POPPYCHRISTINA Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 One of the things that has happened as I get older is that I look around me at buildings which I have bypassed before without really looking at them properly. .Many is the time that I have stood outside The Brown Bear on Norfolk Street and never noticed this engraving before . The writing is over a door opposite the pub.Anyone know anything about it or Jeffie Bainbridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl1867 Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 One of the things that has happened as I get older is that I look around me at buildings which I have bypassed before without really looking at them properly. .Many is the time that I have stood outside The Brown Bear on Norfolk Street and never noticed this engraving before . The writing is over a door opposite the pub.Anyone know anything about it or Jeffie Bainbridge? Will this do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POPPYCHRISTINA Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Will this do? Thanks Dunsbyowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin72 Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Had a closer look at this building yesterday. There is a lot more left than the plaque. Both Emerson and Jeffie Bainbridge's initials are there and male and female carved heads too (presumably the couple themselves). Here are photos of the initials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 A very, very impressive organisation: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin72 Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 It's going to be a pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Is this the same doorway? Calvin72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin72 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 11 hours ago, southside said: Is this the same doorway? Calvin72 Looks like it The Childrens Shelter certainly has two of those large carriage sized entrances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 The Concord chinese was at 106 Surrey Street. The Childrens Shelter itself appears to have used the first and second floors (marked 2 & 3 on the map). The Halifax Building Society first moved in during 1917, following the loss of premises jointly operated with the Halifax and District Permanent Banking Co. at 53/55 Surrey Street, which were lost on the takeover of the latter by the Union Bank of Manchester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 In 1974 the first shop past the Upper Chapel, was the Typewriter Centre,(which I think you entered via the Jeffie Bainbridge entrance ) then the S M C Shirt Shop and then the Concord Chinese Restaurant, I have a feeling that the Restaurant was named Hudson's at one time, the dining area was up a flight of stairs as you went in, I can remember going in a couple of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Norfolk Street, (Norfolk Row to Surrey Street), 1957 directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, SteveHB said: Norfolk Street, (Norfolk Row to Surrey Street), 1957 directory. The tobacconist, Michael Mower had a ornate Rams Head in his window,with silver mounts on its horns plus other silver embellishments, if I recall correctly in the centre of its head it had a large circular snuff box that had a lid, I’ll never forget that Rams Head it was in the corner window on Norfolk Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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