NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Tue 7th Jan 2020 9:51am
Thanks to Bridie Shields and the Coventrians FB page - petrol queues for the Motor Mart garage on London Road. Long queues are forming in a bid by motorists to beat the 6pm deadline, after which a 5d increase would be applied. 22nd November 1968.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Tue 7th Jan 2020 9:51am
And another - queues more than 100 yards long build up outside one Coventry garage as motorists fill up before tomorrow's price increases. Gulson Garage, Binley Road, Coventry, West Midlands. 19th December 1974.
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Prof
Gloucester |
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Tue 7th Jan 2020 12:12pm
Newsomes had a showroom in Corporation Street, my late wife's aunt was a secretary there (30s-40s I think) |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Tue 7th Jan 2020 2:44pm
I remember their later showrooms on the A45 by the island (roundabout for purists) opposite the Styvechale pub. It was a local landmark, and everyone use to refer to the island as Newsome's Island.
It caused amusement in class when, in French lessons, nous sommes cropped up. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Wed 8th Jan 2020 9:03am
I hadn't realised they were there Slim. What year would that have been? Guessing it was on the spot now taken by the Peugeot dealer - anyone got an image? |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Wed 8th Jan 2020 9:32am
Yes, it's now the Peugeot garage. If memory serves me correctly, they were there about 1970, maybe earlier. They also had main workshops in Job's Lane. |
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bohica
coventry |
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Wed 8th Jan 2020 10:01am
I think they were 'Henlys' for quite a long time in the 80s/90s |
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Wed 8th Jan 2020 10:04am
Thank you, that was the name I was struggling to remember. They were indeed Henleys, but everyone still called it Newsomes (island or garage). Old habits die hard. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Wed 8th Jan 2020 10:37am
Yes I remember it there as Henly's. Just found this - an 'F' plate would make it 1967.
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Old Lincolnian
Coventry |
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Wed 8th Jan 2020 1:36pm
It's still a local landmark and is usually referred to nowadays as Henly's Roundabout |
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vitessesteve
Newark UK |
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Thu 9th Jan 2020 9:12am
Bobby Gould, Coventry City centre forward takes delivery of a Triumph Spitfire 3 from Mr. D. Harty of S. H. Newsome and Co. Ltd. This image is from the Standard Triumph Review November 1967 and featured in my blog post about S H Newsome of Coventry here. |
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Midland Red
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Thu 9th Jan 2020 9:25am
Brill, Steve! Thank you! |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Thu 9th Jan 2020 9:37am
Nice one, Steve - it just appeared under a Google search for me, so hope you didn't mind me adding. Lucky chaps, them footballers! |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Thu 16th Jan 2020 5:00pm
Highway Garage - now the Peugeot dealer?
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Fri 24th Apr 2020 5:01pm
Swan Lane Garage, which has been mentioned on here a few times, 1965. I think this is Ford Street at the junction with Priory Street.
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