Andy’s essential walk took him across Stockport this week and as ever it was the bits of buildings others ignore that he found interesting.
And today it was the detail high up on the front of a shop which caught his fancy.
Back when the shop was built, the stone feature with its date were pretty much a standard addition and I guess were produced in their thousands, with variations which conformed to the company’s individual identity.
I went looking for the chain which owned this one, thinking it might have been a co-op, but as yet haven’t identified it.
But someone will, and may even come up with a picture of the shop on opening day in 1913, or soon afterwards.
Today it is still a shop dispensing groceries and much else.
Location; Stockport
Picture; the shop 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson
Back when the shop was built, the stone feature with its date were pretty much a standard addition and I guess were produced in their thousands, with variations which conformed to the company’s individual identity.
I went looking for the chain which owned this one, thinking it might have been a co-op, but as yet haven’t identified it.
But someone will, and may even come up with a picture of the shop on opening day in 1913, or soon afterwards.
Location; Stockport
Picture; the shop 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson
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