Edward Harry Jukes - Grocer
Edward Jukes traded at 311 Soho Road, right next to the junction with Boulton Road. His speciality "Boultonwattee" is of interest with it's clear local appeal. Presumably the tea was just packaged differently ...
Edward Road
Lots of interest in the photographer from a group of young boys outside a shop on this road in 1958.
F. E. Spencer - Baker and Confectioner
Francis Edmund Spencer ran a bakery opposite the Library. He also had premises at number 93 on Holyhead Road so it would seem his "fancy" flour and delivery service were very popular in Victorian and ...
F.E. Bailey Grosvenor Bakery
Frank Edward Bailey traded at 48 Grove Lane - one door from the junction with Grove Avenue.The business is not listed as the Grosvenor Bakery in the trade directory, perhaps the name was a pun on the ...
F.H. Simms - Family Grocer
An advert for the shop which, as the advert says, was at 29 Monument Road. As well as being a grocer it supplied tea and other provisions.
Frank Trippas & Son, Ladypool Road
Trippas & Son were a bakery and confectioners for many decades on the Ladypool Road/ St Paul's Road junction. The premises today are now the Lahore Asian Sweet Centre but are still largely recognisable ...
Frederick Wilkes - Greengrocer
A portrait of Frederick William Wilkes, greengrocer of Lee Bank. In the 1901 Birmingham directory F.W. Wilkes makes his first appearance trading at 123 Great Colmore Street and for a short time afterwards ...
Fried Fish Shop, Newcombe Road
The photograph shows Irene and Ethel Jones standing outside the Fried Fish Shop owned by Harry Bayliss which stood at 113 Newcombe Road. The shop remained in business through to the 1950's under a number ...
George Albert Asbury's Shop, 55 Key Hill, Hockley
George Albert Asbury's Shop, 55 Key Hill, Hockley 1906
Handsworth Dairies
Handsworth Dairies opened in 1910 at Woodville Cottage on the corner of Forge Lane, the proprietors being Valentine and Carleton White. In 1917 they moved to 138 Holyhead Road and then in 1924 onto Island ...
Handsworth Dairies
Handsworth Dairies opened in 1910 at Woodville Cottage on the corner of Forge Lane, the proprietors being Valentine and Carleton White. In 1917 they moved to 138 Holyhead Road and then in 1924 onto Island ...
Handsworth Dairy milk float
Handsworth Dairies opened in 1910 at Woodville Cottage on the corner of Forge Lane, the proprietors being Valentine and Carleton White. In 1917 they moved to 138 Holyhead Road and then in 1924 onto Island ...
Hickman's greengrocers on Monument Road
Seen here are Ralph Hickman and staff at the Monument Road premises. In fact they had two seperate shops on Monument Road at their peak as well as one on King Edward's Road.
Hickman's the greengrocer
Hickmans was on the corner of Nelson Street and King Edward's Road. This view of the shop and staff was taken just before the outbreak of the First World War. The staff here include George Rafferty, May ...
Icknield Street
View of Icknield Street in the nineteen fifties. To the left is Spring Hill Library, a fine redbrick Victorian structure still there to this day. The shops have now long gone but they include Walter Smith ...
Imran Enterprises on Ladypool Road
Greengrocers and general supplies. This is near to the junction with Studley Street. The row of shops here were originally the Birmingham Co-Operative Society.
J.E. Caswell - Groceries and Provisions
Joseph Caswell was a grocer. Number 75 is three doors from the Villa and Hall Road junctions.
From 'Handsworth Church Calendar 1937' by B. A. Porter.
James Hunte Poster in shop window
James Hunte, who ran the Mohammed Ali Centre in Hockley stood as an independent councillor in the late 1970's