Positively Pottering
East Midlands
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Sat 8th Aug 2020 6:45pm
On 8th Aug 2020 2:00pm, Midland Red said:
There are several references to the Church Book Shop earlier in this thread
Thanks MR, I trawled the index for any previous posts but never thought to look in Shops of Yore! |
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Prof
Gloucester
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Sat 8th Aug 2020 9:22pm
Church Book shop was close or next to the Geisha café on the same side of Hertford St. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Sun 9th Aug 2020 9:45am
Believe that the Church Book shop was responsible for most of the books sold to Sunday schools in Coventry, including The English Hymnal. |
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Slim
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Sun 23rd Aug 2020 3:08pm
On 29th Sep 2011 2:00am, MisterD-Di said:
I recall him with his Benley's sandwich boards too. Benley's was a cheap shop in Warwick Row where the Litten Tree is now. My father took me there to see Santa, probably in about 1960ish. There was Happy, dressed as Santa! I remember pulling a parcel out of the lucky dip, and he said 'Don't have that, it's rubbish!' and told me to pick a different one. Priceless!
I always remember him for his white gloves, and stories of him causing chaos attempting to direct the traffic in Broadgate.
I remember the sandwich boards in Coventry advertising Benleys, which certainly was a cheap-jack shop. They once advertised in the CET "Rubber gloves only 1d per pair". I wonder what the quality was like! I daresay it was a loss leader to get people into the store. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sun 23rd Aug 2020 5:47pm
What a memory, Slim. 1966.
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
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Sun 23rd Aug 2020 6:28pm
Excellent advert, Anne, and it proves the words of the old Max Bygraves song; "Popeye the sailor and the fifty bob tailor".
One of the jokey insults at our school was, when discussing fathers' jobs, "I know where your dad works, I've seen him sweeping up at Benleys!" |
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Mr Blue Sky
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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Sat 5th Sep 2020 11:19pm
When did Dyers store on the Bell Green Road start trading and when did they close?
I lived about 150 mts from them. There was Mr and Mrs Dyer and John Dyer their son and I think they had a daughter. In the early fifties there was a lady working there who said to me one day, "I know your mum and that when I was a baby, she used take me out in my pram".
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TaurusSteve
Warwickshire
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 1:30pm
Hi, my nan had a shop on Foleshill Road in the 1950's. It was a wool & baby linen shop. If anyone has any more information or maybe a photo, it would be great! Thanks. |
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heathite
Coventry
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 2:55pm
Hi, could this be her? The image is from a 1955 directory.
She isn't listed in the 1953 or the 1960
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Helen F
Warrington
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 5:21pm
Hi Steve, welcome to the forum. ![Wave Wave](../resource/emoticons/Wave.gif)
This might take a while to get an answer. As it's more contemporary than many of our topics it might get more response on Facebook, especially if there is a Foleshill site but people pop in here all the time from a variety of locations so it's worth waiting. We have people who might have been new parents or knitters in the 50s. I take it that the shop Heathite found wasn't the right one? The numbering hasn't changed as far as I can see.
More modern images turn up on ebay so that might throw up something. There are a few books with post cards that include Foleshill but they might be too old for what you're looking for.
Heathite, any idea what was at number 498?
I'll leave this topic up for a few days and then move it to the Foleshill topic if you don't mind. That might elicit a response when this slips down the page. |
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TaurusSteve
Warwickshire
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 5:31pm
Helen thanks! |
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heathite
Coventry
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 6:16pm
A name would be helpful.
Here it is, Helen with both numbers displayed, 404 & 498.
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heathite
Coventry
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 6:39pm
Found these in the 1957-8 directory.
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TaurusSteve
Warwickshire
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 6:42pm
Pauline Dale or Burton. |
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Helen F
Warrington
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Sun 13th Sep 2020 6:42pm
I don't know what we'd do without you, Heathite ![Big grin Big grin](../resource/emoticons/Big_grin.gif)
Admittedly those buildings would come and go as shops but at some point it became harder to change from one to the other. Terence Woolley doesn't sound like a shop, even one selling wool.
Ahh, there we go, it was 496 instead. |
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