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Montague Fisher keeps coming up in my memory,was that a photographers or a Tailors ?,any help for my addled brain will be warmly welcome'd. :-)

montague fisher

http://www.fisheraudiovisual.co.uk/about.php


Montague Fisher took his first steps towards the future in the late 1940s, moving the focus of his Birkenhead business from pharmaceuticals to photography. Fisher Audio Visual’s current reputation for innovation traces its roots back to this shop, where the company installed the UK’s first-ever automatic vending machine for black and white film.


Another 1st for Birkenhead

Thank you kindly sir,I was trying to remember a tailors at the back Grange rd I think it would have been above where that slot machine place is,top end by the cross,all I could think of was Montague Fisher.

Thanks, Derek, for yet more pics of Grange Rd. I remember Forizo well; I bought a cactus there just after the war, about 1947/48. The firm is still in existence; they have a unit in Holborn Square. Just out of shot, next to Forizo, was Fabbri's ice cream parlour. Dunn's originally sold only hats, in the days when few men would be seen without one, if only a flat cap. They late sold other clothing & until recently they had a branch in Shrewsbury.

I can remember Fabris (or was it Olivieras) further down the Dunn block of shops
On the corner of Collingwood St was a pet shop with ice cream cafe next to it

the tailors was it Hymie Jacobs or was that in Oxton Rd possibly on the corner where Skeleton Records is now

Oh what a poor memory I have

Hymie was in Grange Rd, I think it was about opposite Robb's. I had a mate who had murder with them over a Highwayman's collar.

Thanks people it was Hymie Jacobs I was thinking about,I bought my first made to measure suit from him,thought I was the bee's knees in it.:-)

The bakers next to the old Abbey was Greggs 100%, as there making a new one in the old Next Building by WH Smiths now.

from 1962 street directory
Before Iceland it was T J Hughes before that Owen Owen
Hope this jogs a few memories

I think I need a few tips on closeup photography

Very interesting, Derek, with all the interest in what shops were where. Haven't you got a macro mode on your camera, for close-ups? If not, better to be further back & be in focus, then enlarge it in software. I'd be really interested to see more from that directory; all of Grange Rd., both sides if you could take the trouble.

interesting Grange road now and then

now and then looking from Pyramids towards Farmfoods

See wot you mean about the trees derek

Its to get rid of the depressing urban look, quite effective really!