This photograph shows young trout being put into the river at Mint Bridge (to go in the River Kent which flows through Kendal) by keen fishermen around 1937-39.
The tall man wearing a trilby hat is Cyril Hogarth, the jeweller on Branthwaite Brow.
Next to him (hands in pockets) is Tal Warriner, a banker in Martin’s Bank (now Barclays).
Cyril Hogarth died in the Kendal County Hospital (now Summer Hill Nursing Home) of a kidney complaint in 1942, aged 40.
Alan, his son, the now retired jeweller, remembers his father was also keen on rabbiting with ferrets, which he and Gordon Todd (the saddler) kept in hutches and cages in the cellar of Thomas Atkinson’s Sports Shop on Stricklandgate in about 1936-38.
Cyril Hogarth bought J. Moore’s jewellery business on Branthwaite Brow in 1923, having trained in watch making and jewellery in Preston. The jewellers today is now in the third and fourth generation of Hogarth Jewellers in the same unique cast iron walled property, but now ten times the size it was in 1923.
Rita J. Hogarth
Kendal
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