NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Thu 18th Apr 2024 3:14pm
Another cracker from CliffB and possibly another Ebay sale -
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Mick Strong
Coventry |
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Sun 21st Apr 2024 8:35am
Great pic Neil
Just look at those lights on top of the gate posts !! Mick Strong
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Tue 18th Jun 2024 3:57pm
As they've been mentioned on this thread. Does anyone have any images of this dealer? I don't think they were there long (I can't see them listed in the directories) -
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heathite
Coventry |
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Tue 18th Jun 2024 4:12pm
Hi Neil et al, I have a 1972 Directory which I haven't shared with you, I don't have the energy to digitise it.
But. . . it does have an entry for Rickards, Philip, Barras Heath Service Station, Mercer Ave., Tel. Coventry 52236.
This helps with the timing but no images.
There has been a long standing car sales and petrol station near to the junction of Coventry Street (before Mercer Avenue becomes Clay Lane), was the car sales Stuart Price?
I know a chap called Entwistle had the petrol station for a while.
Link https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/titanic-feat-of-model-making-3124569
I think this is the chap, no mention of Mercer Avenue, but I know he had links with the Potters Green business, a chap named Dave Cagey was prominent in the business too. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Tue 18th Jun 2024 4:23pm
They were advertising in Union Street in 1961 to 1966. They are also advertising on London Road. |
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Andermt
Coventry |
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Mon 8th Jul 2024 10:36am
A lot of discussion on the Holyhead Road garages but haven't seen a mention of Godfrey Hall BMW which is a bit newer.
I moved to Coventry in 1989 and remember walking past it into town in the era Godfrey Hall, the owner, used to race in the BTCC, and I seem to remember the race cars were prepared in a small garage on the site, with the doors being opened on hot days so you could see the cars. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Mon 8th Jul 2024 11:17am
Hi Andermt. 128 Holyhead Road is still a BMW dealership, It was taken over by Syntner. |
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ChrisW
Perth, Western Australia |
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Fri 30th Aug 2024 4:06am
On 26th Oct 2023 4:05pm, NeilsYard said:
I don't remember this one at all but I think it was there in to the 70s. The site later became Homebase (although that in itself has now closed!)
C&E Motors were operating there in late 1970; my dad bought his new HC Viva from them at that time. He'd previously bought a new HA Viva from W. Brandish, in Whitefriar's Street, which was where I bought my new HB Viva SL (GKV697D) in November 1966. |
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Fri 30th Aug 2024 2:43pm
Hi ChrisW, welcome to the forum. |
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matchle55
Coventry |
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Fri 30th Aug 2024 8:16pm
C & E were Cross and Ellis who, pre war, were coachbuilders supplying bodies to all the major manufacturers in the 20s and 30s. They had premises in Stoke row, I believe. |
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stpauls
norfolk |
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Sat 21st Sep 2024 12:32am
On 23rd Nov 2012 8:11am, Vtopian said:
Just for completeness, our local garages were Stoke Park service station (Barry Whitmore's) on the Binley Road by the Bull's Head pub, and opposite, where the supermarket is now, there was a large garage with a big workshop at the back (cannot dredge up the name of the place just now, maybe it will come to me later). Further along the Binley Road (between Crescent Ave and Uxbridge Ave) there was a small garage (a few doors down from the Biggin Hall), again, the name escapes me, but I remember that between that garage and Pollard's cycle shop, you could get practically any sort of bulb or battery, however obscure, that your torch/cycle lamp/toy car etc required!
My sister Jeanne worked in their offices in the 60's. I have a keyfob somewhere ?? - 'Stoke Park Service Station'
tillyt
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Changy
Evesham |
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Sun 27th Oct 2024 11:00am
Anyone remember the old Henley's garage on the corner of Broad Lane and Jobs lane? Brings me back to my younger days. Think it closed down in about 1980 and was abandoned for a long time before new houses got built. Question |
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands |
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Sun 27th Oct 2024 11:08am
Was it Alvis back in the day when I went to Woodlands in the mid 60s? Question |
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Sun 27th Oct 2024 4:25pm
Hi Changy, welcome to the forum |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Mon 28th Oct 2024 2:02pm
On 27th Oct 2024 11:00am, Changy said:
Anyone remember the old Henley's garage on the corner of Broad Lane and Jobs lane? Brings me back to my younger days. Think it closed down in about 1980 and was abandoned for a long time before new houses got built.
I remember it well. My dad had an old Rover P5 in which I learnt to drive, so we went there occasionally. I think there was a parts dept.
At my dad's work, a colleague had a big car (probably BLMC) that had some odd gearbox fault. She took it to Henleys who, back in those days when a pound was worth something, said "phooarr, we'd have to take the gearbox out and strip it down before we even knew what was wrong, that's a big job etc....". They quoted her something like £120.
As she was about to drive away, a mechanic approached her, and handed her a piece of paper with his name and address on it. He said "bring it my my house on Sunday morning and I'll do it for £10 cash". Which he did within an hour.
He knew it was a common fault. Turns out you merely lift the carpet inside the car, remove an inspection cover on the side of the gearbox, then replace a small nylon part which was prone to wear.
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