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Astoness

Astoness

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this pic came to me with the caption of william st newtown actually i think william st came under lozells anyhow have been assured by someone who lived there that this is not correct....would anyone be able to say where it is....maybe a kellys look up for the shoe hospital may help and what is that building on the top right above the houses...

cheers

lyn
 
sorry i forgot to say it looks like the shop next to the shoe hospital was an antigues shop..before it was maybe a pet shop...

hoping someone can work this one out....

lyn
 
Hi Lyn,

Checked Kellys 1964 - 1967 - nothing in William Street and no Shoe Hospital listed under businesses.

EDIT: Just done a search on the whole of Midlands Hostorical and the only Shoe Hospital that shows up is at Market Place WARWICK in 1940

Maurice
 
Why two different pages on William Street I'm still trying to sort the first one out Lyn
 
alf where is the other one for william st...i looked but could only find one....

thanks maurice...maybe it will be just one of those that we cant work out....

cheers

lyn
 
A nice name for a shoe repairer I suspect, but I've checked all the shoe trades and drawn a blank. Anyone with access to the phone book for that period???

Maurice
 
alf thats the one i am posting pics on now...you said there was two for william st and i still cant find the other one...help.....

lyn

maurice....may be a long where is this....lol
 
thanks alf...i wonder if that may be it then...i keep trying to figure out what that building could be thats showing above the houses....

lyn
 
For what help it is, in 1973-74 The Shoe Hospital was in Newtown Shopping Centre.

Phil
 
Phil:

I'm puzzled as to where you are getting that from. In the 1973-4 Directory on Midlands Historical, Newtown Shopping Centre only shows a "Shoe Supermarket".

Maurice
 
Its certainly Birmingham - the light standard is a typical Birmingham Corporation one, and may even have been a tramway overhead wire support pole - which would make this a main road. Tracks have gone, so with the minivan as well I don't disbelieve the 1967 date. But where? I can only guess at either Bath Row or Newhall Hill, just from the archetecture.
 
thanks Lloyd...unless someone knows this one for definate i think we may not get to the bottom of this one.....

lyn
 
Maurice

You are of course correct and I get my new glasses Thursday at 11 0 clock. It looks like I need them as well. Please accept my apologies.

Shoe Supermarket, shoe retlrs, Newtown District Shopping​
'Centre​

Just one thing to add, the shop next door to the subject one. I think I can make out the name Griffin, but I can find no trace of a Corn Factor or Pet Food shop of that name.

Phil​
 
crikey phil..your eyes are better than mine...i couldnt see that....its a strange one is this....

lets hope one of our members lived in this st/rd...lol....

lyn
 
I was just going to say, under the top floor window, J(?) & E(?) Griffin. I've looked in phone directories online 1959, 1950 & 1940 but no luck.
 
lloyd i think it say g & L griffin then underneath wholesale fishing tackle dealers..

Lyn
 
i can only get me hands on a 56 and 71 Lloyd....will i put a look up request on...

lyn
 
the little tin plate advert on the wall further down says....bowaters best coals soho wharf hockley...

lyn
 
Phil:

No problem, I thought that either I'd missed something or the search facility on Midlands Historical was really bad! :-)

I didn't spot the name Griffin either and after 8 years, my eyes are well overdue for a test.

Maurice
 
Playing around with the contrast a bit, I'd go for C & L Griffin - but when does that paintwork date from? :-)

Maurice

EDIT: In 1921 there is a Mrs Elsie Griffin, corn factor, at 50 Saltley Road. Any takers?
 
I have now searched Kelly's 1937, 1950, 1967, and 1973 for any Griffin selling animal feeds, pet food, fishing tackle. I have also searched the same directories for any Bowater that was a coal merchant or factor.

I have to report that I didn't find anything like either of them. Do you think it could be somewhere like West Bromwich or Dudley?

Phil
 
For the record, Herbert John & Elsie GRIFFIN lived at 50 Saltley Road from 1920 to 1930. Oh, and there's no GRIFFIN corn factors in the previous directory (1912).

Maurice
 
phil...its def birmingham as according to Lloyd the light standard is a brum one....would anyone have an idea as to what the building could be obove the houses...


lyn
 
maurice those corn dealers look promising...im going to take a closer look again at the pic...

lyn
 
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