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Ghost signs of Birmingham

I have enlarged it. The building in the courtyard looks to have a man seated left and to me it looks like an old printing press.?
 
In 1913 Chas Adkins was active at the Henley Show buying a fine quality shorthorn For 28 quid, also a Devon for 28, a bullock for 30 and further shorthorns for 22 And 24.

The silver cup to the highest buyer during the year was awarded to Chas Adkins of Moseley Road, Birmingham.

He must have had a load of bullocks in his back yard !
 
Pedrocut said:
530, in 1897 was EJ White, Chemist and Grocer, and in 1915 AW Marshall.

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Pedrocut said:
In 1913 Chas Adkins was active at the Henley Show buying a fine quality shorthorn For 28 quid, also a Devon for 28, a bullock for 30 and further shorthorns for 22 And 24.

The silver cup to the highest buyer during the year was awarded to Chas Adkins of Moseley Road, Birmingham.

He must have had a load of bullocks in his back yard !
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Sorry but I have to say, I think I am a living Ghost Sign myself, since lockdown. I just looked in the mirror (a dangerous occupation) before bed. I have proper Bisto Kid hair!
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Looking for info on another thread about French Walls, Smethwick, I came across a French Walls Tavern situated near Soho Station. A candidate would be at Rabone Lane, and the present building is shown from Google Street View, and at the top is Staffordshire Knot 1892....I can’t see that it has featured before.

(Edit.....Should of said that the French Walls Tavern was mentioned in 1869)

(Edit 2....The Staffordshire Knot address is actually Rolfe Street)

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The Staffs Knot looks to have had a refit in 1892, and is mentioned as early as 1862. Therefore probably not the French Walls Tavern that was mentioned in 1869.

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It is a former Birmingham Co-op Society shop. I am sure I have posted about it on here before. Maybe on a Co-op thread. Every time I go past I feel so sad about its decline.
 
yes another co op out of action...like jan i also find it sad..very distinctive shape to most co op shops..think there are 2 near me..one is now a tyre fitting place

lyn
 
Now that looks a reasonably attractive commercial building, Jonob, whilst its successor, like many buildings today with their steel shutters, remind us of what criminal places most of our cities have become.

Maurice :cool:
 
ellbrown said:
Another look at the Food Market building on Lakey Lane in Hall Green. It's been closed for a very long time.

At the top it says: BCS (or C BS).



I previously took it in the snow of March 2018.

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There are several old Co Ops in Coventry like this. One has become a place of worship, an old depot. Two are DIY outlets. One is a charity shop. They were distinctive weren't they. And painted light blue. The main one was going to be a Student Cyber Café. Something studenty. Everything is geared at students now. The Fletchhampstead pub and Canley WMC - student accommodation and a student village. Would have made lovely homes.
 
pjmburns said:
I thought the lettering was gold.
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I can't remember, when you are little you don't look up. Not high up. Well I didn't. I know what the counters looked liked. Dark polished wood. Sawdust floor in some with black and white mosaic tiles. Or was it blue and white.? Ladies in pale sad blue cotton overalls one man in a brown cow gown sliding across the high shelves on a ladder or a white cow gown if they were patting butter or slicing bacon. Usually the boss. The smart ladies wore coats over theirs in the winter. Bow fronted windows. I am remembering gold somewhere on the windows. On the wood surrounds I think. They did a ticket queueing service. I thought Nan had one a prize! I can even remember Nan's divvy 5 digit number and the cut thicknes number she had her bacon. She bought milk checks. Green ones. Loose biscuits in glass topped metal tins in the middle of the shop. "Don't touch!" Brass weighing scales like the Libra horoscope sign. They were on a pale grey marble counter. It had a special smell too. Gold letters I think in fine capitals. ramble! ramble!
 
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