Co-operative Premises, Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham

CO-OPERATIVE PREMISES, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM - New buildings in Coventry-road, Small Heath, have been erected for the Birmingham Co-operative Society. The building is three stories in height, and has cost, with fittings, some £12,000. There are four shops, a showroom on the first floor, and an assembly-room on the top floor. The last-named it is proposed to utilise for entertainments to members of the society, lectures to disseminate the principles of co-operation, and to let out for other purposes. The room will seat 700 people. The whole establishment is lighted by electricity, generated on the premises. The architect is Mr F E L  Harris, Manchester, and the contractor is Mr. T. Rowbotham, Birmingham. [Builder 15 March 1902 page 272]

Possibly Small Heath No 2 Branch opened February 1902, closed and demolished in 1960s