Owen Owen

Why wouldn't it have been part of Owen Owen’s basement in 1937? In fact why not the basement in Neil’s photo in post #178?

Not all bricks had a frog in them, some had holes and others were still solid. When I built my first house in the early seventies all the bricks were solid, hell of a job to cut to length.

That's right. I seem to remember the cheaper commons (light pink colour) having frogs, whereas the darker engineering bricks generally had 3 off 1" dia holes. I think the blues were solid. I'm going back to when I was a little boy and the builders were building a new garage because the old wooden one was rotten and falling down.

The brickwork looks as if it might be the part of the outside wall of the 1937 Owen Owens in Trinity Street, running south to north.

The solid (hard and heavy) blue bricks are a damp course brick, from my memory they were completely solid. Coventry bricks (general use) had frogs, ive cleaned up thousands of them for my bricklayer father. They are far better than the new wire cut bricks, drop them and they break!

This shows the footprint of the store

Thank you for all your comments. I went back to have a closer look at the bricks, but the hole has now been filled in. I am personally convinced that it was part of Owen Owen as the location is right and I don't think anything previous to Owen Owen would have been that substantial (the wall is ~18" thick). Peter.

Peter B Yes, Peter, what other building could it have been? Had they have moved just a few inches south they would have found a time tin, this tin had many coins of 1950 era placed and buried in the foundations of the modern Owen Owen’s.

Welcome 20-A Manor House. I love this button. I live in Virginia but when I go home I miss not seeing Owen Owens on Broadgate. We weren't well off but there was always enough to visit Santa. I used to love those kids Post Office sets and always wrote him a letter and put it in the real post box in our street. Merry Christmas to all and a Better New Year!