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Helen F
Warrington
76 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 12:29am  

Hi Prof In your photo, the Palace Yard is on the very left. Then there was a printer/publisher. In the Troughton sketch, the printer's is the flat fronted building on the left. The Palace Yard is very shy and as far as I know only appears in a Bunney watercolour. It's Palladian in style (which looks Georgian to me) but quite shabby by the time Bunney recorded it. It had a big grey sign for Doherty Motor Components Co. over the gateway. The gateway had a big wooden gate with a wicket door in it. The hours I've spent trying to match up the buildings in that sketch with the map. Roll eyes
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
77 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 12:35pm  

Midland Red, Three years my boy was a pro-boxer, not one photograph, '84 European games, hundreds of stars, not one photograph. Join the queue when casting the blame.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
78 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 1:54pm  

Great find Prof! Thumbs up Where was that one from?
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Prof
Gloucester
79 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 4:01pm  

Helen, I have the Bunney book, which does not help for lack of index, but I can see no watercolour of the Earl St entrance to Palace Yard or even the more familiar views. It is not in the Earl St section. Can you help?
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
80 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 4:20pm  

Such a shame this picture isn't clearer but it might be better if you could see the original when the record office is open again. It is from the CET 18th May 1977. it might be worth trying to follow up what happened to Mr Birchley's sketch book !
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Helen F
Warrington
81 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 4:25pm  

Hi Prof, as part of my Coventry endeavours I took photos of a lot of the full Bunney collection (far, far more than the ones in the book). I almost missed it. I'll try and mock up a version of how it looked. Maybe the pictures will appear next year?
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Prof
Gloucester
82 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 4:27pm  

Troughton drawing of Earl St just found on PinInterest.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
83 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 4:36pm  

Got a link Prof? That Troughton sketch in post#75 does not look much like the picture in post#74? Must have been a few changes?
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NeilsYard
Coventry
84 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 4:42pm  

Hope you don't mind Prof but as it was so good I've blown that one up - such a rare view of that southern frontage -
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Prof
Gloucester
85 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 5:06pm  

Of course Neil, I'm delighted. Found in the Library pics no less. Suppose it is the building on the far left of the photo? I think the Technical Institute must be there too, the three storey one with 11 windows, a door and a very long roof to the rear?
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Prof
Gloucester
86 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 5:20pm  

I think it will appear in Coventry Past and Passing in the Troughton sketches there. I will look up my copy when I can find it! Alas it is the Lines Collection and not Troughton Drawings.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
87 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 5:29pm  

Brill! Not sure how I've missed that one before unless our leader has been adding images - well done both anyway!! It made my day!
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Helen F
Warrington
88 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 5:46pm  

Link to hints about the Palace Yard images
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moriarty
allesley park coventry
89 of 192  Tue 21st Apr 2020 9:38pm  

The archway in post 63 is the entrance to the former technical school, the line of properties is described in post 80, from right to left as Church Book Shop, Old Palace Yard, Dragoon cycle shop, entrance to former technical school.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
90 of 192  Wed 22nd Apr 2020 11:05am  

Awesome work Helen / all. So if that archway was to the Technical Institute, what is, as Prof asks, "the three storey one with 11 windows, a door and a very long roof to the rear?"
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