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Corner of New Street and Cannon Street

Dennis Williams

Dennis Williams

Gone but not forgotten
Just a quick query....for years I've noticed this funny sign on the impressive corner building at the bottom of Cannon Street.....what looks like the original sign's been replaced now and is simply a blank area.....but I just wondered if this original, almost Masonic looking jobby had any significance to the Building itself, or just a complex shop sign....? Anyone got any info? Cheerrs folks....


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The sign looks like AR, for Austin Reed? Austin Reed were at 41 New Street from about 1914.

Before that time it was a Holroyd’s Woolen Warehouse from around 1856.
 
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