292 on shoulder
Photo courtesy: Kane Sloan.
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THE LONDON COMPANY
Johnson Woolsey Spackman was born in 1850, in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, son of Dr. Frederic Robert Spackman M.D. (1819-1892) and wife Caroline Harriet Johnson. His parents had married in 1844 but his mother Caroline died towards the end of 1859. His father Frederic married again to Eliza Jane Wright in 1862. Johnson began his career as a clerk in a London House whilst still living at the family home Bower House in Harpenden. By 1873 he was a Wine Broker in the firm of Davies, Spackman & Co. in partnership with Charles Thomas Davies at 4 Little Tower Street, London E.C. That partnership was dissolved 31 December 1878, to be carried on by Spackman on his own account as Spackman & Co. at the same address. By 1881, still at home, he was a Wine Broker employing 4 clerks. In 1882 there were wine imports arriving in Bristol for Spackman & Co. and in the London Daily News that year there was a short report by the firm on the Wine Trade Customs and Excise returns. In June 1883 Spackman & Co. noved from Little Tower Street to 5 Idol Lane. By 1884 Johnson had moved his home address to 15 Park Road, West Dulwich, Surrey. By 1886 the compant was trading as Spackman & Dent at 5 Idol Lane, having brought Stanley Marseille Dent into the partnership. In 1888 Johnson joined Halsey Lodge of Freemasons, St. Albans. Johnson married Mary Helen Onions, at Drayton in Hales, Shropshire, on 29 August 1889.
Johnson Woolsey Spackman of The Dene, Harpenden, Herts. died on 24 February 1927.
Stanley Marseille Dent was born in 1861 at Balham Grove, baptised at Holy Trinity, Upper Tooting, Surrey on 22 Oct. son of Stanley Dent, wine merchant, and wife Anna. He married a merchant's daughter, Edith Emily Holloway at All Saints Church, Highgate, London on 19 October 1887. He started out as clerk in his father's firm of Dent, Urwick & Dent, Wine & Brandy Merchants, (Dissolved 31 Dec.1884, later Dent, Urwick & Yeatman), 34 Great Tower Street, E.C. but by 1886 had joined Johnson W. Spackman. Stanley Dent senior retired from Dent, Urwick & Dent on 31 August 1888. In 1891 Stanley M. Dent was visiting Wine Merchant William Dent, (son Basil) of Dent, Urwick & Dent. Stanley M. Dent, of 13 Westbourne Street, Hyde-Park, Middlesex, died on 11 December 1926.
From the London Gazette - 12 October 1937, page 6334: "NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between William Dent, Basil William Dent, Richard Wentworth McCreadie Godson and Derek Marseille Dent carrying on business under the name of DENT, URWICK &YEATMAN of No. 34 Great Tower Street, E.C. has been dissolved as from the 30th day of September 1937 so far as concerns the said William Dent who retires from the said firm. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said Basil William Dent, Richard Wentworth McCreadie Godson and Derek Marseille Dent who will continue to carry on the said business in partnership under the style of " Dent, Urwick & Yeatman. '—Dated 8th October 1937."
Richard W. Godson was Chairman of Dent, Urwick & Yeatman Ltd. when that company was finally wound up on 27 Aug. 1961.
THE BRISTOL COMPANY
In 1889, 44 Broad quay was in the occupation of Ludlow & Co., wine merchants.
From the London Gazette - 6 May 1884, page 2049: "NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership subsisting between us the undersigned, Christopher Henry Ludlow and Edmund Ludlow, carrying on business as Wine and Spirit Merchants, at No. 44, Broad-quay, in the city of Bristol, under the style or firm of Ludlow and Company, is this day dissolved by mutual consent; and all debts due to and owing by the firm will be received and paid by the said Edmund Ludlow, whos for those purposes appointed Receiver of the partnership assets, and by whom the business will henceforth be carried on.—Dated 20th March, 1884. Edmund Ludlow. C. H. Ludlow."
