Bull Ring 1930s - 1950s

[MWS]

They seem to have sold a wide variety.

One advert mentions budgies, canaries, tortoise, snakes, lizards, rabbits, golden hamsters, tame mice, guinea pigs, goldfish etc, another adds chameleons and tree frogs and a third appears to include bush babies.

 

[izzy eckerslike]

I remember it vividly, mum would always take us up the stone steps with the bronze handrail and past 'the bomb' so we could see the pet shop. It also had big fish tanks as well as kittens and puppies etc. The central handrail down the steps had studs on it to stop kids sliding down it!

 

[Richard Dye]

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He doesn't appear to be. His father was from Droitwich, whilst the founder of Pimms was from Oxfordshire.

This old thread may be of interest to you...

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Thread 'Pimms - Icknield Port Road'

Dec 24, 2014

Here's a long thread starter....but I hope that something might trigger a memory or two, or three.......!!!

My dad, Bill Burton, worked at Pimms the Pets and Gardens Suppliers based in Icknield Port Road for all his working life, apart from his national service in the RAF. My mum, Phoebe, worked there too for about 15 years, as did I, part-time and during some of the school holidays. We lived at 166 IPR opposite the Pimms HQ. They also had big storage unit and vehicle parking and maintenance yard at the back of our house, accessed by a narrow drive off Summerfield Road (always referred to...

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My Goodness, that is and old piece good hunting!

 

[JLB]

I'm hoping someone can help date the photo in this picture postcard of the Bull Ring. I found it among a collection of old PCs passed on to me in 2000 when my mother died (aged 97). Unfortunately, the PC is undated and there is no stamp or postmark but it was posted in the early 1960s. I'm guessing the photo itself was taken in the 1930s or 1940s. Is there any way of telling whether it was before or after the WW2 bomb that rendered the market hall roofless. William Dague claims it "was gutted in 1940 during the Second World War by a German incendiary bomb". Frustratingly, the market hall itself does not show in the photo.



Many thanks - John Ball

 

[bootneck42]

I'm hoping someone can help date the photo in this picture postcard of the Bull Ring. I found it among a collection of old PCs passed on to me in 2000 when my mother died (aged 97). Unfortunately, the PC is undated and there is no stamp or postmark but it was posted in the early 1960s. I'm guessing the photo itself was taken in the 1930s or 1940s. Is there any way of telling whether it was before or after the WW2 bomb that rendered the market hall roofless. William Dague claims it "was gutted in 1940 during the Second World War by a German incendiary bomb". Frustratingly, the market hall itself does not show in the photo.

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Many thanks - John Ball

Hi John,

the car at centre front looks like a Wolsley of 1950s vintage. The van, partially hidden on the left looks like a Bantam Karrier of 1952/53.

HTH
Mike

 

[JLB]

Hi John,

the car at centre front looks like a Wolsley of 1950s vintage. The van, partially hidden on the left looks like a Bantam Karrier of 1952/53.

HTH
Mike

Many thanks Mike. Later than I thought! I would never have been able to identify those vehicles!

 

[Vivienne14]

Fish Market corner of Bell Street (on the immediate right) is still there in the photo. It was demolished 1958. That dates the photo likely to be sometime in the six year period between 1952 - 1958.

 

[JLB]

Fish Market corner of Bell Street (on the immediate right) is still there in the photo. It was demolished 1958. That dates the photo likely to be sometime in the six year period between 1952 - 1958.

Thank you Vivienne. So the photo was taken at least a decade later than I imagined. From the message on the back, I believe the PC was posted about 1960, which fits in nicely with the time-span you have indicated.