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Coffee house near to Broad Street.

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Strawberry Hunter

master brummie
I've heard that the blacksmiths from my family who worked in Broad Street and lived in Cambridge St, used to frequent a coffee house that was opposite or near to the old registry office site on Broad Street.

Apparently they used to be able to see their premises from the coffee house, so it was a good place to wait for any work.

Without looking at my notes, I'm only guessing the period, early 20th century.

Could this coffee house belong to the Cadbury family, any info would be interesting.
 
Later there was a Lodge Coffee House at 168 - 169 Broad Street - not sure if its the same as the one opened in 1878. Viv.
 
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Thank you, how interesting. Hopefully I can get some more info, a pic would be great, but I won't get too excited, possibly hard to find.

If the theatre was next door, then I might be lucky!

Great to read about the opening day and who was in attendance.

I want to try and research what establishments were in Broad Street at the time that the forge was there, build up a picture of their environment. Plus it's really interesting to see what was in Broad Street at anytime.
 
The Birmingham coffee house company was at 294 Broad St. It also had a premises at 1 Broad St Corner, . The Broad St corner premises are listed slightly before the other site. They are shown in red on the map

map 1880s showing 294 Broad st and 1 Broad st corner.jpg
 
I was hoping Mike would get me a map like this! Thanks Mike. Very interesting to see what was on the street.

I didn't think there would be coffee shops back then! I just thought there were pubs!

Interesting to see the Broad Street corner and how the layout was.
 
The photo below shows the Prince of Wales Theatre (right) so the coffee must have been somewhere on the left or at least very close.This is around the 1920s but the buildings would most probably be familiar to your blacksmiths Kat.

There's a long Broad Street thread here to kick-off your research. Viv.

Broad Street

Bush House as built - I seem to remember it was council offices, including the housing dept. Wasn't there a HMSO somewhere near to there? Perhaps on the RH corner?
birminghamhistory.co.uk birminghamhistory.co.uk
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The 1936 Kellys lists Etna lighting as no 293 and Cooke & Murray as 294. so it looks like the extreme left shop in Viv's photo is the same number as the coffee house, though not sure it was then the same building
 
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