually became Hanley's Town Hall and also the Mechanics' Institution. 

Previously the Offices of Scrivener and Sons, Architects
(now refurbished as flats)

On the corner of Wellesley Street and Howard Place, 
note that in order to stay in keeping with the surrounding buildings
Robert Scrivener designed the building with yellow brick on the Wellesley Street
side and red brick on the Howard Place side.

Howard Place sign
on the front of the Scrivener offices

The Telegraph Motor & Cycle Co.

The pictures on the 1912 letterhead are of the showroom in Piccadilly, Hanley and the
workshop in Howard Place, Shelton
NOTE: to the right of the Howard Place picture is "BERKS WHOLESALE GROCER" as in the pictures below.

Bassetts Motor Cycle Shop

the buildings in this photo (2008) are little changed from that from 1912 in the letterhead above. A second story has been added to the motorcycle shop. 

Mr Berks a wholesale grocer ( a member of the Wesleyan Methodists) lived and operated his business from the premises on the corner of Snow Hill, Howard Place and Shelton New Road. He then had "The Elms" built for his new home. The Elms does not appear on the 1868 plan but is shown on the OS map of 1877 when the Grove House Estate was being developed.
 

Photo (2000) taken from Wellesley Street

Old Postcard looking from Howard Place to Snow Hill 
Berks Grocer on the left, this postcard included The Elms,
which was Mr Berks home.

The Elms in 2008 - one Mr Berks home
At one time The Elms was used as an annex to the 
nearby Cauldon Collage, now (2008) it is a restaurant.