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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Bordesley Station: gwrbg2706

Photograph believed to be taken between 1936 and 1939 showing the redundant High Street entrance to the original Bordesley station

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'Harding’ss 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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