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Ghost signs of Birmingham

Sorry. Can't at the moment remember exactly where this was
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Albion Street. Jones and Palmer are a very old established printing business still trading but from different premises in the Jewellery Quarter
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This concludes my photos of Ghost Signs that I took on the Guided walk around the Jewellery Quarter lead by Tracey Thorne. Please see her website https://brumsghostsigns.tumblr.com/
 
The Ledsom Street premises of G.E. Belliss built 1872-4. The sign on top of the building still visible as is the Ledson Street Works sign above the gateway. Viv.

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thats a great one viv...i think bellis must be something to do with the famous bellis and morcom company..
 
In Henrietta Street, Patentees, makers of presses, dies etc. It also tells us that the offices are at Constitution Hill. Viv.

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So far only know late 19th century Janice. Birmingham Post info tells us

According to planning documents, 6 Derwent Works was built around the late 19th century and was historically part of the Taylor & Challen Derwent Works which, over time, has become divided and under the ownership of several parties.

 

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Thanks - I did wonder if it was part of Taylor and Challen but wasn't sure. It almost looks as if it wants a building on the left with a name coming before the word "Patentees".
The firm did not become Taylor and Challen until between 1875 and 1880 so assume it was built around then.
 
In a previous post I showed a photo taken inside the gym in Henrietta Street. I post it again below showing signs from when the building was used as a motor repair business
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image.jpeg A shop sign on Nursery Road " Evening Mail". The paper was re-branded Birmingham Mail in 2005. Is the blue Evening Mail sign using that font pre-1980s, or even earlier ? Viv.
 
All I can see is your watermarks! So your real name looks like the ghost signs. Got a version without them? Or Photoshop it to make it more clearer.
 
hi viv post 581 a shop close to my heart...we used to get our comics from that paper shop...also our fireworks on bonfire night it was run by 2 sisters...only one of 6 shops left along nursery road now..the old post office building is still there as well and still has the post box outside...i remember when i had a saturday job up the lozells road i used to put a few pennies aside every week at the post office to buy our dad a brass and wooden gun...he loved his brass..that would have been about 1966...the gun was always on the wall at home and when dad passed away 3 years ago it came back to me..it now hangs proudly at the top of my landing..

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Acquinus House at 63 Warstone Lane. Surprisingly this has some nice features inside despite its use as offices (see below). It's Grade II listed.

It was built in the 1880s as a state of the art jewellery factory, with central heating and concrete floors, for the firm of Manton & Mole. The three-storey corner block housed the firm’s offices and warehouse, whilst the two-storey section fronting onto Tenby Street North accommodated workshops. Vv.

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cant remember seeing this on the forum before but its a good one...corner of hamstead rd and church hill road with st marys church in shot..

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Very nice one Lyn. The large lettering looks like Gold Flake cigarettes. I remember the tobacco but not the cigarettes. Viv.
 
hi viv...from a distance i thought it said gold flake but now it looks like bull flake and it did exist...cant be certain though oh your post 581..i grew up using that newsagents...far as i can remember it did not have the evening mail sign up when i left in 72
 
If you look in google (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Flake) it was a cigarette as well, discontinued in UK in 1986. If you look closely at the penlarged picture , then I would say that you can see the end of the cross of the G quite clearly, and possibly the end of the downstroke of the top of the G, and that the apparent joining may be misscoloured bricks. If so, then it is gold not bull
 

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I wouldn't say that Lyn. It could still be reasonably be argued that it might be Bull. I was just putting the evidence for Gold
 
The name at the top is Spalding and underneath it says confectionery. H S Spalding is listed in the 1952 phone book as a confectioner at 272 Hamstead Road the phone number was NORthern 5135. Still listed in 1958. Will see if I can find out when it stopped. Have just found them still listed in 1969.
Last update for now - earliest entry 1947 and last, so far, 1973.
 
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I can't find it in 1975 phone book - 1974 is not online for some reason. Electoral roll lists Harold S at that address in 1945 with Ivy and Harold J. Harold Swithin died in 1965 and probate went to his widow Ivy.
 
I can also make out the word Newsagent, These types of shops where known in the trade as CTNs, Confectioners, Tobacconists Newsagents, or CTs if newspapers were not sold.
 
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