Kunzle's building, Suffolk Street, Birmingham

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Date:30th of January 1958

Description:This newscutting from the Evening Despatch of 30 January 1958 announces the plan for the new building on the site bounded by Suffolk Street, Paradise Street and Swallow Street. The cake and confectionery company, C. Kunzle Ltd, were to build this office block at the expected cost of a third of a million pounds as part of the new Ring Road scheme. On the ground floor would be shops, including one of Kunzle's own on the corner. The architect was Seymour Harris, who may not quite have meant it to be 'as architecturally splendid' as one of Kunzle's own cakes, as the Despatch chose to put it.

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