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This shop belonged to my grandfather William Cork and I remember visiting it as a child in the 1950's. My grandfather had a barber's above the shop which I believe had been in the family for many years. I think the shop was run by Stanley Cork my father's cousin in recent years. I don't know when Cork's shop originally opened or closed down. If anyone knows I would be very interested to know.
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Gill Cork - 3 Oct 04
Now you mention it, I can see the barbers' pole, to the left of the door. Thanks!
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Admin - 4 Oct 04
The 1841 census for Bingley in Yorkshire has the following family:
Christopher CORK age 55 hairdresser born Yks.
Sarah CORK aged 50 born Yks
Mary CORK aged 30 born Yks
Christopher CORK aged 5 born Yks.
There were other members of the CORK family who were barbers. The branch listed above are related to me. The younger Christopher was my gggreat grandfather. This branch of the family moved and settled in Burnley.
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Dyanna Swindlehurst - 27 Nov 04
I've already added a comment on this photograph. Can you tell me exactly where this shop was? The caption just says 'Hign Street'. Where? The CORKS lived variously in Otley and Bingley before moving to Burnley. If you zoom in to the sign above the name CORK you can make out the words 'shampooing saloons'. Saloons? Salons I think!
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Dy Swindlehurst - 27 Nov 04
According to the elders of Skipton, I have it on good authority that this shop has now been replaced by a photographic processing establishment; opposite the Edinburgh Wool Shop, past the Woolly Sheep pub. See cell 4 of http://www.skiptonweb.co.uk/tourist/walks/11_skip_shopping/index.htm
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Admin - 1 Dec 04
I remember Cork's shop very well - my sister and I bought sweets there from the early to late 1940's. The two steps to the left of the shop lead into Cook's Yard, and the shop had a back door leading into the Yard.
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Margaret Tennant (nee Gates) - 22 Feb 05
The Cork family was/is a very old Skipton family and had been hairdressers for several generations. I have traced it back to the mid-sixteenth century in Skipton. Christopher was a very common name in the family also Arthur and Stanley. Was this shop shown in the photograph the one which eventually was given a modern green and black facia? I am descended from Herbert Henry Cork & Mary Whitton.
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Dorothy McKnight nee Cork - 24 Dec 05
In the 1950s the tobacconist shop, at the front was run by Charlie Cork, father of Stanley who took over later. The barber's shop was at the rear downstairs and run by my father, Norman Dexter after he returned from WWII. The "rear" door was actually in the alley at the side of the shop. There was a ladies hairdresser upstairs at some time too. In the late 60s the barber's shop there closed and my father took over one in Newmarket St.
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Bryan Dexter - 5 May 06
My grand mother was Frances ( Fanny ) Cork, she married Charles Moorhouse who sadly died aged 42.Charles was the son of William Moorhouse who founded the jam company of that name. Charles did not work for the family business but became manager of the Fattorini jewellers shop in Southport. After he died his widow (Fanny) and three children moved to Leeds.
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Peter Moorhouse - 21 Feb 07
Christopher and Sarah Cork in the 1941 Census were my Great, Great, Great Grandparents. Their son, George had a daughter, Fanny, who married my Great Grandad Alfred Nunns and lived in Bingley. Their daughter Elsie May married my grandfather Hubert Smith who lived in Colne, Lancashire. Elsie May died in her 30's but Hubert moved to Colne in Lancashire with his children.
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Brian Smith - 8 Jun 07
I have recently been researching my family history, I have Sarah Ann Cork as my Gt Gt Grandmother marying William Bairstow my Gt GT Grandfather in 1861 in Bingley, on the marriage certificate her Father is George Cork born 1822 in Otley who states his profesison as a Barber. I would be interested to know if they have any connection to the shop in the Photo
Contact d.bairstow2@ntlworld .com
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Douglas Bairstow - 17 Jul 07
Hi - found this photo through the search engine...lovely to see...have just discovered family links to the Cork family through Walter Cork [Bingley 1877 - WW1 1918] who married a Sarah Wood in Barnoldswick 1897. I believe his father David Cork was also a hairdresser in later years [I think on the 1901 census]. Wondering if anyone might be related to this side of the Cork family as I believe I am in possession of family photos of Walter...previously unnamed. His WW1 photo [along with other related Cork family] sits on the Craven in the Great War site. I can be contacted at nowell.m.a.j@gmail.com
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Mimi - 12 Oct 08
Archibald Ernest Cork (my grandfather)&his father Arthur &siblings lived originally on Belmont Bridge & later Archie owned the barbers shop on Otley St until the late 1970s.His wife was Mary who with her brother James Simpson owned a greengrocers & fish & chip shop on Newmarket St & a second greengrocers in the High Street.
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Josephine R. Crisp - 29 Nov 08
My connection to the Cork family is less respectable than those above! Fanny born in Bingley about 1832, daughter of hairdresser Charles born about 1811 was the mistress of my 3rd Great Grandfather William Abbott of Yeadon. They seem to have lived together for about 15 years until the death of William's wife finally allowed them to marry in 1872. Fanny died in 1882 and William in 1883. While Fanny and William were carrying on in Bingley his wife Hannah Scott was living in Yeadon with her widowed brother in law James Waugh and apparantly having his children. Sorting out their census records gave me several new gray hairs!
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Maggie Cassidy - 10 Feb 09
My grandfather, William Truman Cork, and his brother, Charles, owned this hairdressing business, which is situated on Sheep Street, Skipton. It is no longer a hairdressers and the premises are leased out by my father's cousin, Stanley Cork, son of Charles. I believe the family may have lived above the shop at some time. It has very interesting cellars, ideal for a darkroom! When I first visited the premises, in about 1957, my grandparents, William and Nora, had a house in Raikeswood Drive, Skipton. My father, Tom Cork, elder son of William, joined the Royal Navy at fifteen, but was certainly taught the hairdressing trade, and was able to put this to good use on board ship! We persuaded Dad to start writing his memoirs several years ago, and although he died in 2005, his memoirs, up to 1949, have been made into a beautifully bound book which the family will cherish. Dad was a great raconteur!
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Ann Clarke - 26 May 09
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