A.T. Gittins and Son Ltd on Irving Street
This garage and car spares dealership was located at the Bristol Street end of Irving Street - just up from where the former Dome II nightclub now stands.
Big bargains at Bradshaws
Advert placed in the Evening Despatch during Bradshaw's closure period. This one is noteworthy for it's appeal directly to male customers. Most of the local residents who remember Bradshaw's would agree ...
Blessing of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank
The blessing of the new Catholic Church of St Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank, would have taken place in 1965. The new church, designed by Harrison & Cox, was built in 1964/5 on the corner of Bristol Street ...
Bradshaws - Shut after 54 years
The day Bradshaws closed only received this short report in the Evening Despatch. It closed at noon on 29th March 1958 after 54 years open in Cregoe Street.
Bradshaws awaiting demolition
The Cregoe/ Irving Street half of the shop closed and awaiting the bulldozers. The clock has noticeably gone already and to the right can be seen Wright and Platt who were on Irving Street for many years. ...
Bradshaw's closes - Queues for the last time
Article from the Evening Despatch on the closure of Bradshaw's Stores in Cregoe Street. The store closed in 1958 after 54 years open to the public. Bernard Bradshaw, the owner, had considered a new store ...
Bristol Street School
Bristol Street School stood at the end of Irving Street facing onto Bristol Street. To the right of the photograph can be seen the National Privincial Bank and the spire of the old St Catherine of Siena ...
Corner of Irving and Bow Street
The redevelopment of the Lee Bank area in the fifties and sixties seemed to bypass a small area along Bow Street and onto Irving Street. Some old former factory and small business workshops survive along ...
Cregoe Street 2004
This view is towards what was most famously the site of Bradshaws. The turning to the right is where Irving Street once was and directly opposite was Latimer Street. Bradshaw's Stores stood either side ...
Cregoe Street and Irving Street, Lee Bank
The junction of Cregoe Street and Irving Street, Lee Bank. The boarded-up shop on the corner was formerly H.B. Bradshaw Ltd, who were drapers, carpet specialists and men's, ladies and children's outfitters. ...
Irving Street - Another view of the VE Day Party
One of the two photographs we have of the party which took place on Irving Street to celebrate the end of the war in Europe. Nobody on this photograph has been named as yet.
Irving Street - VE Day Party
None of the people on this picture are named but they are presumably all from Irving Street. This is one of two views of the tables that were laid out for the day. Any information on those present or ...
Irving Street and Islington Row in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory 1939
Also including the following streets: Island Road and Ivor Road.
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Irving Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
As well as Irving Street this page also includes the following streets: Innage Road, Institute Road, Inverclyde Road, Ireton Road, Iris Close, Iron Lane.
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Irving Street, Lee Bank
Redevelopment was well under way in Irving Street, Lee Bank, when this photograph was taken on 25 February 1965. The area had been classed as a Comprehensive Development Area since the early 1950s and ...
Irving Street, Lee Bank
Nos. 157 and 159A Irving Street, Lee Bank, are seen here in a photograph taken in the early 1960s just before wholesale redevelopment of the area. The name over the door of no. 157, on the left, is William ...
Lance Sergeant Archie Cross (270064, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
Reported missing in the Weekly Mercury of 7th October 1916. He had at that time been missing since 1st July and his mother Mrs Cross of 4 Back 85 Irving Street was desperate for news of him.
Sadly, ...
Memories of Lee Bank by Jim Davenport
The Lee Bank I remember as a child 70 years ago was vastly different to what it is today, we even had three chemists!
I was born in 1898 in the part of Irving Street that no longer exists. The area ...