NormK
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Tue 10th Oct 2017 12:25pm
Isn't that the garage that closed because of ground contamination?
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matchle55
Coventry
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Tue 10th Oct 2017 1:51pm
I'm not sure about that Norm, as a boy living in Templar Ave I knew the area well in the 50s and 60s. Dad used to go there to fill up and I seem to recall the old boy telling dad that he was closing as Tile Hill Lane was being widened.
I have no idea about the date but it must have been late 1950s. |
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Heathite
Coventry
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Tue 10th Oct 2017 4:38pm
Hi, here's some info that seems to support the idea.
C Hudson was there from at least 1935.
![](../images/Heathite/2_C_Hudson_1935.jpg)
Then in 1960 he is no longer on Tile Hill Lane. See the images for the other years.
![](../images/Heathite/3_Tile_Hill_Lane_map_pre_decimal.jpg)
Although he wasn't listed on Tile Hill Lane during 1960, he was still living at number 3 Ash Priors Close. |
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Midland Red
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Tue 10th Oct 2017 4:51pm
Heathite - he died in 1978, still resident at 3 Ash Priors Close |
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Heathite
Coventry
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Tue 10th Oct 2017 5:23pm
Thank you MR.
The map is pre decimal money, that's all I know about it.
Pity they don't put a publish date on their maps.
To me it's a glaring error and quite out of character for
that type of business. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sun 14th Jan 2018 11:17am
Our son bought a 1977 book "The Rover Story" in a National Trust Book Shop last week. Lots of pictures, but I thought this view of the Rover Garage interesting. I don't think I have seen it before and most pictures are looking up the hill towards Broadgate. It is a 1920's picture and the car parked outside is a "Clegg-ype" Rover 14hp model.
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Mr Blue Sky
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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Sun 14th Jan 2018 11:01pm
Did the Rover Garage many years later become Parkside Garage where I bought my Austin Healey Sprite from in 1967? |
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Midland Red
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Mon 15th Jan 2018 8:01am
No, sir - Parkside Garage was at the bottom of Warwick Road - between the the railway goods yard and Queens Road
![](https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/memories/wark-rd-eaton-rd-c1965.jpg)
In 1967, the Rover Garage site had become Benleys, succeeding AD Foulkes |
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Heathite
Coventry
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Mon 15th Jan 2018 10:45am
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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Mon 15th Jan 2018 11:12am
On 14th Jan 2018 11:01pm, Mr Blue Sky said:
Did the Rover Garage many years later become Parkside Garage where I bought my Austin Healey Sprite from in 1967?
Hello Mr Blue Sky, ![Wave Wave](../resource/emoticons/Wave.gif)
The Parkside proprietor was Mr Davis. In my growing up years (fifties and sixties) I saw him many times when walking into town from school. Also a point of contact was that my mum supplied the workwear uniforms & overalls for the business from her shop in White Street. Her last motor was from there too, in 1958, a Wolseley 6/80. |
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ghlee
NSW Australia
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Sun 21st Jan 2018 3:53am
A childhood mate of mine took an apprenticeship in the motorcycle department of Brandish's in the late 1950s. The repair and maintenance workshop was situated on Whitefriars Lane just a few yards along from the Whitefriars Gate.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Mon 19th Mar 2018 3:16am
As this please was mentioned on this thread - not sure about 'Goulson' Road though
![](../images/NeilsYard/gardnersgarage.jpg) |
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herberts lad
Exhall
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Mon 19th Mar 2018 8:57pm
I used to buy my caps here for my Lone Ranger cap gun, served by an immaculate man in a pristine white cow gown. |
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jagfel
leicester
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 7:56pm
Does anyone remember working at Coventry Garage, Holyhead Road, during the 60s and 70s? If so would be pleased to hear from them. I was a mechanic there way back then and wondered if they still lived in Cov.
Would like to chat to them. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Fri 30th Nov 2018 9:42am
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