CURTIS & HANNE LTD (Fishmongers and Poulterers) also
CURTIS & COMPANY (Fishmonger, Poulterer and Game Delaer) and
GEORGE HANNE (Fishmonger, Poulterer and Game Dealer)
There was a Company by the name of Curtis & Hanne Ltd which appears to follow on from the trading in Yeovil of Curtis and Hann (no 'e') that was started in October 1867 when George Frederick Miles Hann(e) (1845-1928) was joined in his business of fishmonger and poulterer etc by his aunt, Mrs Curtis (a former fishmonger in her own right). Mrs Curtis was presumably Mary Curtis (nee Miles and probably sister to George's mother) who with her husband Felix had also run a fishmonger and poulterer business in Middle Street. George was made bankrupt shortly afterwards and may have contined to use the name when back in business by 1874 and also after moving to Brixton following his re-marriage in the late 1870s, with his son, Ernest John, as the company secretary.
George's eldest son, George Thomas William Hanne, seems to have set up on his own as by 1891 he had left the Brixton area for Battersea and later moved to Wimbledon where he traded as both Curtis & Co and George Hanne (so possibly had also been involved with the company at some stage). George's second son, William Miles Hanne also traded as a fishmonger from 1890 to 1901, firstly at 5 Torrens Road, Brixton then at 15 Bonham Road, Brixton
So far I have discovered that according to a report in the 15 August 1896 issue of the Dundee Courier and very detailed advertisement in the Belfast News-letter of the same date and Pall Mall Gazette of 17 August (amongst others), shares were being listed for a company called Jeffs, Williams and Curtis Lrd with capital of £200,000 which was intended to amalgamate the 41 premises and fish and poultry business of Ben Williams (wholesale fish curer and salesman) of Billingsgate and Peckham, James Brusey of Bedford Street, Strand, R Mills of Liverpool Street etc and Curtis & Hanne of Brixton etc. amongst others.
It would also include the Grimsby fish-curing business of Charles Jeffs, director of the East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd of Grimsby, and employ buyers at Lowestoft, Boston, Hull, Grimsby, Aberdeen and Shields [North/South/both?] to provide a central London depot. Amongst the officials, under Managers and Buyers, the advertisement showed GF Hanne [presumably GFM] of Curtis & Hanne, of Brixton etc and GFM Hanne of Curtis & Co of Clapham Junction etc.
Presumably this did not happen as in the 17 Jun 1898 edition of the London Gazette notice was formally given that Jeffs, WIlliams and Curtis Ltd would be struck off the Joint Stock Companies Register. Confirmation appeared in the 4 October edition that the company had been struck off and dissolved.
Curtis & Hanne therefore still traded and expanded over the years and had a number of different known branches as follows:
1890-1901:
14 Denmark Hill, Denmark Hill (with rates payable by Curtis & Hanne from 1890 to 1896 - in property owned by G Banfield. In 1897 the rates were payable by George F Hanne who the following year bought the property from Mr Banfield. Between 1901 and 1908 the proerty appears to be owned by Hanne and occupied by Banfield before reverting solely to Hanne in 1909. He was laible for the rates until at least 1914)
1905:
14 Denmark Hill, Denmark Hill (trading as George F Hanne)
also 58 Church Street, Camberwell (trading as George Hanne)
1906:
14 Denmark Hill, Denmark Hill
399 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill
also 58 Church Street, Camberwell (trading as George Hanne)
1907-1910:
14 Denmark Hill, Denmark Hill
399 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill
355 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill
286 Brixton Road, Stockwell
45 Electric Avenue (fish only), Brixton
also 58 Church Street, Camberwell (trading as George Hanne)
George snr's brother, Charles Albert Hann (who was also a fishmonger in Bristol), had by 1911 relocated to 286 Brixton Road, Stockwell adopted the Hanne spelling and become involved with the company.