C. H. Ludlow moved and set up business on his own account at 42 Baldwin Street.
Imports for Ludlow & Co. appear to stop in 1890 and this is the same year imports begin for Spackman & Dent: an application to register mark in Class was 43 was made Spackman and Co., Bristol, was made in October 1892.
In 1893, as creditors, Spackman and Dent filed for the liquidation of the Montgomershire Brewery which had been formed as a limited company in 1890.
From the London Gazette - 17 October
1893, page 5847: "In the High Court of Justice.—Chancery Division. Sir.
Justice Vaughan Williams.
In the Matter of the Companies Acts, 1862 to1890, and in the Matter of the
Montgomeryshire Brewery Company Limited.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition for the winding up of the above
named Company by the High Court of Justice, was, on the19th day of
September, 1893, presented to the said Court by Johnson Woolsey Spackman,
Stanley Marseille Dent, and Arthur James Gosling, all of 44, Broad-quay,
Bristol, and 5, Idol-lane, London, trading in copartnership together as
Spackman and Dent, creditors of the said Company; and that the said
petition is directed to be heard before the Court sitting at the Royal
Courts of Justice, Strand, London, on the 25th day of October, 1893; and
any creditor or contributory of the said Company desirous to support or
oppose the making of an Order on the said petition, may appear at the time
of hearing by himself, or his Counsel, for that purpose; and a copy of the
petition will be furnished to any creditor or contributory of the said
Company requiring the same by the undersigned, on payment of the regulated
charge for the same.
WILLIAM AGATE, 38, Bow-lane, Cheap-side, London, E.C. ; Agent for PARRY
BURGES, St. Stephen-street, Bristol, Solicitor for the Petitioners.
NOTE.—Any person who intends to oppose on the hearing of the said petition
must serve on or send by post to the above named, notice in writing of his
intention so to do. The notice must state the name and address of the
person, or, if a firm, the name and address of the firm, and must be
signed by the person or firm, or his or their Solicitor (if any), and must
be served, or, if posted, must be sent by post in sufficient time to reach
the above named not later than six o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th
day of October, 1893."
From the London Gazette - 1 April
1904, page 2141: "NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership lately
subsisting between us the undersigned, Johnson Woolsey Spackman, Stanley
Marseille Dent, and Arthur James Gosling, carrying on business as Wine and
Spirit.Merchants at 5, Idol-lane, in the city of London, and 44, Broad
Quav, in the city of Bristol, under the Style or firm of SPACKMAN AND
DENT, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the 31st; day
of March, 1904. All debts due to or owing by the London business of the
said late firm will be received and paid by the said Stanley Marseille
Dent, who will continue the said London business, at 34 Great
Tower-street, in the city of London, in conjunction with William Dent and
Harry Oswald Yeatman under the style or firm of Dent, Urwick, and
Yeatman. All debts due to or owing by the Bristol business of the
said late firm will be received and paid by the said Arthur James Gosling,
who will continue the said Bristol business at the same address under the
style or firm of Spackman and Gosling. — As witness our hands this
25th day of March, 1904.
JOHNSON WOOLSEY SPACKMAN.
STANLEY MARSEILLE DENT
ARTHUR JAMES GOSLlNG."
Arthur James Gosling was born in 1862 in Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, son of James William Gosling, a farmer of 300 acres, and wife Louisa Long. By 1881 he was a Wine Broker, living in Ealing. He was still living in Ealing, and was a Commercial Traveller, when he married Agnes, daughter of Yarmouth draper William Mitchell, at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 20 July 1887. By 1891 he has moved to Westbury-upon-Trym with Agnes and her sister Elizabeth, and is a Wine & Spirit Broker in the above partnership.
Arthur James Gosling of 32 Woodstock Road, Redland, died at the Arlington Nursing Home, Clifton, Bristol on 29 April 1918.
