Notes from Peter Moore. Information from his aunts, which is completely unverified.

The first Brickland store was located in Pepper Street (just past St Michael church at the top of Bridge Street) Originally the store was a "wet fish" store which was somewhat of a speciality store serving the gentry of the area when it opened in the mid 1800's, then they added pork and became the first butchers in Chester to sell pork and became popular with the rest of the city. This store remained in business until it was sold to Laura Ashley Co a few years ago.

After the Second World War Billy Brickland (Grandson of the owner of the Pepper Street store) and his brother in law Charles Cornish opened another store in Queens Street where they sold groceries in addition to the meat and fish. Several years ago the property where the Queens Street store stood was condemned by the city to make way for the British Home Store which was then built on the property after the street was widened.

Billy Brickland, who opened the Queens Street store, was a very nice, good natured man with red hair who was somewhat of the "rebel" in his family.

Now just to confuse further the Mr Brickland who ran the store on Pepper Street in the late 1920s and 1930s when my aunts were young, was also known as "Billy" and again they seem to remember that may not have been his actual name either.

Extract from Deeside August 1966 article by Oscar Davies:

The winter of 1895-96 was very severe, and the Dee was frozen for many weeks. During this time, Mr. Joseph Brickland, the fishmonger, who was a pioneer in all forms of transport, was to be seen every morning with his pony and trap, taking his sons, Bill and Joe, for a drive to Eccleston and back. I think he was the first Cestrian to have a motor cycle, and he also drove the first motor car I ever saw in the city. He is remembered as a dapper little man, and described as "sharp as a needle" or "bright as a new sixpence." He lived a few doors away from us.