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Penfold furniture shops

Lloyd

Lloyd

master brummie
I don't suppose anyone here remembers my father's two furniture shops, 227 Lozells Road and 97 Birchfield Road do they? They're long gone now but I've got photos of both shops - I'm not sure which is which as they were closed during the war, before I was born. They might have been bomb-damaged, I can't remember exactly what my Dad said happened. I do know that when he went to open one of them, one morning, he found the window covered with newspaper, pasted on like wallpaper. A policeman came round and said that he'd had a dressing table in the window with a large mirror, and it was a clear moonlit night so the mirror was reflecting the moonlight like a searchlight! I think he got fined for breaking the blackout regulations! Anyway, here's the pictures, with a close-up of one of the labels that used to be put on the furniture. If you recognise anything, please let me know!
 
photograph left is Birchfield Road the shop next door left is Greasley's bakers, the road you can see is Fentham Road
photograph right is Lozells Road four shops up from the Villa Cross picture house that's left of Villa Cross picture house
Lozells Road phot replaced by what I think is same as original lost one
227%20Lozells%20Road.jpg
 
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Thank you so much John, I'll be able to pinpoint the spots exactly now.
I've managed to get a closer view of Birchfield Rd shop, and another view with Dad's first wife Ethel and their Vauxhall car in Lozells Road.
 
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