A page from the agreement of sale of Mr. Hockett'e window cleaning business to John Edward Archbold, showing the monthly repayment amounts.
Date (of image) : 1947
Donor : Mr. Alan Archbold
Location
A selection of photographs and documents kindly shared with this project by Mr. Alan Archbold.
More detail »At the end of the war in 1945, Dad (Mr. John Edward Archbold) bought a window cleaning business for the princely sum of £250 from Mr. Horace Hockett, who at the time of the sale was the bandmaster at West Hartlepool Salvation Army Temple. Mr. Archbold ran the business himself for 7 years, working up a good clientele including many shops and businesses in Hartlepool Town itself. However, in 1952 he had a bad fall off his ladder so he decided to sell the business on and return back to Gray's shipyard.
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