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Wearethemods
Aberdeenshire
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31 of 65  Wed 9th Apr 2014 1:24pm  

Roystockdill stated in the previous post : The following words that appear on the Mirror Pix reference were MINE! These words must have been lifted by the Mirror from the Evening Telegraph splash front page because I distinctly remember writing them! That's a co-incidence. Morgana posted just the other day under the topic 'Quirky facts about Coventry' a link about fashions. One of the Telegraph photos shows a teenager who I knew, yet other shots taken on the same day of him and others in 1969 are all available to view on line but shadowed with the Mirror Pix logo ! Maybe the CET sold them to the Mirror along with narrative pertaining to various City events.
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dutchman
Spon End
32 of 65  Wed 9th Apr 2014 3:26pm  

Trinity-Mirror bought the Midland Newspaper Group which includes the Coventry Evening Telegraph many years ago and thus owns all its archives. The current Coventry Telegraph is a regional edition of the Daily Mirror.
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Wearethemods
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33 of 65  Thu 10th Apr 2014 7:56am  
Off-topic / chat  

NormK
bulkington
34 of 65  Thu 10th Apr 2014 8:24am  

Just remembered, we took the top floor off that building way back probably late 60s, and they replaced it with the effort you can see today... Thumbs up
Milly rules

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LongfordLad
Toronto
35 of 65  Mon 14th Apr 2014 8:29pm  

Ah, but that was a fire! I was working then at Bristol-Siddeley (Parkside was - I believe - the plant's location name) on a street that ran parallel to the Ring Road. Consequently, the view of the inferno (for inferno is no exaggeration) was, from the slightly-elevated Parkside, and given the additional aid of being on the second floor of the company's main office building, quite staggering. The smoke was dense, but apparently finding a way to its dispersion seemingly well below us, and off to the east. Whether there was an political fall-out from Civil Defence's decision to store highly-combustible materials (cardboard coffins, blankets and such) in this location I cannot recall. There certainly should have been, whatever the actual sparking of the fire, but then where else was available in the city at that time? Unlike the heavy snowfall in Buffalo, New York state, in 1978 or thereabouts, no buttons/badges were issued by the municipality that boasted "I survived", but survive I did (at quite a remove) , survive we did (ditto), though Dutchman's experience was at ground zero, and his survival is the more remarkable for that. This Forum's capacity to surprise, to remind me of things long forgotten, continues to thrill me.
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born and bred
nuneaton
36 of 65  Sun 30th Nov 2014 6:14pm  

A friend of mine asked for help to organise old photo slides. Among them are many photos of the ongoing fire in June 1960's at the Morris factory and of the construction of the coventry ringway. Her father had a chemist shop in the city and was a very keen photographer who took every opportunity to snap whenever he could. My friend was going to bin the slides but as a historian myself l feel that someone would appreciate them. Can someone tell me where we can donate the please. Kind Regards. Carol Collins.
carol collins

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morgana
the secret garden
37 of 65  Sun 30th Nov 2014 9:37pm  

Welcome born and bred .
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TonyS
Coventry
38 of 65  Sun 30th Nov 2014 10:30pm  

Yes, welcome to our forum. May I suggest our very own webmaster; Rob. I'm sure he would provide an excellent home for them and maybe scan them and include them in a gallery on this site? Thumbs up
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Robthu
Coventry
39 of 65  Mon 1st Dec 2014 6:49am  

Yes! I second that. They will get a wider appreciative audience on here than squirreled away at the Herbert, never to be seen again. Let everybody see them. Derek.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
40 of 65  Mon 1st Dec 2014 7:06am  

Thirded! Looking forward to seeing the Ring Road ones.............
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mickw
nuneaton
41 of 65  Mon 1st Dec 2014 7:18am  

Ditto to that.... Thumbs up
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dutchman
Spon End
42 of 65  Mon 1st Dec 2014 11:26pm  

I'm curious to know which chemist it was as there was one almost opposite the Old Morris who would have had a grandstand view of both fires as well as of the Gosford Street Flyover being constructed?
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jvb
Kenilworth
43 of 65  Thu 4th Dec 2014 12:04am  

Any slides or negatives ought to go to an archive such as the Herbert eventually, as only they will have the correct storage conditions. Old film deteriorates if not kept at exactly the right temperature and humidity. If you have boxes of photos or slides you may wish to mark on them "to be donated to the Herbert (or the Warwickshire County Archives)". I know that they will be very grateful for such donations. Never bin anything - future generations will be grateful for you saving the items. Can I suggest that anyone who has old photos scans them and puts a copy on the Geograph website (www.geograph.org.uk) . Of all photo websites, only Geograph is archived for the future (by the British Library UK Web Archive project). Also on Geograph it is possible to accurately locate the photos for the benefit of future generations.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
44 of 65  Tue 16th Dec 2014 10:17pm  

Hi all, Firstly, many thanks to you all for showing such faith in me! I've finally made time to scan these slides, and I've processed the ones of the fire at the "Old Morris" building in Gosford Street, which was the Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance by the time it caught alight in 1964. I've given more details with the first slide, which you can all view in the Forum Gallery. I'll try not to be too far behind with the reconstruction slides, among which are some wonderful "never to be seen again" views of Coventry - places now buried beneath our city's last four decades of progress. Some of the views will also require your help to identify some places....
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morgana
the secret garden
45 of 65  Tue 16th Dec 2014 10:27pm  

Thank you Rob brilliant and thanks for the effort you've made to show us these and thanks to the donor.
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