creteskyblue
crete
|
586 of 978
Mon 26th Nov 2018 6:58am
At a cost of £2,300,000. Mmm!!!
Regards.
Enjoy life,remember we walk this way but once.
|
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
|
587 of 978
Mon 26th Nov 2018 9:17am
Yes Rob, I thought it was the angle. Martin's Bank was on the corner of Pepper Lane, and I believe there was a little alley way between the cafe and the National Bank. Hertford Street was built in 1812 from a little cart-track, wide I think because of water courses - there had been two ponds in Greyfriars Green and a moat round Cheylesmore Manor fed by springs. The overflow under the two park streets into the Sherbourne at Gosford Street.
The National was built in 1928. I have no idea about the bank under Broadgate House? Remind me someone, please.
The ironic thing about the photo in post 650 was that a bomb hit the road just yards from the pillars and everyone joked that if it had hit the bank money would have flowed through the windows - five years on and I witnessed such a scene, money blown through Barclays Bank windows.
You won't see Fennells advertised today, but it was a leading shop in Cov. in those days. |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
|
588 of 978
Mon 26th Nov 2018 2:46pm
Midland Red,
656, the white building on the left, Samuels without clock? |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Midland Red
|
589 of 978
Mon 26th Nov 2018 3:47pm
It would become Samuels, Kaga, but in the image it is H G Tett, Ironmongers (no.6 Broadgate) |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
NeilsYard
Coventry
|
590 of 978
Tue 27th Nov 2018 11:25am
Some good post-war detail here -
|
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
heathite
Coventry
|
591 of 978
Tue 27th Nov 2018 11:50am
Gates opened for truck, so . . .
|
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
|
592 of 978
Thu 29th Nov 2018 3:18pm
On 18th Nov 2018 3:56pm, Prof said:
Accession announcement 1952 or Coronation 1953?
As Owen Owen wasn't opened until 1954, and also looking closer at some of the clothing in this picture, could this possibly be the 1977 Silver Jubilee being celebrated? I recall a lot of fuss being made about that, that year. |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
|
593 of 978
Thu 29th Nov 2018 4:26pm
Sorry Rob, but would the photo be that far out? The bonnets look fifties? |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
|
594 of 978
Thu 29th Nov 2018 5:57pm
Were there any earlier jubilees celebrated then? Maybe 10 years in 1963? All we can be certain about is that it can't have been the Coronation or anything earlier. |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Midland Red
|
595 of 978
Thu 29th Nov 2018 6:36pm
Surely not for 10 years? (which would have been 1962!)
Could it be the Cathedral Consecration? |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Not Local
Bedworth
|
596 of 978
Thu 29th Nov 2018 6:45pm
The Queen visited Coventry on 27 July 1977 as part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations. The photo shows people wearing hats and coats so probably not July. I seem to recall that the weather was dry and warm for the 1977 visit. Could it have been for the consecration of the cathedral in 1962? |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
|
597 of 978
Thu 29th Nov 2018 9:25pm
On 29th Nov 2018 6:36pm, Midland Red said:
Surely not for 10 years? (which would have been 1962!)
Could it be the Cathedral Consecration?
Oh yes of course, I was thinking 10 years after the Coronation!
And.... I've just looked through my 1962 Telegraph special edition, and the Consecration looks very likely actually. There's a photo showing that part of Broadgate (but sadly misses out the "Long may she reign" slogan, which would've clinched it) and the street lamps and general layout are a good match. I'd risk saying you're right about the Consecration. |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Prof
Gloucester
|
598 of 978
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 3:07pm
Military Band in Broadgate
|
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Prof
Gloucester
|
599 of 978
Sun 2nd Dec 2018 3:22pm
Preview now the bank has gone!
|
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|
Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
|
600 of 978
Mon 3rd Dec 2018 12:02pm
Prof,
I believe your photo 664 was the Coronation, 2 June 1953. The other photo has the wrong date to my mind - hope it did not upset you.
The photo 670 gives a clear view of how much Broadgate was set back as far as Martins Bank, before the war the bank was third building in High St, and the bomb crater would have been in the road just this side of the band that leads to Hertford St.
The above photo shows clearly the width of the pathway between the Leofric and Owen Owen - how could they put an hotel with entrance where cars and taxis could not get near?
Before the war there was a small cafe on the corner of Broadgate and Smithford St inside Burton's - when they built the Precinct they put the menswear on that corner and the cafe above.
Sitting in the cafe on a settee two young women, sat beside me, I had seen in there before. We were chatting when the cleaning lady stopped to speak to the women. She asked one if the other was her mother - the girl dropped her coffee and burst into tears, the coffee went all over my pants and shoes.
I was nowhere near as embarrassed as the poor girl. |
Memories and Nostalgia -
Broadgate
|