This is number three in the short series where Andrew Simcock offers up a picture and I go looking for a story.
Andrew’s caption reads, “Eddie at Evans fishmongers takes delivery of a defibrillator at 1, Barlow Moor Road”.
A defibrillator is one of those essential devices which save lives, and according to the British Heart Foundation “is a device that gives a high energy electric shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac arrest. This high energy shock is called defibrillation, and it's an essential part in trying to save the life of someone who’s in cardiac arrest.
You don’t need to be trained to use a defibrillator – anyone can use it. There are clear instructions on how to attach the defibrillator pads. It then assesses the heart rhythm and will only instruct you to deliver a shock if it’s needed. You cannot deliver a shock accidentally, the defibrillator will only allow you to shock if it is needed”.*
And here I have to applaud the work of Catherine Brownhill and Jenny Slee in Chorlton as well as Andrew in Didsbury who have been working to get the use of defibrillators more widely understood, and placed in shops and public buildings across south Manchester. There will be others I know, and apologies for not mentioning them.
So, back to Eddie and his defibrillator at 1, Barlow Moor Road, which trades as Evans of Didsbury and will be well known to many as the purveyors of fine fish and much more.
And as you do I went looking for the history of the building. The site has been occupied since 1845, and with a bit of digging I will no doubt be able to push that date further back into the 19th century.
That research will also offer up the names of the owners and tenants and just what was being sold.
In 1901, 1 Barlow Moor Road was vacant while the adjoining property at 52 Wilmslow Road was occupied by Mr. Samuel Millington who was a fishmonger and manager working for Albert & Edward Evans Co, Fishmongers, who rented the shop from T Seymour Mead.
He was there by 1898, and remained in the property till his death in 1930.
In time I will go looking for the story of the Millington family.
For now I know that their youngest son who was born in 1898 soon after the family moved to Didsbury, followed his father, and described himself in 1939 as a “Fish, Poultry and Fruit Merchant, shopkeeper”.
Nine years earlier he was listed as a “Fish and Poultry Salesmen”, leading me to ponder whether he followed his father into the shop.
What is clear is that by 1939 he was living with his wife, Ida Mary and Mr. Charles Oswald Bullogh a retired Civil Servant, in a fine detached house in Sandacre Road in Wythenshawe.
Ernest had married Ida in 1928. She was from Salford and while I don’t as yet have a date for Ernest’s death, I know that Ida died on January 19, 2004, making her 102.
They appear to have travelled to Canada, and the USA, and most intriguingly there is Police record of Ernest’s arrival in Antwerp in Belgium, which for a moment set my imagination running, but as it was an immigration record I suspect just confirms that they travelled.
All along way from Barlow Moor Road I know.
But that is how the story turned out.
Location; Didsbury
Pictures; “Eddie at Evans fishmongers takes delivery of a defibrillator at 1, Barlow Moor Road, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simcock
Andrew is the Labour Councillor for Didsbury East on Manchester City Council please contact me at cllr.a.simcock@manchester.gov.uk
*British Heart Foundation; https://www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-help/how-to-save-a-life/defibrillators
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