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pixrobin
136 of 984  Sun 31st Aug 2014 11:09pm  
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Mike H
London Ontario, Canada
137 of 984  Mon 1st Sep 2014 2:04am  

On 31st Aug 2014 10:06pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said: Hi Mike H Wave Your quote "but it left the city for Green Lane from outside of the temporary shops". Perfect for Lyons cafe. Cheers Thumbs up Cheers Thumbs up
The good old days, eh, Philip.. Smile
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Mike H
London Ontario, Canada
138 of 984  Mon 1st Sep 2014 2:26am  

On 30th Aug 2014 10:52pm, flapdoodle said: They certainly weren't there in the late 1980s when I first came to Coventry.
It's no wonder that you and I have very different views re Coventry. By the late 80's, the party was well over. Saturday mornings in the 50's, 60's and early 70's, it was like everybody descended on the centre. You could almost hear the people in their homes all say in unison "Going off to town now", the noise of knives and forks hitting plates in Woolies Cafeteria could be heard in Bayley Lane. There were times when I don't doubt that somebody said "Gotta get a bigger Precinct"

You missed all of the fun, arriving as late as you did. I actually suspect that you might have hated it because it was so crowded and full of traffic.

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Old Lincolnian
139 of 984  Sun 7th Sep 2014 6:38pm  
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flapdoodle
Coventry
140 of 984  Mon 8th Sep 2014 1:17am  

On 1st Sep 2014 2:26am, Mike H said: It's no wonder that you and I have very different views re Coventry. By the late 80's, the party was well over....
Nope, I love city centres that are busy and full of crowds. Cities that aren't like that have something wrong with them.
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Mike H
London Ontario, Canada
141 of 984  Mon 8th Sep 2014 11:34am  

You should have arrived earlier then, when Coventry was enjoying its hey-days, Ring Road and all.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
142 of 984  Tue 9th Sep 2014 1:02pm  

Not a very clear picture but the name Salmon & Gluckstein can be seen on the shop on the left.
Local History and Heritage - Broadgate
Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
143 of 984  Tue 9th Sep 2014 4:16pm  

A great picture Anne, I wonder what they are looking at Oh my
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dutchman
Spon End
144 of 984  Tue 9th Sep 2014 4:37pm  

There's a procession of some kind from the council house to Broadgate with people in ceremonial costume and the whole pavement cordoned off.
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Ace
Nuneaton
145 of 984  Wed 10th Sep 2014 6:08pm  

EXCELLENT docu on Mods v Rockers the other day on BBC4 featured the generation of mods & rockers being interviewed, and I noticed a 'blink-and-you-will-miss-it' moment of a picture that features Broadgate in the background! Shows people being filmed from the balcony at the top of Broadgate (when Ernest Jones jewellers now stands) Sorry for quality of picture, had to snap it quickly, and apologies if the picture has been shown elsewhere on this forum!
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
146 of 984  Thu 11th Sep 2014 3:09am  

On 9th Sep 2014 4:37pm, dutchman said: There's a procession of some kind from the council house to Broadgate with people in ceremonial costume and the whole pavement cordoned off.
Thanks Dutchman, yes I can see now they are on the pavement, and not out on the road, perhaps a council procession, pity the shop awnings aren't up to keep them dry. Avaguen Wave
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flapdoodle
Coventry
147 of 984  Sat 13th Sep 2014 6:16pm  

On 8th Sep 2014 11:34am, Mike H said: You should have arrived earlier then, when Coventry was enjoying its hey-days, Ring Road and all.
I was born in the 1970s... My Dad did go on a school trip to Coventry during the 1950s apparently, to look at the new shopping precinct and an uncle of mine worked on the Owen Owen building. (I'm not sure if he meant pre-war or post-war.) By the time I arrived it was a truly depressing place - as were many British cities back then, including Birmingham. However, some have moved on and are barely recognisable from then. Coventry has struggled due to its lack of diverse skills in the population and the 20th century reliance on a single industry. My fellow students couldn't really wait to finish and leave. However, the Poly students were far more tolerant than those at Warwick (I did a year there) who were almost afraid of Coventry - I never saw any trouble as a student (Others did) but you did have to go 'out' of the city for gigs and shopping. Although my group of friends were quite happy to chill out in the Hand and Heart with the local folks rather than the student union... Having said that, I had a great time at the Poly, but even stuff from those days has gone - and with it some of the character and characters that made the place a bit more interesting than now. The 'public realm improvements' without subsequent new businesses to liven the place have made the centre feel somewhat dull and empty. Almost as if it's been tarted up and waiting for people to arrive...
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Roger T
Torksey
148 of 984  Sat 13th Sep 2014 7:27pm  

On 27th Jun 2011 5:36pm, Midland Red said: Devlin's was the newspaper "shop" at the Martins Bank end, next to Lyons
Could the newsvendor have been Rabin, I had a feeling he took over from Devlin, I also remember seeing Rabins down near where Pool Meadow used to be, bottom of Trinity Street, but in that row of new shops that runs on new wide road that ran parallel to Pool Meadow. Reading further on wasn`t Thorntons opposite the Hippodrome? or was there more than one. The Estate Agents that inhabited the corner by Devlins, was Golden Key run by Mike Benfield (Approx 1967 onwards?), perhaps it was even the Lyons shop he inhabited?
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mcsporran
Coventry & Cebu
149 of 984  Fri 5th Dec 2014 9:11pm  

I haven't seen this image posted before, which I believe shows the subway under Trinity St to Owen Owen under construction. I'm intrigued about how the buses got from the stop in the foreground to the far side? There's a few other interesting images on the same site.
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Dougie
Wigan
150 of 984  Sat 20th Dec 2014 10:32am  

Two video's of the Christmas Lights here and here PS. After looking at the video's they don't look half as good as seeing them for real yourself Sad
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