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Millne's Cycle & Radio Stores

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This scan looks like the inside of Tyred and Exhausted's garage going off the steel construction and the glass panels in the roof.

Does anyone know different?

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On 11/06/2021 at 21:18, Jammy said:

This scan looks like the inside of Tyred and Exhausted's garage going off the steel construction and the glass panels in the roof.

Does anyone know different?

You aren't too far off the mark, as both building's roofs could well have been constructed by the same contractor (maybe Bill Scott Engineering?), and they are pretty close to one another.

It's the Millne Bike Factory behind the former Turk's Head Hotel in the Market Place (later to become Coop - Millne House, before recent demolition).  Looks like the snow collapsed the roof.  Date some winter in the 1930s I'd guess, but it could be the early 1940s as they were still making bikes for the Army, as well as Bailey Bridge parts up until around 1945.  The roof would have been demolished by the Coop when they rebuilt the rear of the Millne department store.  After WWII, the building became The Terrier Plate Works, thought there was still some remaining evidence of bike manufacture there in the early 1950s.

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