Barbers Tea was a trade name and in such cases often the possessive apostrophe is omitted. Lyons Tea, Ringtons Tea (sold in Newcastle) but Cadbury Cocoa. It is just a convention and company policy may change. Harrod's became Harrods.
F.W. Woolworth is another company that fought a losing battle with its customers! Better to have a mangled version of ones name on the public's lips than none at all.
I think that however you punctuate it Woolworth no longer trades in the UK. There might be some ghost signs?
So Typhoo put the T in Britain but Barbers took the apostrophe out lol!
English is curious. Suppliers of tea, meat, cloth, paper etc. refer to their products in the singular even though they actually supply more than one variety. Suppliers of biscuits, cars or vegetables use the plural form though, so we have Tetley Tea but Carr's Biscuits. Insert the word 'company' and the plurals become singular, e.g. Ford Cars but Ford Car Company.
Me too
But, towards the end of life of the factory in Birmingham, the red neon sign on the factory lost the t and read just yphoo , so could be said that, w.hen they decided to move from brum, Brum took the t from typhoo
Where exactly on Pershore St was Teaplant House I wonder and guess it's long gone.
I think there is something in front of Presswork as the word is not central. Could be EX.
It does look curved so it could be.
Not sure if you solved the mystery of that building but to me it looks like the building that supplied electricity for the overhead wires
Yes, Janice, the FB picture was posted 2014, it looks as if the curved steps have subsequently been removed? (But the picture is earlier than that) Derek
I see what you mean. Yes the Edwardian ornamentation each side has been removed.