From the London Gazette - 9 April 1926: "Pursuant to Section 185 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908. SPACKMAN & GOSLING Ltd. At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above named Company, duly convened, and held at West India House, Welsh Back, Bristol, on Monday, the 15th day of March, 1926, the following Special Resolution was duly passed; and at a subsequent Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company, also duly convened, and held at the same place on Thursday, the 1st day of April, 1926, the following Special Resolution was duly confirmed, viz.: —"That the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Steven James Lindsay Hardie and Douglas Stewart Greig, both Chartered Accountants, 11, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.1, and the survivor, be appointed Liquidators and Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up, and that each of them may act separately and exercise every power which by the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, is conferred on Liquidators or is otherwise exercisable by them." Dated this 1st day of April 1926. B. W. T. MORAN, Chairman."
The company afterwards became part of Morans (Bristol) Limited.
From the London Gazette - 9 July 1937: "In the Bridgwater County Court. No. 1 of 1937. In the Matter of KINGSTON SEYMOUR BREWERY COMPANY Limited, and in the Matter of the Companies Act, 1929. NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above named Company by the Bridgwater County Court was on the 28th day of June 1937 presented to the said Court by Bertie William Thomas Moran and Bertram Mabon Edmonds Moran trading in co-partnership under the style or firm of Spackman & Gosling at the Wine House, Welsh Back in the city and county of Bristol. And that the said petition is directed to be heard before the said Court at the County Court Offices, Queen Street, Bridgwater on the 6th day of August 1937 at the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon and any creditor or contributory of the said Company desirous to support or oppose the making of an Order on the said petition may appear at the tune of hearing in person or by his Solicitor or Counsel for that purpose and a copy of the petition will be furnished to any creditor or contributory of the said Company requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same. HENRY POMEROY and SON, 44, Baldwin Street, Bristol, Solicitors for the Petitioners..."
Bertie William Thomas Moran was born in Bristol in 1881 and was 2 months old when the 1881 census was taken. He was baptised privately on 27 Oct. 1882 at Holy Trinity, St. Philip's, son of baker William Thomas Moran and wife Sarah Bishop of 19 Wellington Street (formerly 20 Lead House Lane) who had married in the same church on 29 July 1874. Bertie's father William died in September 1885 and his mother in 1889. Bert received his education at Queen Elizabeth Hospital School as a boarder. By 1901 Bert was a distillery clerk and living with his uncle in Gladstone Street. Bert married Florence Maud Edmonds at Zion Chapel, Coronation Road, Bedminster, on 1 June 1904. By 1910 he was a manager of George White & Co., wine merchants, Stokes Croft. The couple had a son Bertram Mabon Edmonds Moran, who followed his father into the wine trade, and daughter Frances Doreen Moran, born 13 April 1910 at 34 Stokes Croft. Bertram was born 13 April 1904 at Grosvenor House, 39 Harrowdene road, Knowle, and married Vera Muriel Laura Furneaux Knight at St. Paul's, Clifton, on 27 July 1929. Bertram Mabon Edmonds Moran, of Anchor House, Eaton Crescent, Clifton, died on 21 August 1982.
From the Western Daily Press -
Tuesday 6 March 1917, page 3: "ADJOURNED LICENSING SESSION, THE RESULT OF
RAID. SUSPENDED LICENCE RENEWED. An adjourned meeting of the Bristol
Licensing Session was held yesterday at the Police Court, Mr C. W.
Cope-Proctor was in the chair, and the other Justices on the Bench were
Messrs E. Parsons, J. Swaish, A. H. Ford, A. McArthur, and F. Burris. An
application for the renewal of the licence of the Raven, Mary-le-Port
Street, which had been adjourned from the annual licensing session,
occupied the Court for a considerable time. Mr E. H. C. Wethered
(instructed by Messrs Wansbrough and Co.) applied on behalf of the
leaseholder, Anglo Brewery Co., of Shepton Mallet, and on behalf of the
holder of a temporary authority and the former tenant, Mr Moran, for a
renewal of the licence. Mr A. E. Woodgate (instructed by Mr H. G. Bailey,
St. Leonards-on-Sea), supported the application on behalf of the
freeholders.
