Coventry Permanent Economic Building Society
circa 1930
Vintage Photograph – Coventry Permanent Economic Building Society, Hampton in Arden (c. 1930)
This striking interwar image captures the façade of the Coventry Permanent Economic Building Society’s branch in Hampton in Arden, Solihull. The half‑timbered, Tudor‑revival frontage—with its patterned brickwork, leaded-glass bay window and steeply pitched roof—is characteristic of suburban commercial architecture in the late 1920s and early 1930s, designed to evoke stability and tradition.
In an era when building societies were at the heart of Britain’s “ownership revolution,” institutions like this provided savings accounts and mortgage loans to working‑ and middle‑class families for the first time. By 1930, the Coventry Permanent had become one of the Midlands’ leading societies, reflecting both the growth of commuter suburbs around Birmingham and the increasing appetite for home ownership between the World Wars.
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This striking interwar image captures the façade of the Coventry Permanent Economic Building Society’s branch in Hampton in Arden, Solihull. The half‑timbered, Tudor‑revival frontage—with its patterned brickwork, leaded-glass bay window and steeply pitched roof—is characteristic of suburban commercial architecture in the late 1920s and early 1930s, designed to evoke stability and tradition.
In an era when building societies were at the heart of Britain’s “ownership revolution,” institutions like this provided savings accounts and mortgage loans to working‑ and middle‑class families for the first time. By 1930, the Coventry Permanent had become one of the Midlands’ leading societies, reflecting both the growth of commuter suburbs around Birmingham and the increasing appetite for home ownership between the World Wars.
Share Your Own Vintage Finds!
Do you possess sepia‑toned postcards, family snaps or architectural gems from bygone Britain? Upload your photographs to OldPik.com and help enrich our collective memory of the interwar years—one image at a time.
Contributed by OldPik on January 7, 2024
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