Former Cinema Owner Dies (picture)

May 1965

South Yorkshire Times 15th May 1965

Former Cinema Owner Dies

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Mr. Harry Appleyard, former owner of the Globe cinema, Conisbrough, and a founder of the local coal haulage and transport business of Appleyard and Lumb, died at his Conisbrough home on Saturday.

Mr. Appleyard, who was 71, had been ill only a short time, and only this year retired from business life. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. C. Lawrence, and one grandchild, 12-years-old Constance Lawrence.

Mr. Appleyard, a member of a well known and long-standing Conisbrough family, started his working life in the grocery business of his uncle, Mr. George Appleyard, in Church St., Conisbrough, on the site of the present Doncaster Co-operative Society store.

In December 1914 he joined the Royal Artillery and served until 1919, seeing active service in France.

HAULAGE FIRM
On his return after the war he founded a coal haulage firm, and from 1927 was partnered by Mr. Edward Lumb, who died last year. The business was eventually nationalised, and then Mr. Appleyard took over the Globe Cinema and started two shops on the premises. These he managed until February of this year.

Mr. Appleyard, a Transport Officer with the Home Guard during the last war, was a life member of the Royal Artillery Association and of the British Legion. He served as a Special Constable and was also a Freemason – a member of Doncaster Lodge and Magdalen Chapter.

Mr. Appleyard’s wife, Mrs. Kate Appleyard, died in 1954. The couple were married at Conisbrough Methodist Church in 1920.