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Post by Jerry on Aug 17, 2016 16:37:20 GMT
You live and learn. Last week, while searching for something else I discovered that this little stretch between Prince Albert Street and Muntz Street before being demolished and rebuilt in it's present form was home to several shops and a pub called The Green Lane Tavern which would have been about where Pinnicks is in this pic. I'd never come across any reference to it before but it was there at least as far back as the early 1800s and disappeared sometime between 1907 and 1915. Anybody else heard of it? Jerry
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Post by Jerry on Aug 18, 2016 9:27:44 GMT
The large building looks a bit like what became John Blundell Furniture Store (1960's-70's) and later BJ Cash & Carry (1980s). If I'm not mistaken that bus stop is still there - bus numbers 16 and 17. Hi Abid You're right about John Blundell, When I left school our mum bought me my first suit there "on the knock". I wore it when I started work in the BSA wages office. The building was originally the Green Lane Picture House aka The Bughole. The bus stop is still there as you said but it's just the 17 bus now Jerry PS Pinnicks shop, next to the picture house, was where our dad bought our first tv in 1956, also "on the knock"
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Post by mac on Aug 27, 2016 21:20:06 GMT
Jerry
The Green Lane Tavern was at 220 Green Lane but I think there must have been a renumbering at sometime because prior to 1880 it is listed as 221. I cannot find a listing before 1872 in the directory's except for a beer retailer being listed between Albert Street & Victoria Street. In 1903 I found the last listing for the Green Lane Tavern as in 1904 it changed to a furniture dealer.
This section of an OS map c1890 shows the location of the pub before they cut through to join Muntz Street to Victoria Street, sorry I don't have a picture of the pub, but I would imagine there might be one about somewhere.
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Post by marco68 on Nov 14, 2020 17:07:09 GMT
The picture house was built on the site of two houses and a dairy ... yup, a dairy... ran by the Couchman family (my ancestors), the big car park was formerly a paddock (they had proper grazing land out at Hay Mills) .....
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