C H Hooper

[RUBILIMI]

Does anyone know if there was a C H Hooper family butcher in Sussex,maybe Brighton?

[cath151]

Hi
There are phone book entries for 1952 and 1960 ( and probably other dates)
Hooper  C H  Btchr   Ringmer

What dates are you looking at?

Cathy

[RUBILIMI]

I just have a photo with no date,on the front of the shop is no.28

[cath151]

Several other entries
In 1930
Hooper  C H   Btchr    Ringmer  and immediately underneath...
Hooper C H Butcher   28 High Street , Cliffe   Lewes

Cathy

[RUBILIMI]

Thank you very much

[Fairmeadow2]

Charles H. HOOPER was a son of Charles HOOPER, a Devon man who came to Ringmer by 1895, when he took over a butcher's shop near Ringmer church previously run by Robert William CHANDLER. He was a farmer as well as a butcher. In 1912 he reputedly gave the butcher's business to his son Charles H. HOOPER (also born in Devon, c.1888) as a wedding present. The shop then moved to new premises on the main Lewes Road through Ringmer at Ringmer Green. Photos available of both shops, including one of the first shop taken just before 1900 that features a butcher's delivery boy, very possibly C.H. HOOPER. The first shop was part of a house still called 'Hoopers'. The second shop was demolished in the 1960s during a rapid phase of residential development in Ringmer. More info available from Ringmer History Study Group via www.ringmer.info.

[RUBILIMI]

Thank you Fairmeadow2 for the information.