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J & CH Evans & Co. Ltd. (Maltsters) Aston & Birchfield

nice photo viv and a very large building....trying to find it marked on old maps but no luck as yet

lyn
 
Not one I’ve heard of Lyn. This is all it gives on the reverse of the pc. Viv.
 

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Here it is on the c1950 map in red. They seem to have been on this site since 1899, and were there till the early 1950s

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mikejee said:
Here it is on the c1950 map in red. They seem to have been on this site since 1899, and were there till the early 1950s

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The fascination, as far as I am concerned, is the sheer amount of industrial premises that can be seen in these older maps. Some substantial, some medium sized and others fairly small. All of which made up the celebrated 1000 trades of the city.
 
no wonder i could not find it in avenue road mike...because its not....yet according to the postcard the address given is avenue road...guess its close enough and it is the closest road to the factory which needed an address..
 
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This is probably one for Mikejee, unless you know different.

Below is a map showing Bartons Bank and a part of Victoria Road - all buildings now demolished. My grandmother's house is shown in red, and behind that with an apparent entrance in Victoria Road is what is shown on several larger scale maps as a malthouse and is shown in green on the map.

Can Mike or anyone please tell me who owned the malthouse, and/or the approximate number of the entrance in Victoria Road? Many thanks in advance if anyone can shed any light on this.

Maurice :cool:
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The company (in 1950) was J. & C.H. Evans & Co, maltsters, at 51 Whitehead St. you can see from the c1050 map that the entrance was actually in Whitehead St. (The map is one I previously saved for another purpose and therefore shows another building, as oldmaps site seems to be temporarily unavailable to me)
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In the 60s I lived at 80 Victoria Road which was right opposite the metal shearing works. It was yet to be built in 1950 so doesn't show on Mike's map. This photo shows a delivery truck in the entrance to the Malt works in Whitehead Road..
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Newspaper entries for this Company are confined to Situations Vacant advertisements and a Liquidation Notice in 1970, always giving the Avenue Road address as follows.

Maurice :cool:
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Just one aside, in November 1904 an elderly lady died in an accident in Colmore Row involving a heavy waggon and two
horses owned by Evans Maltsters.
 
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