Do you recall 'Spicy' Taylor?
A WORKSOP historian is appealing to residents to pass on their stories of her great uncle 'Spicy' Taylor.
Pat Malkin, of Larwood, Worksop, has been helping other people plot their family trees for the past four years and can often be found researching at Worksop Library.
But now she needs help from residents to uncover lost information about her great uncle George Henry Brown Taylor, a local sweet maker in the 1930s.
George Taylor began the sweet business that was taken over by his son George Henry Brown Taylor – known locally as Spicy Taylor.
”l’m really hoping people will come forward with their stories,” said Pat. ”I want to resurrect the Taylor family history.”
”They were so well known and I just don’t want to let it go.”
“I am sure there must be more people out there with more information. I don’t want the family history to die.”
Pat is hoping residents will remember the homemade sweets that Spicy used to make at the family home in Marecroft to sell at Worksop market.
”They used to get up early to go to the market and sell sweets and veg,” she said.
Among the favourites were humbugs, bulls eyes, shah drops, pear drops and butter drops, which he sold for six pence per pound.
The sweets were being sold in the town in the 1930s but Pat has traced some of her family as far back as 1787.
”I’d love to know what happened to all the equipment they use to make the sweets, and all the recipes,” said Pat. ”If anyone has any information or memories I’d love to know.”
The Brown Taylors were an historic Worksop family, and one of them was even Lord Mayor of Worksop.
George Henry Brown Taylor also used to own property on Newcastle Avenue.
In 1958 Norah Brailsford, a member of the family, told the Guardian how she used to help make the sweets.
”We made them all ourselves in the boiling shops in Marecroft,” she said.
“The recipe was simple sugar mostly and various colourings and flavourings. I have yet to find sweets any tastier or more wholesome.”
”I was at the humbug and butterscotch end of the stall. I served as many as 14 full size biscuit tins of sweets every market day.”
Anyone with any information about Spicy Taylor can contact the newsdesk on 01909 543006 or write to: Worksop Guardian, 21-27 Ryton Street, Worksop, S80 2AY.
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