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Hi, I believe the Miles Tea & Coffee business moved to Victoria Road, Sutton Coldfield when the original premises was bombed in 1940. Does anyone know where the original business was please?
 
I presume this was Henry Miles & Co, tea merchants, 1 & 2 Central Buildings Scotland Passage, High St. It is marked approximately in blue on the c1937 map below, , though not sure exactly how far back from the High St it went

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Mike

Did they have other premises elsewhere, as this photo of part of their premises on Scotland Passage seem to indicate that they did I can't quite make out what it says? Also it looks from this photo that they must have been on both sides of the passage.
 

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Phil
Its 22 (or possibly another number before the 22) Mincing lane, London. They seem to have had several depots, as the first Woolworths in the UK is stated to have been in a building in Liverpool previously occupied by them. I was going on them being only on the north side of the passage by Kellys in 1940, but they could well have also occupied some on the south side
 
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Thanks Mike,

It seems possible that they were on both sides of the passage as there is even a connecting bridge.
 
I do not live in the area so do not know, so to ask a possibly silly question was the depot in Scotland Passage, High St destroyed during the war?
 
I wonder if the Henry Miles in Liverpool was a different person. Just read on the Woolworths museum site their first shop in the UK was in the former Henry Miles milleners there.
 
Yes I think it must have been a different firm. the link I got just gav ethe name of the firm, and not what it did, and I made an unwarranted assumption
 
Phil said:
Mike

Did they have other premises elsewhere, as this photo of part of their premises on Scotland Passage seem to indicate that they did I can't quite make out what it says? Also it looks from this photo that they must have been on both sides of the passage.
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Just wondered if you know the date of the photograph you have posted here and if we would be able to use in on our History page, I work for Miles Tea & Coffee (now based in Somerset) in the Marketing department, cheers.
 
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