In 1910 a notice was published in the London Gazette
"CURTIS AND HANNE Limited. AT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above named Company, duly convened, and held at 399, Norwood-road, West Norwood, in the county of London, on the 1st day of June, 1910, the following Special Resolution was duly passed; and at a subsequent Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the said Company, also duly convened, and held at the same place, on the 16th day of Jane, 1910, the following Special Resolutions was duly confirmed:—It was proposed that the Company known as Curtis and Hanne Limited, be voluntarily wound up under the provisions of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, and that Mr. Ernest Madge* be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator in the winding up of the said Company, under the provisions of the said Act. ERNEST J. HANNE, Secretary"
However the company seems to have continued as there were still branches trading after this, though between 1911 and 1913 Ernest was involved with the de la Hayes (tailors?) in the running of the Hanne and de la Haye Private Hotel at 5 Effra Road, Brixton and from another notice in the London Gazette was also involved in Hanne & Hill.
"NOTICE is hereby given, that the partnership heretoforesubsisting between us, the undersigned, Miles James Hill-Hartland and Ernest John Hanne, carrying on business of Poulterers and Fishmongers, and Dealers in Fruit and Vegetables, at 151, Beulah-hill, Norwood. in the county of Surrey, under the style or firm of HANNE AND HILL, has been dissolved by mutal consent as and from the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. All debts due and owing by the said late form will be received and paid by the said Ernest John Hanne (who will continue to carry on the business under the style or firm of Hanne & Hill) - Dated the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. MILES J HILL-HARTLAND, ERNEST J HANNE"
In 1926 Curtis & Hanne appears to have been the trading name for George Hanne (father or son?) and Ernest Hanne and in 1930 for Ernest (George senior having died), branches having continued to trade at:
1911-1921
14 Denmark Hill, Denmark Hill
355 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill
45 Electric Avenue, Brixton
14 The Broadway, West Norwood
1925-1928:
355 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill
97 Brixton Hill, Brixton [trading as Curtis & Hanne (George Hanne)]
1930-1941:
375 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill
In 1940 Curtis & Hanne was shown in directories as being a trading name for Richard Mills & Co.
Between 1933-1951 Ernest Hanne's son John Derrick Huntingdon Hanne traded as a pharmacist at 330 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill
elsewhere -
CURTIS AND COMPANY traded at 25 Broadway, Wimbledon and
GEORGE HANNE traded at 42 King's Road and 9 Hill Road, Wimbledon and at 35 Malden Road, New Malden
Both Curtis and Company and George Hanne ceased in 1913 when a notice was published in the London Gazette "In the Matter of a Deed of Assignment for the benefit of Creditors, executed on the 30th day of August, 1912, by GEORGE HANNE (G. T. W. Hanne), trading as Curtis and Co., at 25, The Broadway, Wimbledon; as George Hanne, at 9, Hill-road, Wimbledon; and 35, Malden-road, New Malden, Surrey; and also of 42, King's-road. Wimbledon, Fishmonger, Poulterer, and Game Dealer.
CREDITORS' of the above named George T. W. Hanne who have not already sent in their claims are required, on or before the 26th day of March, 1913, to send in their names and addresses, with particulars of their debts or claims, to me, the undersigned, Henry Helwig, 38, Marsham-street, Westminster, S.W., Certified Accountant, the Trustee under the said deed, or, in default thereof, they will be excluded from the dividend about to be declared:—Dated this 8th day of March, 1913. HENRY HELWIG, Trustee"
* George Frederick Miles Hanne's second wife was a Rosa Madge and his daughter, Henrietta Bernice, married a cousin, Herbert Curtis Lee Hanne, presumbaly named after the Curtis connection. I've not traced where the Lee came from.
A photo of Curtis & Hanne Ltd's Electric Avenue shop (on the corner of Electric Avenue and Atlantic Road) can be found at www,brixtonbuzz.com/2014/03/edwardian-flower-stalls-brixton/