Allday's large scale map of Greater Birmingham

[adders0121]

Hey all, I stumbled across this map at a Car Boot sale at the weekend and lapped it up for a mere 50p. However, I cannot find a date anywhere on the map unfortunately, and rather interested to try and work out when it may have been published.

Here's an image of the front cover;

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It's in a pretty sorry state, so will be scanning it in over the next week or so to prevent any further damage.

All attempts to track down information on the publisher, Allday Limited have come up blank other than a reference to this quote on another website "Muncipal School of Art. (1910) Programme for the session 1910-1911, Central School. Birmingham: Allday Ltd “The Shakespeare Press”, Edmund Street."

Apologies if this is in the wrong section, but any help or information is greatly appreciated. And once the map is scanned and compiled together I'll be sure to link to it for anyone interested to see it.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mikejee]

I have looked for alldays before, but can't find it on the forum . (of course it could be another forum). Below is what i found (excuse misstyping). It seems that edmund st could be anytime 1880 -1940;
Here is the Kellys entry for 1936:
Allday Limited, colour, offset, lithographers & letterpress printers, 128 & 130 Edmund street & 56,58 & 60 Cornwall street 3. T A "Books ; " T N's Central 1170 & 1171
The first mention of the firm semms to be around 1878 when it is James Lomax Allday, described as “ from Waterlow & Sons, London” (whatever that may mean). It then was described as a law lithographer and specialised in law products and office products rather than books or magazines. They were then at New Edmund St and 37 Waterloo St. By 1880 they had moved to 39 Colmore Row and also did more general printing in addition to the law products. And, in addition to colmore Row, was also at Edmund St. By 1890 He was at Edmund st and Cornwall St. In 1900 it was Allday Ltd and by 1903 they described themselves just as printers, but by 1921 their Telegraph address was”Books”, so by then they had presumably gone away from office type printing to books and/or magazines. The firm was at cornwall St and Edmund St till 1940, but in 1943 and 1944 (bombing ?) were at 12 Vivian Road, Harborne . In 1949 they had moved to 122-137 newhall St where they were still in the last Kellys in 1973
Mike

 

[adders0121]

Interesting read, thanks for that. The map has a motor works site in Longbridge, which would take the map publication to be after 1905 unless there was some forms of car manufacturing before Austin/Rover opened?

 

[Humph3]

Hi Adders,

Maybe the price of the map may indicate an approximate date as will the postage of a 1 1/2 d for posting it. I have a map from 1960 which was priced at 2/- so yours could go back twenty or thirty years?????

Humph

 

[dav19390]

It shows that commercial companies bamboozling the public is not a new phenomenon - note that the cover says that it costs sixpence from all stationers OR sevenpence ha'penny - post free!

 

[DavidGrain]

I was using Alldays to print legal documents and things like company annual reports and accounts in mid 1970s when they were in Newhall Street

 

[brown1955]

As far as I am aware. The company was Allday Green & Welborne and were last situated opposite the original Birmingham Science Museum in Newhall Street. As far as I am aware they closed down in the late 70's early 80's.

 

[mrgrichards]

I worked at Alldays which became Allday Green and Welburn from 1969 to 1977 they were still primarily a legal printers but also did a fair amount of commercial work I used to print check books for most of the major banks but the firm started to suffer as the never really keep up with the pace of technology by investing in new machinery. Sat really I had no idea they had such a long and rich history, thanks for the post with all the information.