On the corner of Upper Cox St with Balsall Heath Road (180 Balsall Heath Road) was the Wearwell Overalls Co. This can be seen on the map in the previous post. The company was formed in 1939 at 20 Longbridge Road to manufacture, though they did also make army uniforms at one time. They added this site, which seems to have been more a shop and offices, in the early 1950s and remained until the late 1960s, when they moved the business to Tamworth. Immediately before WW2 the site had been occupied for a short time by a furniture dealer, Emanuel Miller. However originally , in around 1870 till about 1937 it was a bakers, originally run by Thomas Marshall, and for the last 20 years by the Proffitt & Westwood chain.
To the left of Wearwells , no.182 seems always o have been an off-licence, the last tenant being J.J. Clooney.
Next door, G.H.Monk & Co had a number of retail shops in Birmingham, but only had this wholesale site at nos.184, 186 since the early 1950s. Previously no 186, presumably including the factory behind shown on the map, had always been a butchers. Before WW2 no 184, other than a short period as a tailors, had always been a grocers with different occupants..
No 188 always to have been a grocers of some sort, while no 190, on the far left of the second photo had been a toy retailer, a childrens clothes shop amongst other things.