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Coaney & Co Dale End
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sylviasayers
master brummie
Di, I wonder if the E.Coaney & Co., shop in the photo was the forerunner of Coaneys who hired out crockery and utensils for functions.
Di.Poppitt
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
I don't know Sylvia, but it's such an unusual name there has to be some connection.
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Rod
Guest
In a slightly later Kelly's E Coaneys is listed as a Glass & Bottle Maker at 88 Moor St......There is also E Coaneys listed as a Glass & Bottle Maker at 39 Dale End. The sign above the shop with Coaney on also has a pointing finger!
Number 45 Dale end is a clothier and the picture states the window is full of sox
Sylvia it might be that the company or or family member went on to do as you say. O0
Number 45 Dale end is a clothier and the picture states the window is full of sox
Sylvia it might be that the company or or family member went on to do as you say. O0
sylviasayers
master brummie
I'm glad you were able to solve the puzzle Rod.
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Stitcher
Guest
I have discovered this lovely picture in amongst my 'bits', I am assuming it is the picture being discussed on this thread.
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silvertone
New Member
I have a table knife of unusual design from E. Coaney and Co. Ltd, Dale End, Birmingham. When I was a boy in the 1950s this was my 'personal' knife. I don't know how we came to have it, and I've never come across another one like it.
Annieflipflop
New Member
I know this post is probably too late but just to say that Coaney’s in Dale End was owned by my grandfather Frank Stanford (who also owned Stanford and Mann’s in New Street, stationers and printers) and was run by my mother during the 1950s. It supplied crockery and kitchen utensils to hotels and even cross-channel ferries. I remember as a child, using a sand-blaster to blast “Mitchell & Butler” on glass beer mugs. It moved to Paradise Street I think in the 60s.
Radiorails
master brummie
This, from memory is a fruit knife. Fruit and fish dining knives were not usually very sharp.
I have found a large patch of various broken pottery glass bottles oyster shells ect in Sandwell valley a piece of crockery maybe a mustard pot ? Was amongst the debri it had this name and address stamped on it E. Coaney&co 82 moor street Birmingham Dale end . I looked it up and found your site I’m glad I did , what a great photo of the building my find was made in !
NOTSHARP
master brummie
Lyn, I've had it for nearly sixty years. There is no chance of me throwing it away, I assure you.
Steve.
Interesting
They seems to have started as being glass bottler manufacturers. T he first mention I have in directories in in 1872 (nothing in 1868) , whenEdmiund is at 96 Steelhouse lane, described as a flint glass bottle maker. By the 1878 directory he has moved to 82 Moor St, and by 1879 it is Edmund Coaney & Co. Sometime between the 1884 and 1888 directories it added 39 Dale End to its establishments. Between 1892 and 1895 the firm also became publican bar fitters . with that side of the business in Dale end. Presumably the knife comes from after that time
They seems to have started as being glass bottler manufacturers. T he first mention I have in directories in in 1872 (nothing in 1868) , whenEdmiund is at 96 Steelhouse lane, described as a flint glass bottle maker. By the 1878 directory he has moved to 82 Moor St, and by 1879 it is Edmund Coaney & Co. Sometime between the 1884 and 1888 directories it added 39 Dale End to its establishments. Between 1892 and 1895 the firm also became publican bar fitters . with that side of the business in Dale end. Presumably the knife comes from after that time
