Corner of New Street and Cannon Street

[Dennis Williams]

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....

 

[Pedrocut]

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.

 

[pjmburns]

I though it was AR probably for Austin Reed. Part of their crest loked like the animal on the sign.


Austin Reed clothing label

 

[mikejee]

Here is an earlier view of New Street in 1896, with the corner of Cannon Street on the far right. showing the name of Edward Holroyd & Co, woollen merchant. The shop was on the corner, but with an official address 45 Cannon street.