Now I wasn’t surprised at the interest in a set of wall tiles I wrote about on Saturday*.
They were unconvered by builders during work on the former Shareen Fashion.
I tracked the tiles to the first owner of the shop, a Mr Worthington Brice who was a fishmonger and poulter, who was in business at the beginning of the last century.
The builders thought the tiles were going to be retained, and be a feature of the new café/restaurant, but perhaps not.
Looking through the window on Saturday, they appeared to be metal strips fastened on to the tiles suggesting that a new plaster board frontage was about to consign our tiles to another prolonged period of darkness.
And that in turn will deprive us of a bit of our history.
The update ...... the animal triangles have been cut out of the wall, the fish it seems are doomed.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; wall tiles, 2019, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Rediscovering the shop on Wilbraham Road of Mr. Worthing Brice ....... fishmonger and poulterer .. https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2019/12/rediscovering-shop-on-wilbraham-road-of.html
They were unconvered by builders during work on the former Shareen Fashion.
I tracked the tiles to the first owner of the shop, a Mr Worthington Brice who was a fishmonger and poulter, who was in business at the beginning of the last century.
Looking through the window on Saturday, they appeared to be metal strips fastened on to the tiles suggesting that a new plaster board frontage was about to consign our tiles to another prolonged period of darkness.
And that in turn will deprive us of a bit of our history.
The update ...... the animal triangles have been cut out of the wall, the fish it seems are doomed.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; wall tiles, 2019, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Rediscovering the shop on Wilbraham Road of Mr. Worthing Brice ....... fishmonger and poulterer .. https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2019/12/rediscovering-shop-on-wilbraham-road-of.html
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