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Where is this? 70

I knew it was too easy Phil but how many people passing it today know what the shop was when Makepeace's ran it.
 
Mike

Are you telling me its closed, where am I going to get my clothes from now.

Phil
 
Stratford Road, Shirley, Phil. Seems like every other shop is a Charity Shop there now. Clothing to suit all tastes and pockets in the Makepeace tradition!
Mike
 
(Copied from a flickr photostream)


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What a wonderful facade ... once you get above the modern tat! It's great that a second-hand clothes shop owner would go the trouble and expense of such a facade.

Built just before WW1, the shop was still going strong at the start of WW2.

135-6 Digbeth.

From Wikipedia - "Another notable building in Digbeth is the now-defunct The Clothing Mart operated by George Makepeace at 135-6 Digbeth which was designed by James Patchett of Ombersley. Built in 1913, it is a steel framed structure with a mixture of façade materials. The façade consists of bright red brick and orange terracotta. The building is no longer used by George Makepeace and has changed hands, undergoing a variety of uses. Several aspects of its original architecture have been lost including a first floor iron balcony, above which electric lanterns with hooded lenses from two iron holders that remain. Either side of these were iron and glass lamps resembling Medici goblets. The orange pilasters sit on a key stone and pedimented blocks set with round pink granite stones and the parapet is of green glazed terracotta."
 
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