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Cash's Frozen Assets

Entirely possible, but surely via doors, not by demolishing the entire dividing wall on the first floor between 42 and 42A, as that has the mosaic on the 42 side of the wall. So two rooms, not one bigger one, which was the point I was trying to make earlier.

I am not sure that the dividing wall between 42 and 42A could have been taken down to make the space bigger for a group. After all the long mosaic is still there in 42. The size of the upstairs parts of 42 and 42A are very similar.

I was wrong about there being no emergency exit or goods entrance at the back of 42A. This is from 2024.

Note that 42A has no exit onto this corridor. It probably had its own escape out onto Needless Alley.

Hallmark Jewellery

Here is the complete document, which does not rule out the removal of 42A's mosaics on their first floor. Shocking.

And this shows a surprising ground floor layout.

The attached document includes a better version of the 1952 Goad map, and reveals that the interior spaces were substantially altered c. 2000.

This is another file from the same planning application, which shows it does not apply to the units with entrances on New Street but runs directly across from Cannon Street to Needless Alley. Maybe the back end of the New Street shops had been cut off to accommodate this shop?

I would have thought the apartments are on floors two upwards, above the retail floors.

We need to bear in mind that the Kardomah mosaic room opened in 1906. I find it difficult to accept that the shoe shops at 42 were prepared to go without an upstairs department and/or storage for all that time. Also there were mosaics in 41, so it can't be all about the Kardomah.

This is excellent. It suggests the Kardomah may have had 42 as well at the time.

The picture also shows that retail only had the ground floor and that the first floor for half the block is occupied by the Wesleyan General Insurance Company, whose name is in the corner stonework as well.

So the Kardomah unit Number 42A, had mosaics in 1978 on the first floor, and ex-42 has mosaics within Charles Tyrwhitt on the first floor. A 2019 report by Heritage Collective said that mosaics were discovered recently on the first floor of 41. What this tells us is that every unit had mosaics...

Great. You may be interested in the pages on the history of the Coventry Road on the Acocks Green History Society website, of which this is one: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/coventry-road-to-forest-road-4/

Are these the ones?

Is this not the ground floor? Also there are more shapes next to each other than upstairs in Charles Tyrwhitt, where the mosaics are opposite the stairs not under them.

The 2017 planning application is for 41 New Street, Charles Tyrwhitt, not the ex-Kardomah corner unit to the left as you look at the building. See the attached.

If those are the mosaics, they do not look the same to me.