More mystery scenes

Hi Helen, I was just going to answer my own question, the Municipal Lodging Bureau was at no 1 Union Street, during ww2. And helped to find homes fir 40,000 people during the war. I actually wondered if my grandmother worked there as she told me she had a job during the war and she used to go to the station and make sure the girls who came to work in the city had accommodation. She continued to work fir the civil service until she retired.

GL Jackson's are listed in the 1939 Telephone Directory as 1 Union Street

Anne 1 Union Street would be very handy for those walking from the station. Thanks MR I really like it when we do the team thing. Two in a row.

I love watching.

Credit to you, Kaga. I had to dig it out, you recognised it by sight.

The old Cranes inn was the top of Bishop Street, billeted by soldiers in the past, on the right hand side. Wasn't Jacksons, the old Irish pub and lodging house that ended the Irish path through Greyfriars Green from the Allesley Old Road?

Yes Kaga, I think we're talking about the same places.

In looking at the wonderful photo again, I see that the Old Wheel has its name up high on the front! Before this mystery was solved, I was trying to describe it to my mum over the phone. She couldn't come up with the location but, when it was revealed that this was Leicester Row and Leicester Street, it brought back many memories. My maternal grandfather was born at 19 Leicester Street and after a spell in Cox Street his family settled at 11 Leicester Street in the 1900s. Mum says Leicester Street was quite rundown in comparison with Leicester Row, and that my grandmother would make frequent derogatory remarks about Leicester Street even though she had grown up in Swan Street herself! Anyway, mum's memory relevant to the photo is that my granddad was employed by Percy Cross, landlord of the Old Wheel, as the "chucker-outer" when a patron got rowdy.

Recognise this one Helen? Labelled as another Sadler image?

I do know where it was. but I'll let a few others have a guess first.

You're going to have to PM me Helen - it's driving me nuts! I can't think of anywhere where there was what appears to be predominantly a round building?

As there are no takers, I'll relieve your frustration Neil. It's the church on the north side of West Orchard. It started out with a squarish front but was either rebuilt or remodelled. The latter I think. I believe it was destroyed by the war, so this must predate the bombing? I put a question mark because as with those buildings on Gosford Street, the damage sometimes wasn't apparent from street level but behind the front wall the buildings were no longer viable. It's a good image, the only direct photo of the front I've seen. It appears on a Bunney painting and quite a few aerial shots.

Fantastic Helen! So that has to be the best image yet from ground level pre-war West Orchard! Interesting though as most of the rest of the Sadler imagery appear to be post-war?

Helen, this one has always been marked as the Congregational Chapel? Is this the same building post-war?

I noticed that and couldn't originally square it with the church I saw on the maps and other images. As it turns out the complex was bigger than the church. There was a building directly behind the church that was originally a school. That then has an extension added running parallel to the chapel. It is all then just labelled 'Hall'. The photo above would be the front of that extension. The building on the left of this photo is the back of the building on the right in the previous photo. That building was relatively new and was built after the church was remodelled. Map.