314 Foxhall Road
We are indebted to Graham Lingley, otherwise known as Racing Toast on Flickr, who also has an interest in Ipswich public signs.
Visible behind the scaffolding and partially painted-over is part of a cartouche outline and:
2008 images courtesy Racing Toast
The images were taken on August 26, 2008 in Orwell Road and, no doubt have been obliterated. Orwell Road, for those who haven't come across it, runs from the bottom of Stanley Avenue near Derby Road station up to Foxhall Road.
[UPDATE 15.12.2013: "Dear Borin, I was looking at your site and spotted Orwell Road, as we lived there I had to find where Jones the Butchers was... Good old Google, it was on the corner of Foxhall Road, town side... the top of the roof and the window looks the same as well as the back of the house and the bush, I have a 1966 Kellys Directory that states this was a Green Grocers (314 Foxhall Road, Garrett, R.H. Fruiterer & Florist) and my wife confirmed that it was a Green Grocers, we moved from Orwell Road in '72. Hope this is useful Gordon (Pugh)." We're convinced; a recent photograph is shown below and thanks to Gordon for the sleuthing. See below for more Kelly's entries.]
2015 image
By 2015 an extension covers the lower part of the end wall. This is 314 Foxhall Road, once a shop, now a house. The painted render on the side wall may one day be removed to show the sign once more. Such is the irony of painted wall signs.
Proprietors of 314 Foxhall Road
Kelly’s Directory entries
1894. Cole Charles (Mozart Villas) – here is Orwell Road – [no numbering].
1906. Wesley Horace, butcher.
1909 to 1928. Wright, Bert, butcher [from 1921 he is called ‘Bertie’].
1929. Rush C.W., butcher.
1930. Deeks, butcher.
1931 to 1933. Jones Jn., butcher [who had the sign painted which must have read: J. JONES, FAMILY BUTCHER, COOKED MEATS'].
1934 to 1936. Radford E., butcher.
1937 to 1954. Addison Rt Chas., boot repr.
1956 to 62-63. Crane Leonard J. boot repr.
1966 to 1975. Garrett Ronald H. fruiterer & florist. [name of the trade varies to ‘florist’ and by the 1975 the occupier was just shown as Garrett Ronald H.]
Oddly, ‘Rola Celestions Ltd, loudpseaker mfrs.’ are shown also shown as residents at no. 314 Foxhall Road in 1969 and 1970; by the 1972 volume of Kelly’s, Rola Celestions are shown at no. 344. Today, this is the number of a recently built houses close to the entrance to Celestion Drive which, of course, was named after the loudspeaker manufacturers which once shared the site with Bull Motors (a firm which grew out of E.R. & F. Turner foundry).
See also the 'Woottons Cure For Corns' sign still existing (but hidden) in the nearby Camden Road.
Also a similar lost painted trade sign, now covered up on the side wall of a former shop out here in the suburbs of Ipswich, on the corner of Darwin Road and Wellesley Road: 'British Flag Stores'.
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We are indebted to Graham Lingley, otherwise known as Racing Toast on Flickr, who also has an interest in Ipswich public signs.
Visible behind the scaffolding and partially painted-over is part of a cartouche outline and:
'J.JO...
FAMILY B...
COOKED ...
AN[?]'
FAMILY B...
COOKED ...
AN[?]'
followed by the tops of some
letters.
It might be 'J. Jones, Family Butcher, Cooked Meats and ...' or similar. Does anyone know of this location/business?
It might be 'J. Jones, Family Butcher, Cooked Meats and ...' or similar. Does anyone know of this location/business?
2008 images courtesy Racing ToastThe images were taken on August 26, 2008 in Orwell Road and, no doubt have been obliterated. Orwell Road, for those who haven't come across it, runs from the bottom of Stanley Avenue near Derby Road station up to Foxhall Road.
[UPDATE 15.12.2013: "Dear Borin, I was looking at your site and spotted Orwell Road, as we lived there I had to find where Jones the Butchers was... Good old Google, it was on the corner of Foxhall Road, town side... the top of the roof and the window looks the same as well as the back of the house and the bush, I have a 1966 Kellys Directory that states this was a Green Grocers (314 Foxhall Road, Garrett, R.H. Fruiterer & Florist) and my wife confirmed that it was a Green Grocers, we moved from Orwell Road in '72. Hope this is useful Gordon (Pugh)." We're convinced; a recent photograph is shown below and thanks to Gordon for the sleuthing. See below for more Kelly's entries.]
2015 imageBy 2015 an extension covers the lower part of the end wall. This is 314 Foxhall Road, once a shop, now a house. The painted render on the side wall may one day be removed to show the sign once more. Such is the irony of painted wall signs.
Proprietors of 314 Foxhall Road
Kelly’s Directory entries
1894. Cole Charles (Mozart Villas) – here is Orwell Road – [no numbering].
1906. Wesley Horace, butcher.
1909 to 1928. Wright, Bert, butcher [from 1921 he is called ‘Bertie’].
1929. Rush C.W., butcher.
1930. Deeks, butcher.
1931 to 1933. Jones Jn., butcher [who had the sign painted which must have read: J. JONES, FAMILY BUTCHER, COOKED MEATS'].
1934 to 1936. Radford E., butcher.
1937 to 1954. Addison Rt Chas., boot repr.
1956 to 62-63. Crane Leonard J. boot repr.
1966 to 1975. Garrett Ronald H. fruiterer & florist. [name of the trade varies to ‘florist’ and by the 1975 the occupier was just shown as Garrett Ronald H.]
Oddly, ‘Rola Celestions Ltd, loudpseaker mfrs.’ are shown also shown as residents at no. 314 Foxhall Road in 1969 and 1970; by the 1972 volume of Kelly’s, Rola Celestions are shown at no. 344. Today, this is the number of a recently built houses close to the entrance to Celestion Drive which, of course, was named after the loudspeaker manufacturers which once shared the site with Bull Motors (a firm which grew out of E.R. & F. Turner foundry).
See also the 'Woottons Cure For Corns' sign still existing (but hidden) in the nearby Camden Road.
Also a similar lost painted trade sign, now covered up on the side wall of a former shop out here in the suburbs of Ipswich, on the corner of Darwin Road and Wellesley Road: 'British Flag Stores'.
©2004 Copyright throughout the Ipswich Historic Lettering site: Borin Van Loon
No reproduction of text or images without express written permission