{"id":243,"date":"2019-11-21T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.redditchheritage.org.uk\/?p=243"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:48:20","slug":"alcester-street-sandwich-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Alcester Street Sandwich Bar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><em><strong>&nbsp;David Hatcher contacted us asking&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For many years from 1984 onwards, I worked at Redditch Police Station. At lunchtimes many of us would stroll up to the parade of shops opposite what is now the library. I do not know the name of the original road. It is of course pedestrianised now.<br \/>\nThere was a sandwich bar (no seating) and we would queue up sometimes out through the door, for hot rolls. The most popular was a baguette filled with a pile of bacon and always wrapped in aluminium foil. Every one was freshly cooked and you could choose a sauce, tomato or brown etc. Can anyone tell me the name of the shop? Sadly the shop is long gone. I seem to remember it was the name of the owner, a well built jolly fellow always smiling and wearing a white apron!<br \/>\n&#8216;Lens&#8217; maybe? A picture of the shopfront would be a bonus \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;David Hatcher<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember this Sandwich Bar personally but&nbsp;I assume the shops David is talking about are those from Peakman Street down to where the new buildings are, this would be Alcester Street,&nbsp; assuming that Church Green East ends at Peakman Street which is not 100% clear on the town centre maps.<\/p>\n<p>Can you help with a name and possibly a picture?<\/p>\n<p>Derek Coombes<\/p>\n<p>RLHS Archivist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;David Hatcher contacted us asking&#8230;&#8230; For many years from 1984 onwards, I worked at Redditch Police Station. At lunchtimes many of us would stroll up to the parade of shops opposite what is now the library. I do not know the name of the original road. It is of course pedestrianised now. There was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enquiry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}