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The Sheldona Café

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
I came across this the other day, it's the Sheldona Café on Coventry Rd close to the Wheatsheaf Hotel. Anybody know anything about it as its the first time I have ever seen or heard of it. This photo was taken c1920.

I would like to know when it closed and where exactly on the Coventry Rd by the Wheatsheaf it was located. I have to say how fine it looks, just the sort of place that would attract lots of diners today.

Phil

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The 1928 warwickshire directory lists a cafe run by Mrs Adeline Elliot and a restaurant run by John Grayland in sheldon, but no indication of the road thye were on.
Mike
 
Mike,

In the book I was reading it is described as located on Coventry Rd close to the Wheatsheaf Hotel and the photo is c1920 that is all the information it gives. As I said I have never come across it before.

Phil
 
phil...i agree..its a fine building and you can just see a building to the right surely it must be listed in kellys....


lyn
 
Lyn

The problem is in the earlier editions the location is just outside Birmingham being Olton or Solihull. The later editions don't list it so it had probably gone by then.

Phil
 
Lynn
The trouble is that it looks like that at that time it was outside birmingham, certainly the Wheatsheaf was. The Warwickshire kellys just list a few private names and businesses for sheldon, without in many cases even listing the road.
Mike
 
Hi Phil,
Only a guess but it could have been on the opposite corner to the Wheatsheaf, I've done this mock-up of your pic, the Wheatsheaf as is now, and an old pic of the Wheatsheaf.
The building to the right certainly looks like the Wheatsheaf.
Regards John.
 
Phil, I have a thought that the cafe was on the same side as the Wheatsheaf pub on the r/hand side of the Coventry Rd before you got to the Brum boundary at "Tigers Island", Warwick County Council started at that boundary, i remember a snooker club in that location pre WW2, but i was not born until 1929. Len
 
There used to be a cafe on the corner of the Coventry rd and Horse Shoes lane on the opporsite corner to the 3 Horse Shoes pub in the 60's.
 
Len

I don't think it was that far out, wasn't Tigers Island out at Elmdon close to the old Green Lane that went towards Marston Green?

Phil
 
Phil, Tigers Island was the terminus for the Trolley Bus from by The Swan Hotel close to were i lived we would get off & walk in the countryside and what was Elmdon Park and towards Elmdon Airport. Len.
 
It does look like the cafe that used to stand on the corner of Coventry Rd
and Horse Shoes Lane opposite the Three Horse shoes pub.

At the rear of the cafe, there used to be a coal merchants which was
accessed from Horse shoes Lane. The cafe used to sell genuine Cornish ice cream.

The SheldonA is most likely the forerunner of that particular cafe.

It doesn't look anything like the Wheatsheaf either now or previously.


regards
Neville..
 
Hi Phil i have lived in sheldon for the last 40 years,
i have never knew there used to be a cafe on the
Coventry Rd.called the Sheldon.
regards
Richard.
 
Hi Phil i have lived in sheldon for the last 40 years,
i have never knew there used to be a cafe on the
Coventry Rd.called the Sheldon.
regards
Richard.
Richard, I lived by The Swan from birth to 1956, from that year i have lived in Sheldon for 59yrs, i don`t remember a Sheldona Cafe, i think there was snooker club & an undertakers district office, opposite the Sheldon cinema, just down Horse Shoes Lane there was a tennis club at least till about 8yrs ago it might still be there, i will check. Len.
 
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