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Annewiggy
Tamworth
466 of 513  Sun 31st Oct 2021 3:49pm  

Helen. So the buildings demolished in 1882 would have been where the car park is now. The jewellers which is the first building on that side is number 9. Is that the original building or has it been replaced with one from somewhere else?
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Helen F
Warrington
467 of 513  Sun 31st Oct 2021 8:06pm  

Yes, the old buildings were on the land under the car park which was the start of Queen Victoria Road. The mystery location of the bombing scene was the remains of the new Plough at number 9 and was replaced with one of the buildings from Much Park Street.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
468 of 513  Sun 31st Oct 2021 8:43pm  

I tried to find out what happened to no's 1 to 5 but have no luck so far.
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Helen F
Warrington
469 of 513  Sun 31st Oct 2021 9:30pm  

Some of them survived the war and gained one storey shop extensions at the front where they'd had low walled gardens. The survivors were 1a, 1, 2a, 2, 3, ruin and an empty plot. BFA Alas Old Maps is no more or I'd try and work out when they were demolished but it might have been when they created the medieval zone. Looking at National Library of Scotland it looks like they went in the mid 60s.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
470 of 513  Mon 1st Nov 2021 5:12pm  

That sounds right, Helen, as T Edwards, a furniture store at number 1 and 3, were having a demolition disposal sale in September 1960.
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Prof
Gloucester
471 of 513  Mon 9th May 2022 7:19pm  

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Prof
Gloucester
472 of 513  Wed 25th May 2022 8:28pm  

Actually it was the shop in Chaingang's photo above, first on left entering Spon St. Newsagent I think called Goddard. The owner had lost an arm (in WW1?) and he could pick up newspaper in the shop.fold it tuck it under his good arm and hand to the customer. I saw it many times as my Grandad Kendall bought a paper from that shop.
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Prof
Gloucester
473 of 513  Wed 25th May 2022 8:33pm  

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NeilsYard
Coventry
474 of 513  Mon 16th Jan 2023 10:17am  

This one was posted on the Visit Historic Coventry FB page and appears to be from a book, so apols I cannot credit the source, but I'd not see this view of Tembling's before. We've had a few shots of it earlier as one of the buildings saved and moved to now No.1.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
475 of 513  Tue 17th Jan 2023 10:58am  

Gray Forster on 'Coventry We Used to Know' FB page posted this shot recently. It shows what was No.65 Spon Street - the old Co-op which was next door to the William IV pub after it had been demolished. Interesting to see the older internals to the buildings that still stood. The row that was demolished previously posted by Dutchman in the pubs thread.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
476 of 513  Wed 18th Jan 2023 5:22pm  

Gray has done it again with this real cracker which is new to me. I think it's Spon Street looking east towards Fleet Street with the junction with Queen Victoria Road on the right. If the photographer turned to the right, they would have seen the Plough Hotel.
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Midland Red

477 of 513  Wed 18th Jan 2023 5:45pm  

Like that one, Neil. Is that Conduit Yard just visible far left?
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Mick Strong
Coventry
478 of 513  Wed 18th Jan 2023 5:59pm  

Great pic, Neil. Is that a huge barbers' pole on that building on the left?
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Helen F
Warrington
479 of 513  Wed 18th Jan 2023 6:44pm  

The view should appear on Coventry Digital eventually but I can't find it right now. The building on the left is on the corner of Conduit Yard and in other pictures is shown as Baker's Temperance Hotel. They served coffee and tea on the ground floor. The city wall ran under part of the building on the left hand side of the next block.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
480 of 513  Sat 18th Feb 2023 8:24pm  

I think this is the same section but later as in post #477.
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