Mr J. Green, from the Town Clerk's Office, objected to the renewal,
stating that the ground of objection was that the house had been
ill-conducted. The first case he cited was one of treating, for which the
licensee was convicted in November, 1915. Complaints were received by the
police, and a special constable was sent there on 27th November and
subsequent dates. On 15th December the licensee was summoned for supplying
intoxicating liquors during prohibited hours on the 6th and 7th December,
and fines amounting £25 were imposed. The licence had been granted by the
Bench until 5th April next, and only the Central Control Board could take
it away. The Board considered it such bad case that on 18th January they
met and made an Order which effectively closed the premises from 29th
January till 5th April. He (Mr Green) asked the Bench to refuse the
renewal on the ground of a long course of misconduct deliberately planned
and carried on on an extensive scale.
The first witness called was P.C. Hy. Davis, who, in answer to the
Chairman, said was a long bar with smoke-room at the far end. A special
constable gave evidence, also Supt. Wookey (Deputy-Chief Constable), who
said that the house was under observation practically all last year.
Mr Wethered stated that the previous licensee, Mr H. G. H. Appleton held
the licence for 17 years without objection and complaint until the case of
treating. When Supt. Wookey spoke to Mr. Wood, the local manager of the
company, he caused investigation to be made, but, like the police, he
found a difficulty in getting any reliable data. When the raid took place
in December the company satisfied themselves that the charge was true, and
they immediately gave Appleton notice. He left the house on l9th December,
and on that day the Bench was asked to grant temporary authority to Mr
Moran. The licence was suspended, not extinguished, until 5th April, and
if the Bench did not grant the application, they would be inflicting a
greater punishment than the Central Control Board contemplated.
Mr Frank Wood, local manager of the company, and B. W. T. Moran, who had
the control of the house for five weeks, and who desired the licence to be
renewed, gave evidence.
Mr Woodgate said he appeared for the freeholders, the trustees a Geo. A.
Layton, who died 1906. The Raven had been licensed house since 1801, and
came into the Layton family 1861, after which the owner lived on the
premises, and brewed his own beer. Mr G. A. Layton left, a widow and four
daughters, who were dependent on the income of the estate, £300, more than
third of which came from this house. He asked the Bench not to punish
these people refusing the application.
The Bench considered their decision in private, and on returning the
Chairman said the decision arrived at was not the unanimous decision of
the Bench, but of the majority. With regard the late tenant, Appleton,
anything that could be said was not bad enough of man who at a time like
the present deliberately set himself to infringe the regulations made for
the benefit of the citizens, and he not only knew that the offences were
being committed, but he himself was a party to them. With, regard to the
applicant, Moran, they did not look with favour on a person in the
position of a manager holding a licence, except as a purely temporary
matter, and they desired that a tenant should be brought forward at the
earliest possible moment. Under these conditions they approved the
transfer the licence to Moran to take effect on April 5. He (the Chairman)
would emphasise that the licensees must be most careful. The Central
Control Board acted themselves in this matter, and the Bench hoped, for
the sake of licensees themselves and the credit of the city of Bristol,
they would not have such a case occur again."
From the Western Daily Press - Friday 08 December 1950, page 1: "50 YEARS IN WINE TRADE— Death of Mr B. W. T. Moran. The death has occurred in Clevedon nursing home of Mr Bertie William Thomas Moran, of 12. Avon Grove, Sneyd Park, who had spent 50 years in the wine and spirit trade in Bristol. Mr Moran, who was in his 70th year, went from school—Queen Elizabeth's Hospital—into the brewing business. He was manager of a brewery for some time, and in 1919 became associated a director with the long-established firm of Spackman and Gosling, on the Welsh Back. He took over the business in 1926. and 12 years later it became known as Morans (Bristol) Ltd. Mr Moran was a Freemason, being a member of the St. Keyna Lodge and a founder of the Abbey Lodge. A keen sportsman, he played golf at one time at Filton, and bowls at Weston-super-Mare, where he lived for a time during the war. He was an honorary life member of the Victoria Bowling Club. Cricket was another of his interests and he was a member of the Gloucestershire Club. He played snooker well and was connected with a number of clubs including Bishopston Unionists’, Bristol Central Unionists', and the County Sports. Mr Moran leaves a widow, one son (Mr B Mabon Moran, managing director of Morans (Bristol) Ltd.) and a married daughter who lives at Yeovil."
