Shops in Soho Road , Handsworth
Shops in Soho Road, Handsworth, May 1903. The premises on the right belong to William Clarke, haulier, furniture remover and dealer in coal and coke, while the shop on the left has the words 'Pure milk' ...
Shops on the Soho Road
Takhar and Kanwar Travel, Envy Music and Sterling Fashions
Spittle's Boot Manufacturer
Frederick "Spittle's Noted Boots" traded at 155 Soho Road and 78 Hunter's Road. There are a few Spittle's listed in the Trade Directories of the period, all of whom lived in and around Handsworth. The ...
Spring Street, Lee Bank
Spring Street, Lee Bank, off Bell Barn Road, is on the left in this photograph, taken on 27th October 1965, and the street to the right is Spring Vale, which headed eastwards to join Bristol Road. Children ...
Stoakes (Shop advert)
Shop advertisement from programme at the St James Church Fancy Fair held on 20 Nov -23 Nov 1929. Ernest Stoakes drapery business was at 206 Soho Road, which lay between the junctions of Baker Street and ...
The Dynamite Shop closes down
The closedown of the shop on Ledsam Street was featured in the local papers because it was so well known for what happened there on 5th April 1883. On that day the owner of the shop, Alfred Whitehead, ...
The Midland Dyeing, Cleaning and Carpet Shaking Co
Two premises listed here for this company. It is interesting to note that carpets could be "taken away" for cleaning. No manager is listed for the Soho Road branch so it may have been that Walter Price ...
Thousands are flocking to Bradshaws
Advert for Bradshaws in the Evening Despatch. Principally it outlines the reasons behind their closure. The cartoon at the top names the new scheme for the area as the "Bath Row Re-Development" which ...
Uncle's Home Store on Ladypool Road
Ladypool Road has been a major shopping thoroughfare for over a hundred years. Although the names have changed it still serves the local community today as it always has done. The tops of the shops reveal ...
Warwickshire Laundries, Ladypool Road
Advert for the company reading: "Open the door to freedom, by using the Warwickshire Laundries fully finished service". The laundry was baed at 96 Ladypool Road and had delivery offices from as far away ...