New Bond Street father-in-law's shoe repairers 1960s

[Sue Carter/Powis]

My father-in-law Lew Powis (# 'L for Leather') had this business on the corner of New Bond Street post WW2 which has now been swallowed up by a traffic island and a Dunelm store. But the cobbles are still visible if you walk a little way up off the main road. He also had a small outlet at Bordesley train station selling shoe laces, polish and sundry items.

 

[Sue Carter/Powis]

A shoe repairer, a hairdresser, a spot/arc welder and supplierof equipment as well as a butcher trading cheek-by-jowl.

 

[Astoness]

That would actually be Dunelm but I couldn't find a way to edit it! A shoe repairer, a hairdresser, a spot/arc welder and supplierof equipment as well as a butcher trading cheek-by-jowl.

hi sue just press the edit icon bottom left of the post you made

lyn

 

[RobT]

So that would be 60 Coventry Road

 

[Sue Carter/Powis]

Lew gave up shoe repairing in the very early 60s. There was a Mitchells and Butlers pub 'The Dolphin' at the corner of New Bond Street and the Cov Rd. Other side of the road maybe?

 

[Sue Carter/Powis]

So that would be 60 Coventry Road

So that would be 60 Coventry Road

No idea of the number. My husband remembers walking from the bus stop over the New Bond St cobbles to meet his dad from work.

 

[mikejee]

It was no 60. The dolphin was on the same side of Coventry road, on the other corner of New Bond St. Powis is not there in the 1950 Kellys (it is Smith, boot repairers), but is there in 1955 edition till the 1965 edition, but not in 1966 edition

 

[Pedrocut]

Lew gave up shoe repairing in the very early 60s. There was a Mitchells and Butlers pub 'The Dolphin' at the corner of New Bond Street and the Cov Rd. Other side of the road maybe?
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I think the picture below of the Dolphin has appeared somewhere on the Forum.