On 2 December 1934 the license of the Clare Street Stores Off-License was transferred from Sidney Herbert James Moody to Bertie William Thomas Moran.
From the Western Daily Press - Saturday 15 February 1936, page 16: "To the Clerk of the Licensing Justices of the said City and County: The Clerk the Rating Authority of the said City and County; The Superintendent of Police of the "A" Division in the said City and County; And to all whom it may concern. I, BERTIE WILLIAM THOMAS MORAN, now residing at The Haven, Avon Grove, Sneyd Park, in the said City and County, Wine and Spirit Merchant, do hereby GIVE NOTICE that it is my intention to apply at the Adjourned General Annual Licensing Meeting for the said City and County, to be holden at Bridewell Street on Monday the 2nd day March next, for an order sanctioning the removal of a Justices' Licence authorising me to apply for and hold an Excise Licence to sell by retail the following intoxicating liquor, that to say, Beer. Cider, Foreign and British Wines, Liqueurs and Spirits, for consumption off the premises at St. Stephen Street, in the said City and County, and known as Northam's City Supply Stores, from such premises to a certain house and premises situate and known as numbers 41 to 44. The Welsh Back, in the said City and County, and of which premises the Corporation of Bristol are the owners. Given under my hand this 4th day of February. 1936. B W. T. Moran."
From the Western Daily Press - Saturday 16 October 1943 page 6: "MORANS (BRISTOL) LTD. Incorporating SPACKMAN & GOSLING (Proprietors of Curfew Wines) ESTABLISHED OVER 100 YEARS. WINE MERCHANTS, 42, WELSH BACK, BRISTOL. PHONE 25033 (two lines)."
From the Western Daily Press - Thursday 09 February 1950, page 4: "IN THE CITY AND COUNTY BRISTOL TO; THE CLERK TO THE RATING AUTHORITY of the said City and County; THE CLERK TO THE LICENSING JUSTICES of the said City and County; THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE of the District in the said City and County; AND ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. I, BERTIE WILLIAM THOMAS MORAN, of 12. Avon Grove, in the said City and County, do Hereby Give Notice that is my intention to apply at the Adjourned General Annual Licensing Meeting for the said City and County, to be holden at the Petty Sessional Court House, Bridewell Street, in the said City and County, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon on the SIXTH DAY MARCH, 1950, for the grant to me of a justices’ licence authorising me to apply for and hold an excise licence to sell by retail any intoxicating liquor which may sold under a publican's licence, for consumption either on or off the premises situate at 2, Princess Victoria Street, Clifton, in the said City and County, and known the sign of the "Wine Vaults" and which premises are owned by Morans (Bristol) Limited of Welsh Back in the said City and County, and which premises are now occupied by me as an Alehouse under a publican’s six dav and early closing licence. Given under my hand this 7th dav of February. 1950. B. W. T. MORAN."
The brand name "CURFEW WINES" was in use by
the company at least since 1928.
| 1 Gallon Stoneware Flagon | |
| Printed:
SPACKMAN / AND GOSLING / BRISTOL 292 on shoulder Photo courtesy: Kane Sloan. Potter: ? |
| 6 Gallon Stoneware Flagon |   |
| Impressed:
6
, Printed: SPACKMAN / & GOSLING / BRISTOL / 219 Made without handle. Presumably designed to have wicker basket for handling. Potter: Price, Bristol |
| Green Glass Wine Bottle |  |
| Embossed:
(in arch) SPACKMAN & GOSLING (in centre) CURFEW BRANDS / REGD
/ BRISTOL Glassworks: ? Full machine made in green glass. Indistinct number on base, (38???). 29 cm high, |