The Rudmore Road workshop would have been the place by the cinema and hospital. These days when coming into Portsmouth on the M275 then the dual carriage-way, the big roundabout at the end is known as the Rudmore roundabout. The hospital disappeared some years ago. The cinema survived a bit longer. Sainsburys occupies much of the site, but it will all disappear again in the planned Northern Quarter development which saw as a first step the demolition of the hated Tricorn Centre. Cheers, Ian Sharon Davage wrote: > Hi David, > The entry in the 1946 Kellys reads; > JACOBS ALFRED A. LTD. (G.Bowyer, propr.). complete house furnishers, 189& > 191 New Road, Landport: workshop, 1 Rudmore road, st. > kind regards, > Sharon > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Parker" <[email protected]> > To: "Portsmouth List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:20 PM > Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Jacob's > > > >> A newly discovered relative tells me that his father worked as a >> furniture salesman. for, he believes, Jacob's, in Portsmouth It was next >> to a cinema by the Royal Portsmouth Hospital. Can anyone tell me anything >> about the store? >> >> Thank you >> >> >> David >> >>

Hi David. Their was a furniture shop on the north side & adjacent to the Savoy cinema. Whether it was Jacobs or not, I can't recall. Next to that was another building then a car park, for cinema patrons. Not many people I knew in the early 1950's could afford a car. Rudmore road is a good mile further north, opposite the Air Balloon Pub. I spent my childhood in that area. I don't remember any furniture workshop there but, on the corner of Rudmore road was a disused chemist shop with "Franklins" painted above it. My grandfather was born in 15, Rudmore Rd. In 1867. Fitzherbert St, was the road where The Royal Hospital & Savoy cinema stood. Behind the cinema was the Pitt St, sports ground, with a Royal Navy Patrol unit stationed within. (This later became the R.N. Club.) Behind the Hospital were the R.N swimming pool in Flathouse Rd. A little further south of that was the Dockyard College, which I attended during my apprenticeship. Seamus....(tout á fait chevalier) System protected by system mechanics/Kaspersky -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thirlwell Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 5:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Jacob's The Rudmore Road workshop would have been the place by the cinema and hospital. These days when coming into Portsmouth on the M275 then the dual carriage-way, the big roundabout at the end is known as the Rudmore roundabout. The hospital disappeared some years ago. The cinema survived a bit longer. Sainsburys occupies much of the site, but it will all disappear again in the planned Northern Quarter development which saw as a first step the demolition of the hated Tricorn Centre. Cheers, Ian Sharon Davage wrote: > Hi David, > The entry in the 1946 Kellys reads; > JACOBS ALFRED A. LTD. (G.Bowyer, propr.). complete house furnishers, 189& > 191 New Road, Landport: workshop, 1 Rudmore road, st. > kind regards, > Sharon > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Parker" <[email protected]> > To: "Portsmouth List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:20 PM > Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Jacob's > > > >> A newly discovered relative tells me that his father worked as a >> furniture salesman. for, he believes, Jacob's, in Portsmouth It was next >> to a cinema by the Royal Portsmouth Hospital. Can anyone tell me anything >> about the store? >> >> Thank you >> >> >> David >> >> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you Seamus for all the information. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timber" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Jacob's Hi David. Their was a furniture shop on the north side & adjacent to the Savoy cinema. Whether it was Jacobs or not, I can't recall. Next to that was another building then a car park, for cinema patrons. Not many people I knew in the early 1950's could afford a car. Rudmore road is a good mile further north, opposite the Air Balloon Pub. I spent my childhood in that area. I don't remember any furniture workshop there but, on the corner of Rudmore road was a disused chemist shop with "Franklins" painted above it. My grandfather was born in 15, Rudmore Rd. In 1867. Fitzherbert St, was the road where The Royal Hospital & Savoy cinema stood. Behind the cinema was the Pitt St, sports ground, with a Royal Navy Patrol unit stationed within. (This later became the R.N. Club.) Behind the Hospital were the R.N swimming pool in Flathouse Rd. A little further south of that was the Dockyard College, which I attended during my apprenticeship. Seamus....(tout á fait chevalier) System protected by system mechanics/Kaspersky -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thirlwell Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 5:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Jacob's The Rudmore Road workshop would have been the place by the cinema and hospital. These days when coming into Portsmouth on the M275 then the dual carriage-way, the big roundabout at the end is known as the Rudmore roundabout. The hospital disappeared some years ago. The cinema survived a bit longer. Sainsburys occupies much of the site, but it will all disappear again in the planned Northern Quarter development which saw as a first step the demolition of the hated Tricorn Centre. Cheers, Ian Sharon Davage wrote: > Hi David, > The entry in the 1946 Kellys reads; > JACOBS ALFRED A. LTD. (G.Bowyer, propr.). complete house furnishers, 189& > 191 New Road, Landport: workshop, 1 Rudmore road, st. > kind regards, > Sharon > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Parker" <[email protected]> > To: "Portsmouth List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:20 PM > Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Jacob's > > > >> A newly discovered relative tells me that his father worked as a >> furniture salesman. for, he believes, Jacob's, in Portsmouth It was >> next >> to a cinema by the Royal Portsmouth Hospital. Can anyone tell me >> anything >> about the store? >> >> Thank you >> >> >> David >> >> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HAM-PORTSMOU[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message