Yes I did see them, but the firm in photo were oil, varnish and colour merchants. I should have said " Could not find relevant firm"There is a C. Lamb and Sons in Bethnal Green London, furniture mfcts. (1930)
Yes I did see them, but the firm in photo were oil, varnish and colour merchants. I should have said " Could not find relevant firm"There is a C. Lamb and Sons in Bethnal Green London, furniture mfcts. (1930)
I think it's Market Place.There is a name on the post office.
??? Place Post Office. Looks a bit like Harrow or perhaps Market. If someone can sharpen the pic it might help.
I am going to stick my neck out and say I think this might be York. It is pedestrianised now so hard to get a good view.Time for one more - no I don't think this is Birmingham but any offers where? It was among all the Birmingham slides but doesn't look right and there are no features to give a clue of age
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Speaking Style Walk....?Finally for tonight a test , an industrial cobbled street, but where ? Fine arched leaded windows and the building on the end on the right seems to have writing on the white band, in black and white it would be almost Dickensian. Over to you
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NOR is an old Handsworth number, Nightingale Knitwear were at 305 Soho Road.My how styles and taste changes, at the risk of offending someone did we really have units like that in our homes?. Old style telephone number and rolls of carpet stacked outside. knitwear cash and carry which is wholesale only, next an empty shop and the old red and white roadwork barriers. Rear end of a Ford Cortina and sash windows at first floor level.
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when my Dad went to the pub on a Saturday night he would bring back a bottle of VP sherry for my Mum. An advert for Crimplene fabrics in fashion 293. Mop caps and bonnets in Nanette’s to keep the sun off the babbies.295 Soho Road from 1975, and what a window display Ye Olde Wine shop has, Nanette to the right and a window full of clothes and a slightly disturbing child dummy in the window and a proper pram leaving the shop. Just noticed the Ansells off license sign and I wonder if the wall painted sign is still visible.
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‘Check out’ the jacket and flares standing next to the bus shelter.348 Stratford Road 1974, a mixed variety of shops from Newsagent behind the bus shelter, to the restaurant, bay windows on first floor and attic windows , interesting brickwork on the right. Golden Virginia sign on the newsagent and a rack of the latest newspapers .
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295 Soho Road from 1975, and what a window display Ye Olde Wine shop has, Nanette to the right and a window full of clothes and a slightly disturbing child dummy in the window and a proper pram leaving the shop. Just noticed the Ansells off license sign and I wonder if the wall painted sign is still visible.
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My how styles and taste changes, at the risk of offending someone did we really have units like that in our homes?. Old style telephone number and rolls of carpet stacked outside. knitwear cash and carry which is wholesale only, next an empty shop and the old red and white roadwork barriers. Rear end of a Ford Cortina and sash windows at first floor level.
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hi sparks just a slight correction... i think you mean nightingales was at gt hampton row not street...previously the building used to be the old engine tavern pub...nightingales closed last year and and the building will be retained and restorations made which is good news as its a very old building...st view belowNOR is an old Handsworth number, Nightingale Knitwear were at 305 Soho Road.
They are still going but now in Great Hampton Street.
Last one for tonight, Enoch's Exchange and Mart 809-811 Washwood Heath Road, they dont make them like this any more !! Shop sign looks a bit big for the frontage and seems to have poles holding it up. Trailer on its side and a sideboard on the right , can only make out a guitar through the windows though, oh and a Cortina on the left(?)
Thanks for the wonderful photos, truly amazing. SueNext up same location but different view, and here we have a great sense of what has been lost - take time to get you bearings, Nelson Statue and the market Bottom left and Moor Street Station along the bottom edge, and the scar of the under pass / flyover heading out, and a nice grass island in front of the Fire Station.
It is the amount of building that have been lost amazes me come down Bull Street to High Street and Carrs Lane the amount of building that are just not there and to think we lost those for what is there today !!
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Just up from the Cross Guns - shops still there. This view 2019 because of traffic blocking view in 2020 shot.295 Soho Road from 1975, and what a window display Ye Olde Wine shop has, Nanette to the right and a window full of clothes and a slightly disturbing child dummy in the window and a proper pram leaving the shop. Just noticed the Ansells off license sign and I wonder if the wall painted sign is still visible.
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Pillar box and post office still there. Phone box went between Oct 2018 and Sept 2020.Two for the price of one next - 312 Tile Cross Road in 1969, quite a variety of items outside this shop, telephone box, postbox and stamp machine, and over to the right are wire milk crates and Midland counties Ice-cream bin and up the corner some weighing scales. Interesting shop fronts too, a door to a hairdressers with barbers pole, a window of fashion clothing backed by tin foil? and the Supermarket / newsagent come post office. On the left the nose of an old van
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