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 In the 1950s, Mr Teal ran a shop in
West End (in our picture right). It is difficult to imagine that this was once a major shop in the village and with a double-windowed shop front, but fortunately we have a photograph of the shop in the early
twentieth century when it was probably at its most successful (see below).
Elaine Harrison remembers it like this:
Then there was Mr Teal the shoemaker who had his shoe repair
shop along West End. He sold shoes as well because I remember my Grandmother buying some soft black lace-ups from him just before she died in the early sixties.
 Christine Hammond says:
I don't remember a lot about Teales shop apart from the fact that it was a
cobbler’s. Arthur Teale was the projectionist at the Essoldo (opposite John Leggott) for years. When the old man died he displayed his water colours in the shop window but I am sorry I do not know anyone who has
one of them.
When you walked in the centrally positioned door, the shoes and shoe
repairing equipment was on the right-hand side. There were often shoes there that were in the process of being repaired, and the smell of leather, rubber, glue, and the materials used for
repairing shoes was lovely. He had a large stitching machine (something similar to an old sewing machine but more heavy-duty.
On the left hand side were the shelves for sweets, and at the bottom of those shelves were stored bottles of ‘pop’.
The flavours included lemonade and orangeade of course, but also cider (the soft-drink version!), ‘ice-cream soda’, cherryade,  and Vimto - though you couldn’t be sure that the ‘exotic’ ice-cream soda would be in every time you asked for it!
Mr Teal was a very tall, thin, bespectacled man.
His talented artist-son certainly did a water colour of Manor House (from the rear gardens) when
the Willis family lived there, and other remembered paintings included one of West End from the shop, including “Humber View” a former private school, and at that time home of Dick
Newbourne. He also painted the dramatic view of Scunthorpe, with the sky reflecting the fires of the steelworks.
By 1912, the shop was under the ownership of Andrews. According to the advert in the “Guide to Winteringham” (a
book that was co-written by the proprietor of this shop), fresh eggs from their own hens, honey from their own hives,
fruit from their own orchard and home-baked bread was on sale here. Another string, of many, to the business’s bow
was the sale of postcards - many reckoned to be exclusive ones of the area. The advert below gives a taste of what sounds like a considerable village enterprise!
 Visit...
ANDREW’S
THE VILLAGE STORES
WINTERINGHAM
The Proprietor directs YOUR ATTENTION to the fact
that he makes special efforts to meet the requirements
of Visitors, and others.
Keeping his own fowls & bees, the New-laid Eggs and delicious
Honey Sold may be fully relied upon as of BEST QUALITY
SWEETS, BISCUITS, HOME MADE BREAD, and
“MONSTER” TEMPERANCE DRINKS
APPLES, PEARS and PLUMS from own Orchard
The leading Shop for
TOBACCOS, PIPES, CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
OF ALL KINDS
Local Views and Pictorial Post Card Depot, (many exclusive
Photographs, including Portrait of Winteringham’s veteran
MAYOR E CORDEAUX Esq
Joint Author of the Guide Book, and agent for sale of same.
Articles suitable for Presentation to Adults or Children. Toys etc.
Agent for the sale of The “Sheffield Independent” Leading ˝d daily
Dealer in SHEFFIELD CUTLERY, RAZORS TOOLS etc
ENQUIRIES DISCREETLY MADE FOR RESPONSIBLE PERSONS
Open to entertain proposals for Letting or Leasing part of premises
for use as Bank Offices etc
Advert scanned by Harry Wells 2005.
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Others connected with this shop
The 1901 census doesn’t tell us which building is which, but we are fairly confident that
Emily Hardy
(35) was the ‘tobacconist and confectoiner who was here, together with her 3 year old daughter - also called Emily. The widow of Rector Charles Knowles, Lavinia, (63) was a boarder, and Rose Campbell was a servant in the household.
But who had the shop in the 19th century? We suggest that the most likely
person was another Winteringham entrepreneur and man of many talents - William Reynolds. He was one of the two enumerator’s for the 1851 census, and carried out his task in a most orderly manner with
the houses being listed as they were in the streets ... with one exception ... his own! He courteously, but for us rather frustratingly, placed his own house and household at the end of his list, moving back
to West End from Market Hill.
His census return gives himself (46) born in Winteringham being a carpenter employing two men. Also listed in the house are his wife Ann (43), his children John (9), Isabel (7), Joseph (5) all scholars, and baby William (6 months), with 18 year old William Duncan born in Hull also being in the home, and employed as a carpenter’s apprentice. However, William’s Winteringham-born mother
Isabel Reynolds
(73) is also an inhabitant and is listed as a shopkeeper. By the time of the next census in 1861, there is no mention of the elderly Isabel, who has presumably died, but now her namesake and grand-daughter
Isabel Reymolds (17) is listed as the shopkeeper. In between those two dates, the White’s Directory of 1856 gives William Reynolds
himself as the shopkeeper, as well as carpenter and Parish Clerk! Though the 1861 Post Office Directory doesn’t mention any Reynolds being a shopkeeper, William is there listed as also a builder! However Kelly’s Directory of 1868 gives him as the carpenter and grocer, and again in 1885, and 1889, though it appears that he died on 2nd June 1884 aged 79 (click here for his memorial inscription).
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