LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Kings Heath Station: mrkh738

View of Mr Baker standing in the doorway of Dixon & Baker Coal & Coke Merchant's offices in station drive circa 1919. Sometime prior to the First World War W Baker & Son became Dixon & Baker and moved to a much more substantial office being built of brick. There were nine horses stabled in nearby Grange Road to pull the coal drays for delivery in the area. Whilst the reason for the name change is unknown William Baker was 62 at the time this photograph was taken and was to sell the business to Frederick Sharp shortly afterwards. Barrie Geens suggests that a possible reason for the sale rather than William's son taking it over was that the son might have been one of the many casualties of the First World War. Few families were untouched by the War to end all wars.

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