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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Bordesley Station: gwrbg2706
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Photograph believed to be taken between 1936 and 1939
showing the redundant High Street entrance to the original Bordesley station on
the right and the adjacent shops. From left to right the shops are; No 120
Bertie Jones (Hairdressers), No 119 Bordesley Electrical, No 118 Clayton Smith
(Furnishers & Upholsterers), No 117 Joe Fox (Confectioner) and No 116
Tricoft Motors (Motor Traders). This last property was the original station
entrance, until 1915 when Bordesley station was relocated to the other side of
the Coventry Road in preparation for the quadrupling of the railway line. At
this time a new station entrance was provided under the road bridge (see 'gwrbg1330'). The original station entrance, which had
a covered driveway became the home of a succession of Motor Trading Companies
including Tricroft Motors who took over the premise from Goodwill
Garage Motor Traders in 1936. Tricroft specialised in fitting bespoke
commercial bodies on to petrol-engined three-wheel underframes. In late 1940
the premise was bombed during an air-raid and Tricorft Motors went in to
liquidation in May 1941.
In front of the shops is what is believed to be a Morris R
type Middleweight Champion (probably model R11/30) fitted with a
commercial van body carrying the Hardings Bakery livery. Prior to 1933 Morris
produced over 17,700 of the R type commercial vehicles mostly at their Adderley
Park works. The Harding'Hardingss Royal Steam Bakery was a large concern
based at the Swan, Yardley, with branches predominately in the south west of
the city (Small Heath, Hay Mills, Hall Green and King's Heath). We are indebted
to Graham Laucht for researching most of the information in this caption.
Robert Ferris
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