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Fri 17th Jun 2016 3:47pm
On 12th Jun 2016 5:44pm, Norman Conquest said:
The girl you mention was Barbara Slevin she lived in the first terraced house in Matlock Rd.
Thanks for confirming that the corner shop sold electrical goods.
I never doubted that it was, at one time, an electrical shop - just queried that it was Comet!!! |
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Norman Conquest
Allesley
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Sat 18th Jun 2016 12:22pm
Thanks for reply MR.
Comet didn't occupy that shop for very long as they moved to a larger double fronted shop on corner of next street. Brooklin St or some similar name.
I know nothing more about the shop except that it became a chip shop about 1954.
I had left Coventry by that time as I was receiving training at the Coal Board workshops at Ansley Common two days a week and Newdigates for the rest of the week.
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Sat 18th Jun 2016 12:26pm
Brooklyn Road, NormanC - great for a view of Cash's across the canal |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Sat 18th Jun 2016 3:56pm
My wife insists in 63 there was an eng' factory on the corner of Matlock Road and she worked there as a secretary for a short time, so the tele shop must have been next door to the factory. I can't remember what was there. |
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Norman Conquest
Allesley
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Sun 19th Jun 2016 11:27am
Kaga. Sorry but there never was an engineering factory corner of Matlock Rd. On the corner was chip shop with its own back garden then a couple of semi detached. Then came the engineering works.
On the other side was Courtaulds car park.
Take a look at the picture above. That factory extended right through to Brooklyn Rd. No idea what the set up is now.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Mon 20th Jun 2016 10:15am
Norman C, I believe you, the picture shows it, but hey I'm a coward so if my wife says it was on the corner, then it's on the corner, and I'm out of here on this one. |
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Norman Conquest
Allesley
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Mon 20th Jun 2016 12:26pm
I remember my eldest son going into that works when he had managed to escape from the back garden.
When recaptured I asked him what they had said to him in the factory, he replied that they had told him to "**** off". He was about three at the time.
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Dreamtime
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Tue 21st Jun 2016 2:05am
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Sat 2nd Jul 2016 2:30pm
Courtesy of The Coventry I Remember FB page
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Midland Red
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Sat 2nd Jul 2016 2:47pm
Plenty of mentions of Riddy's around post 72 of this thread |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Sat 2nd Jul 2016 2:53pm
Thanks Cliff - just wasn't sure if that photo had been on here before. |
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dutchman
Spon End
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Thu 21st Jul 2016 3:59pm
So whereabouts in Coventry was this Lyons store in 1967:
"On This Day 19th June 1967"
Also if the picture was taken on 19th June 1967, why does it say 1970 on the bicycle?
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Thu 21st Jul 2016 4:45pm
Because for some reason it was manufactured from 1965!
Triang |
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dutchman
Spon End
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Thu 21st Jul 2016 5:00pm
Thanks Anne ![Thumbs up Thumbs up](../resource/emoticons/Thumbs_up.gif)
That just leaves the location of the store to be revealed.
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mickw
nuneaton
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Fri 22nd Jul 2016 10:02am
That photo brings back memories, a Moulton 1970 was my first new bike. I can't recall it being badged as a Triang though. |
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