Norman Conquest
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Fri 21st Nov 2014 12:51pm
As soon as I clicked the button I realised what a stupid question it was. Norman
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Kaga simpson
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Fri 21st Nov 2014 3:59pm
Norm K, Would it have been a newsreel full length of the fight, did they do that back then
Like the Opera cinema did of Randy Turpin.
Now you have jogged my mind, I remember about five of my uncles having a noisy friendly argument one day about a big fight they were going to see, I was about seven at the time.
Believe Carnera was a giant of a man, in those days, and a pro wrestler, my god that was seventy years ago
Where has it gone.
P.S I went to the opera to see the Randy Turpin fight, and sitting in front of me was Randy himself, all alone. |
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Kaga simpson
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Fri 21st Nov 2014 5:58pm
Norman both,
I'm confused, I thought the Alex in the photo was half way along Ford Street. and it was open in 1960 because my wife and I decided to get married after seeing a film in there, Love is a many splendoured thing |
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Dreamtime
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Sat 22nd Nov 2014 12:22am
You are catching us up Kaga, sorry but that's life. I too remember the Alexandra and always envisaged it on the corner. Not sure the name of that road though (up the side) but wasn't there a dancing studio situated on the other side of the road. I went there a few times just to make an idiot of myself in my teens.
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dutchman
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Sat 22nd Nov 2014 12:47am
Corner of Cox Street and Ford Street.
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Dreamtime
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Sun 23rd Nov 2014 1:51am
That road there used to run straight into Pool Meadow didn't it? Always remember the Alex and the cafe there, always smokey inside with the bus drivers, crew and their ciggies. |
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Norman Conquest
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Sun 23rd Nov 2014 10:34am
Although I lived in Birmingham I was almost on the A45. I had a part time driving job with Goodwin, Foster, Brown. If they were a driver short and I was on the right shift I would do a bit of driving for them.
Yes, Cox St did run to Pool Meadow and yes I remember the smokey cafe
I met my wife to be at Goodwins so have rather fond memories of the place.
I don't know if you are aware of this but the site of the Alex' is earmarked for the construction of a block of student flats with retail premises on the ground floor. Bearing in mind the capabilities of Coventry planning department, I expect it to resemble the same boring corn flakes box shape that most Coventry central post war buildings have...... Norman
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Kaga simpson
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Sun 23rd Nov 2014 5:09pm
Dreamtime, well the smoke as gone for you know, you live in the cleanest city on the planet.
Norman Conquest, 'Goodwins' was that the flour mill people?
The last time I was in Coventry to look around, the market place was the thing that stood out for me, wish we had one half as good.
best regards.
p.s just wrote about the fire station, pht its disappeared. |
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Norman Conquest
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Mon 24th Nov 2014 9:57am
Goodwins was once a flour mill but I knew it as wholesale grocers...View of Goodwins is from Wheatly St corner....Norman
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Dreamtime
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Mon 24th Nov 2014 10:52am
On 23rd Nov 2014 5:09pm, Kaga simpson said:
Dreamtime, Well the smoke as gone for you know, you live in the cleanest city on the planet
Not sure about that Kaga, the bush fire season has started, and it is going to be a long hot summer.
Ooops back to the cinema topic. |
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Gas Centre
Perth Scotland
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Tue 30th Dec 2014 3:04pm
On 24th Nov 2011 4:34pm, scrutiny said:
Reading the posts of late I would like to add, the person who took over the Crown cinema and revamped it into the Paris cinema also took on the Standard cinema and called it the Godiva, I got to know quite well. Cannot for the life of me remember his name. The amount of times me and my wife were greeted by him and given coffee with free entrance to the cinema became a bit of an embarrassment. I know it was genuine gesture by him as we were married and working two jobs each to save money to buy our first house. The reason he closed down the Godiva, as he stated, was because he could no longer get the right quality family films. Now there's a person who sticks by his guns.
I think the guy's name was Neville Dent, I have feeling he owned the hotel in Allesley Village as well.
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johnwright
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Tue 30th Dec 2014 5:31pm
If I remember correctly the manager's name was Mr Powell when I once went there with my then girlfriend. He was previously the manager of the Ritz cinema top of Windmill Road / Dovedale Avenue. I know this because he once threw me out of the Ritz when I was younger for being obnoxious, he had every right to, I was thrown from the top of the steps to the bottom and deserved it. From then on I learned to respect him and we then got on very well.
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Gas Centre
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Tue 30th Dec 2014 5:45pm
I think Dent owned the cinema, maybe he had a manager, I may have got his Christian name wrong.
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Cordelia9
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Tue 30th Dec 2014 11:40pm
My father who lived in Coventry all his life wrote the following about the Globe Picture Theatre:
"Now the outstanding film - or rather the day - which I remember so well was Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid". The manager hit upon a very good idea and advertised that the best impersonation of Charlie Chaplin would win 1st Prize, in those days about 10 shillings - roughly a week's wages.The day was fine and the message got around. The Saturday morning film started at 10 o'clock. By 8 o'clock Primrose Hill Street was full of juvenile Charlie Chaplins. They came from miles around swaggering about with walking sticks, bowler hats, bit boots, short jackets and trousers very crumpled and jumbled round the legs, not to forget the moustaches
Well it was a fine stampede when the doors opened and we raced down that passage, Charlies and civilians alike. The noise and the laughter was deafening, but it was worse inside - Charlies running up and down three aisles, lights going off, coming on again, hoorays and cheers, whistling and clapping, sword fights with canes, bowlers knocked off, lost moustaches. I wish all could have been there for the laugh of a lifetime. Who won I do not know, I seem to remember he was a stout little boy..." |
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scrutiny
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Wed 31st Dec 2014 8:11am
I was going to add something but then realised i was having a "senior moment". |
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