dutchman
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Sun 18th Mar 2012 2:19pm
On 17th Mar 2012 6:51am, scrutiny said:
Hi and thank you Dutchman for the info on "spring brook". Anne is right about the position of the newsagents. I went to school with the son of the people that ran the shop,it was either Thorpe or Gibbard, their parents both ran newsagents but i think it was Gibbards,lol, for a better memory. He used to work in the shop on Saturdays, that was half his weekend gone.
I've checked with planning records.
The shop was offically a tobacconist's known as "Cooks" or "Cookes". It was owned by "Orr Enterprises" of Albany Road who also owned quite a few cinemas and the shops nearest to them in both Coventry and Morecambe. I suspect they also owned the Opera House at one time. They preferred the name Hales Street Stores for the shop which unofficial.
The open newsagent's frontage was a 'temporary' arrangement agreed with the council in 1962 on the understanding that the entire shop would be demolished in 1965. For various reasons this never happened and the frontage was retained for many more years. The tobacco section was at the back of the shop reached by a separate entrance on the extreme right of the frontage.
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anne
coventry
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Mon 19th Mar 2012 9:08pm
Hi Dutchman! I'm confused ![Oh my Oh my](../resource/emoticons/Oh_my.gif)
So is the shop you are discussing the one surviving as Godiva News or, as you suspected, a temporary one?
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dutchman
Spon End
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Mon 19th Mar 2012 10:01pm
On 19th Mar 2012 9:08pm, anne said:
So is the shop you are discussing the one surviving as Godiva News or, as you suspected, a temporary one?
Yes, it's the same shop Anne, only the open front was 'temporary'.
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anne
coventry
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Mon 19th Mar 2012 10:32pm
Thankyou Dutchman! |
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butty
Sutton Coldfield
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Mon 26th Mar 2012 5:18pm
Hi GVB,
Kelly Electric
I wonder if that person once owned a place on the corner of Cope Street and Priory Street, opposite the new cathedral?
I worked there in 1957 as a 15 year old. I worked there for one whole week,
enough said.
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GVB
Longford
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Wed 4th Apr 2012 10:23am
On 26th Mar 2012 5:18pm, butty said:
Hi GVB,
I wonder if that person once owned a place on the corner of Cope Street and Priory Street, opposite the new cathedral?
I worked there in 1957 as a 15 year old. I worked there for one whole week,
enough said.
Hi Butty, I don't know whether this is the same chap or not but if it is like you I didn't work for him for long |
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Adrian
UK
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Tue 29th May 2012 11:12am
A thread worth reviving.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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Tue 29th May 2012 12:08pm
Hi again, ![Wave Wave](../resource/emoticons/Wave.gif)
I can remember the shop, but cannot think of where it was located. ![Wave Wave](../resource/emoticons/Wave.gif) Was it at the back of the gas show-rooms? Or Foleshill Rd? |
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Adrian
UK
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Tue 29th May 2012 12:12pm
Walsgrave Road, Gosford Green, where the Sky Blue Way is now
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Midland Red
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Tue 29th May 2012 12:12pm
On 29th May 2012 12:08pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Hi again, ![Wave Wave](../resource/emoticons/Wave.gif)
I can remember the shop, but cannot think of where it was located. ![Wave Wave](../resource/emoticons/Wave.gif) Was it at the back of the gas show-rooms? Or Foleshill Rd?
Looks like Walsgrave Road to me, just past Paynes Lane ? ? ? ? |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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Tue 29th May 2012 12:19pm
Hi & thank you all! |
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Beesman
Cornwall
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Tue 29th May 2012 2:22pm
On 29th May 2012 12:12pm, Midland Red said:
Looks like Walsgrave Road to me, just past Paynes Lane ? ? ? ?
Spot on MR. Riddy's was just past the Walsgrave Road/Paynes Lane junction, next door to the pub, on the left hand side as you were walking towards Ball Hill.
I bought an ex Civil Defence greatcoat there in 1973 for the princely sum of £3.00!! An absolute bargain. I think it weighed more than I did!! |
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Adrian
UK
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Tue 29th May 2012 2:35pm
We used to get our school uniforms from Riddys. It was no fun being the only Japanese sniper in the class. |
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Tricia
Bedworth
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Tue 29th May 2012 3:39pm
Dutchman will remember, it was next to our school - St Marys. |
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dutchman
Spon End
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Tue 29th May 2012 3:52pm
Oddly enough Tricia I didn't remember it at all until shown a photo of it quite recently and even then I didn't remember the name, only that it sold army surplus.
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