Uploads from Caroline & Phil Bunford, with geodata

Grange Road in Snow

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:51:49 -0800

Solihull area.

Iron Church.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:31:49 -0700

This church was built in Bringsty Common, Herts in 1891.
It closed in 1988.
It was produced by J.C Humphreys of London - one of many corrugated iron buildings suppliers of the time.

Stratford Road, Shirley

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:06:48 -0700

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

There is a letter 'U' on the door handle on the Marie Curie shop. I wondered if anybody knew what the 'U' stood for?

Poltair.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:53:54 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Taken from 1939 Cornwall directory

On Googling the hotel, I found it is still there and open for business, just wonderful!
www.poltair.co.uk/

CML House - 148-149 Great Charles St.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:03:56 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Birmingham.

'A 9 storey stepped-up tower of 1939 for Colonial Mutual Life Assurance by Hennessy, Hennessy & Co. of Sydney.' (Pevsner)

53 Raddlebarn Road.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:42:32 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Birmingham

This was a restaurant owned by Hamilton
Browne Livingston in 1933.

Somerfield, Moseley.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:05:49 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

There's something charming about these 60's style structures.
They are really growing on me.
I think it's worth capturing them as I have seen many 60's buildings demolished recently.

52 Enid St.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:48:52 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Toxteth, Liverpool

My ancestors on my Champion side lived in this house in 1911.

Adam and Eve.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:16:47 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Ravenhurst St, Birmingham

Ephraim Phillips

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:19:33 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Bissell St, Birmingham

Former Print Works, Moseley Rd.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:39:07 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Birmingham

Untouched.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:15:02 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

St Michaels Square, Gloucester

Talbots - Beer Bottlers.

nobody@flickr.com (Caroline & Phil Bunford) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:10:43 -0800

Caroline & Phil Bunford posted a photo:

Ladybellegate St, Gloucester

This ghost sign may well be the only reminder of the drink and bottling business founded in Gloucester by Thomas Talbot in 1845. Indeed the building fronting Commercial Street, which housed the company's offices, was due to be demolished at the end of 2010.
Founded originally as the Talbot Mineral Water Company, it produced not only water but also ginger beer. Talbot's products must have sold well enough since in 1870 he had enough funds to finance the construction of a new drinks factory on land once owned by Franciscan monks (hence the name of the area: Blackfriars). The office building on Commercial Street might have been part of that expansion. Thomas Talbot died in 1891 but his business continued to do well. At some point Talbot & Co (the name may have been changed following Thomas's death. Later it became Talbots Bottlers (Gloucester) Ltd) started bottling beer and cider for other companies, including Bass and Worthington. The decline and restructuring of the brewing industry in the 1930s and in the aftermath of the Second World War must have had a dramatic impact on a relatively minor player in the bottling business like Talbots. It appears they sold the Commercial Road building in 1954 and went out of business around 1958
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