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gt hampton row
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I like this photo Lyn. I don't know the road but it's got lots of interest. The advertising on the side of the building includes a nice cross section of advertising: 'go to work on an egg', Playtex girdles, Park Drive and Beer (M&B or Ansells?). So many roads like this had the greengrocers with produce stacked up on orange boxes (remember people using them for furniture. Nowadays fruit boxes sell for anything between £5- £10 each down here!). I like 'Violets' hair salon. I'll bet a lot of tittle tattle was passed on from customer to customer in there. Looks like there's a hardware shop next to Violets salon. Loved those shops, sold everything. I expect this road was soon to be demolished, quite a few properties are boarded up further along the row. Viv.
cookie273uk
master brummie
Most of those shops (if not all) were originally houses converted into shops, the front room was the 'shop'. My late Wifes Aunt Ann had just such a shop in Vicararage Rd, Aston opposite the school (were the pupils would spend their pennies on sweets and pop), I remember when we visited in the 50's and early 60's her living room would be full of stock, ditto back bedroom, sacks of pruduce in the kitchen (she stocked everything) big jars of sweets on the sideboard, I coudn,t put up with that. Eric
hi eric...our dads mom had such a shop in wells st hockley and i would think all their spare space was also taken up with stock....although it would have been a bit cramped i think they were very inventive in those days turning the front rooms into these little shops....
lyn
lyn
My gt granma had a grocery shop. Same sort if thing, converted front room. She ran a very diversified business, also had a coal yard round the back. You've got to admire their enterprising spirit. Viv.
Lyn
If i could make an addition. the map you show shows the Albion foundry in 1889 (34-35 gt hampton st). by the time the photograph was taken it had expanded and taken in the works north of it to make it 34-37 (named 37 on the outside of the building for simplicity). It then occupied the area in yellow on the c1937 map below. this is evidenced in that on the photograph there is a cutting in (if that is the correct description) of the curb by the gateway . On the 1889 map this is evident on the works at 36-37. but not at the entrance of the (then) albion works.
Mike
If i could make an addition. the map you show shows the Albion foundry in 1889 (34-35 gt hampton st). by the time the photograph was taken it had expanded and taken in the works north of it to make it 34-37 (named 37 on the outside of the building for simplicity). It then occupied the area in yellow on the c1937 map below. this is evidenced in that on the photograph there is a cutting in (if that is the correct description) of the curb by the gateway . On the 1889 map this is evident on the works at 36-37. but not at the entrance of the (then) albion works.
Mike