Unseen Liverpool

[PhilipG]

Post 490, 1st South Liverpool pic:
Above the Tesco name, I can just see the letters ...WINS?. Now, Tesco took over IrWINS in the 1960s? This may narrow down the location.

Irwins were quite a large chain of grocers, and Tesco only managed to move to this part of the country by taking them over (in 1960 or 1961).
The 1968 Kelly's directory lists over 50 Tesco Self Service shops in Liverpool alone, and nearly all of them would have been Irwins, apart from the Tesco in Aigburth Road (which survives) which was perhaps their first new-build in Liverpool.
The name comes from TESsie COhen, wife of the founder.
My evening job at School was for Irwins, and I also remember it being said that TESCO also stood for Thames Embankment Shipping Company.
I'm just going to Google that, and see if I can confirm if that was true.

Edit.
No luck with Google.
I'll have to see if I can find the early history of Tesco which was called: "Pile it High. Sell it Cheap."