Burges and Cross Cheaping

A useful picture Rob, thanks. I've only got pictures with a very bad angle on that building and had thought the leaded beam at the bottom was another building. The arrangement of roof timbers was one of the most common in Coventry and is called a raking queen strut as far as I can gather.

If anyone has access to David McGrory's book - A History of Coventry, this image is uncannily similar to the image on page 124.

Oh yes, I see what you mean Heathite - very similar construction indeed. I hadn't remembered that image as I'd not looked through that book for quite some time. Must've been a common design locally back then.

A History of Coventry is one of the books I haven't got yet.

This is an unusual aspect of Cross Cheaping - you usually only get shots further south 'up' towards Broadgate without being able to see down Burges. Link to www.alamy.com

I think this is Cross Cheaping as is that The Talbot Inn sign on the right? Link to www.alamy.com

It was more than just a sign NeilsYard, that part of the building stuck out over the pavement:

(At the left side)

Great pictures everyone, that's the part of this Forum I do enjoy, a big THANK YOU.

Osmiroid, I see on your photo an advert for Sapphire Jewellers, 16 or 26 The Burges. Does anyone know if that was the only jewellers in The Burges in 1960.

Not something I know - one for the trade directory experts

The advert is definitely for number 26. The listing does show a number 26, but as a Gentlemen's Outfittes (?)

Heathite's list above confirm Gilbert's, the shop with the famous clock

Thank you for that Heathite. It must have been Gilberts where I bought an engagement ring in 1960. I may be wrong but I think Gilberts was towards the bottom end of The Burges on the right hand side as you walked down the slope from Cross Cheaping.