Quadriga
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Thu 13th Jun 2013 5:17pm
On 1st May 2012 7:47pm, uatec said:
If anybody can provide ANY more information about Glenn's at all I would be very grateful.
My mum owned Glenn's sweet shop in Hales Street in the late 50's/early 60's. I believe it was originally owned by Glenn's sweet manufacturers. She's nearly 92 and still alive. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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Thu 13th Jun 2013 6:19pm
Hello & welcome to our forum, Quadriga,
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morgana
the secret garden
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Fri 14th Jun 2013 12:39pm
This is one of Coventry's most successful business histories, where I used to work in the late 60/70s, Shakleton Road, Coventry, offices.
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Midland Red
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Fri 14th Jun 2013 12:47pm
Quite correct, morgana - pity few people around the UK realise that the "City" is Coventry |
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morgana
the secret garden
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Fri 14th Jun 2013 12:57pm
I do realise that, Midland Red |
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LongfordLad
Toronto
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Fri 9th May 2014 1:39am
On 22nd Oct 2011 5:59pm, dutchman said:
This is the view from outside the Town Wall Tavern looking towards their main entrance in Bond Street. By the time I lived there the factory had grown to absorb all of the neighbouring houses and the lorry loading bay moved to Ryley Street just out of picture to the right. Bond's Hospital is clearly visible at the end of the street.
Was this photograph printed in reverse? Or was it that this photograph truly represented what existed then? As I remember Lant's it was smaller building, encountered - after leaving the Town Wall Tavern - somewhat to the right of that building, rather than to the left, as the photograph displays. Perhaps, by the late 50s - when I was a member of the Young Stagers at the Belgrade Theatre - Lant's pop joint was a shadow of its former self. But what represented itself as Lant's in the 1950s emphatically would have been to the right when exiting the TWT. (The TWT - 1950s/1960s - had a "snug" that defied all other pub's claim to having a snug, but - in the main - folks went into the saloon for a drink, rather than the bar - though both were exemplary.) |
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dutchman
Spon End
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Fri 9th May 2014 2:17am
It was definitely to the left LongfordLad as this 1953 planning application I posted earlier in the thread shows. Glenn's was to the right and the space on the corner of Riley Street was never built-on and finished its days as a used car lot:
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TonyS
Coventry
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Fri 9th May 2014 9:45am
On 9th May 2014 1:39am, LongfordLad said:
...Was this photograph printed in reverse?
If it had been you wouldn't have been able to read the sign over the shop |
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Dreamtime
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Fri 9th May 2014 12:51pm
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LongfordLad
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Sat 10th May 2014 11:18pm
On 9th May 2014 2:17am, dutchman said:
It was definitely to the left LongfordLad as this 1953 planning application I posted earlier in the thread shows. Glenn's was to the right and the space on the corner of Riley Street was never built-on and finished its days as a used car lot:
'Nuff said, and - as ever- thank you. |
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TonyS
Coventry
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Thu 15th May 2014 6:39pm
On 9th May 2014 1:39am, LongfordLad said:
Was this photograph printed in reverse?...
Ahhh, you mean it should have looked like this?
Dutchmans original can be viewed here
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Thu 15th May 2014 6:54pm
Ooh! What's gone on there, then????? |
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mcsporran
Coventry & Cebu
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Thu 15th May 2014 9:10pm
A very clever transposition, but the steering wheel is now on the wrong side, also the OFFICE sign on the windows has been omitted. |
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TonyS
Coventry
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Thu 15th May 2014 9:43pm
I wondered who would notice the "OFFICE" sign on the windows - unfortunately, with the graduation effect of the shadows, I hadn't got time to fix that, so I thought it better to remove them
However, full brownie points for the steering wheel - I forgot that!!!
Maybe this truck had dual-controls? |
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Thu 15th May 2014 9:51pm
Excellent, Tony, nevertheless |
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