Catalogue description SCHOFIELDS (YORKSHIRE) LTD. DEPARTMENT STORE, SHEFFIELD

This record is held by Sheffield City Archives

Details of SY/492/B
Reference: SY/492/B
Title: SCHOFIELDS (YORKSHIRE) LTD. DEPARTMENT STORE, SHEFFIELD
Description:

Records of the department store of Schofields (Yorkshire) Ltd., Angel St., Sheffield (formerly T.B. and W. Cockayne Ltd.)
Date: 1872-1977
Held by: Sheffield City Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Schofields (Yorkshire) Ltd, of Sheffield

TB and W Cockaynes Ltd, Sheffield, 1889-1972
Physical description: 22 Series
Access conditions:

Records are open for consultation unless otherwise indicated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited November/December 1982

 

On abolition of South Yorkshire County Council on 31 March 1986, the records passed from South Yorkshire County Record Office, by agreement of the four South Yorkshire District Councils, to the custody of Sheffield Archives as lead authority
Subjects:
  • Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1829 Thomas Bagshawe Cockayne and William Cockayne, the sons of William Cockayne, flax dresser, opened a draper's shop at 1 Angel St. The company was incorporated in 1899 by which time it had expanded into a large department store with its own cabinet making factory. This store was destroyed together with many of the company's records in the Sheffield Blitz of December 1940. The company continued to trade, utilizing various premises in the centre of Sheffield, and were able to reopen the first phase of the new store on the old site in 1949. The final phase of rebuilding was completed in 1955.

 

In 1972 T.B. and W. Cockaynes Ltd was taken over by Schofields (Leeds) Ltd and the name of the store changed to Schofields. The store closed in November 1982

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