Hi Lyn,
Well, well! You found a good one. The shop in the picture is on the corner of an "opening" (as we used to call them). An opening was a gap between houses leading to a terraced row of houses, as this was. The lady who used to own it when I was there was Mrs Ford (Florrie Ford as she was known). The Sketchley's (not to be confused with the greengrocers further down the street) used to live in the boarded-up house next door They had a son, Raymond, who was around the same age as me but was a lot thinner and smaller. The van parked off the road is parked alongside an electric sub-station. Just past the substation is a bombed site (peck). The 3 story houses at the back are typical of the houses at that end of Bracebridge Street although the houses in the picture are actually in Allesley Street. Our entry to 2/26 was about 4 houses up from the one next to the shop. The photo is 1967 and our family left there in 1965. I have attached a photo taken from the Aston Road end of the street and just to the left of the traffic signal in the distance is another advertising hoarding on the other side of the opening.
Lyn, I can see from the bottom of the picture that it is out of a book or a newspaper. Would you happen to have either as I would like to see what is written below the picture. Thanks very much for posting this and please keep looking as there is a Vine public house on the other side of the road!! Maybe it will also "strike a chord" with someone else on the forum?
PS. I brightened your original photo.
PPS. I may be confused about the Sketchley's?
PPPS. All this on a day that the Wolves beat the Baggies!!!