Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
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Lark Lane.
No Larks around there though.
Gididi Gididi Goo.
ive no idea at all im afraid
its now a student housing shop
facing pumpernickles on the corner of clarence st
I wasn't expecting the 1936 street directory to still list the firm that did that mosaic.... but it does!
97 Mount Pleasant: Harriman, Edwin & Hubert Edgar, M.P.S. chemists.
Until a few years ago it sold stained glass, and it's good to see that the stained glass windows are still there.
Maybe get us a pic of the whole building, bunf or Philip. Thanks in advance if you can!
Another thought is that when the mosaic was done possibly the firm was just Edwin Harriman and that Harriman later on took Hubert Edgar (or is that Edgar Hubert?) as his partner, so that by 1936 it was both names. The mosaic's design looks art nouveau which would date it to 1890's to 1910 or so.
All my best
Chris
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
i thought yesterday, when me and bunf saw that mosaic, it might be a new thread?
I have seen quite a few around the city lately.
This school was opened in 1897 by the Wesleyan Methodist Church. It remained as a school until the early 1920s when the school moved to the local council Gilmour School. The building was then used as a Methodist church hall and community centre. With the merger of the adjacent Island Rd Methodist Church with the Garston United Reform Church onto one site, the future of the old school building is under discussion and is uncertain at the moment. The church needs to raise about £1 million GBP to refurbish the church hall and main church building. Offers of donations should be addressed to the Garston Park Church treasurer.
SCFL,
159, Regent Road
A plain looking building but one of the inscribed stones mentions the Blitz, the second states the architect/builder:
THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED
TO REPLACE ONE DESTROYED
BY ENEMY ACTION IN MAY 1941
AND WAS OPENED BY
BRIG. GEN. W.N.BICKET O.B.E.
CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR
ON 5th MARCH 1953.
MONTAGU EVANS & SON
ARCHITECTS
2 BRUNSWICK SQ. LONDON
1952
RICHARD COSTAIN & SONS
(LIVERPOOL) LTD.
CONTRACTORS
Interesting terracotta tile work typical of Coop buildings of the period around the turn of the 20th C
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