mcsporran
Coventry & Cebu |
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Mon 7th Nov 2016 5:10pm
A nice colour image of Burtons, Astleys, Manfields and H Samuel in 1939. |
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Dreamtime |
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Tue 8th Nov 2016 1:29am
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Wearethemods
Aberdeenshire |
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Tue 8th Nov 2016 9:51am
It's exactly the spot where the same year (1939) the IRA bomb was left outside Astley's Paint Shop. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Wed 23rd Nov 2016 11:51am
I think there must be quite a few pictures of this view, this one from "Coventry under fire"
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Wed 23rd Nov 2016 12:23pm
This is from the other side of the road. It looks as there are openings that side, is it possible there was a subway under the road?
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Wed 23rd Nov 2016 3:53pm
Perhaps this is the answer, from an article in the Coventry Standard 1942
"Time was when another row of buildings occupied the centre of Broadgate, many of the massive stone basements of which remain concealed, although the clearance of the present debris is revealing much"
Also in 1944 2 ladies fell into the basement of a bombed building
This shot from Britain from above shows the opening from the same side as Neils picture, if you look carefully it looks as if there are doors on it.
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PeterB
Mount Nod |
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Wed 23rd Nov 2016 8:02pm
If I'm reading the photos correctly it looks like the subway is on the line of the erstwhile subway under Broadgate between Owen Owen/Primark and Holy Trinity church.
Peter.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Wed 23rd Nov 2016 8:26pm
Great work Anne I'm sure there are still a few gems hidden away buried beneath the streets. |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Wed 23rd Nov 2016 9:12pm
On 23rd Nov 2016 8:02pm, PeterB said:
If I'm reading the photos correctly it looks like the subway is on the line of the erstwhile subway under Broadgate between Owen Owen/Primark and Holy Trinity church.
Afraid not Peter, that one was about fifty yards further north.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
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Tue 29th Nov 2016 2:19pm
Dutchman. Interesting, but I don't remember any tunnel or subway, and in June 1944 I stood right in the middle of Neil's photo to watch the armada of planes, and I always thought the temporary shops were there then, they would have been right over that tunnel, don't you think? |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Tue 29th Nov 2016 2:55pm
The temporary shops hadn't been built in 1944 Kaga, there was a still a big hole in the ground on that side. I'm amazed no one fell in it!
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
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Tue 29th Nov 2016 3:48pm
dutchman, thanks for the reply, I wasn't sure, as I was missing from Coventry end of 1944 to 1948. I really have no idea when they did go up, but felt they must have been one of the earliest buildings to appear in Broadgate? |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Tue 29th Nov 2016 5:00pm
1948 I think Kaga, at the same time the island was constructed.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
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Wed 30th Nov 2016 11:14am
dutchman, yes the island was completed for the unveiling in 1949, but Osmiroid's picture of the market hall confuses me too. I thought that was gone before 1955 and the top part of the new precinct open by then? |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Wed 30th Nov 2016 1:23pm
British Home Stores opened on the site of the former City Arcade/Barracks Market entrance in 1955 so it had certainly gone by then.
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