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mickw
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Tue 29th Oct 2013 1:12am
Hi all. Just found this topic, very interesting and memorable too. Does anyone remember the Cum Bak cake shop opposite the Freemasons in Harnall Lane and its owner Sam Baker. Pie, peas and chips 1s/10d (less than 10p) it was a lot better than school dinners at Freddies, it used to be full of us at dinner times, much to the annoyance of the lorry drivers and workmen who used to dine there. Does anyone know what happened to Sam Baker? ![]() |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Tue 29th Oct 2013 11:19am
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Fri 1st Nov 2013 4:12am
Really enjoying the photos of this fascinating group of buildings ![]() |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Fri 1st Nov 2013 5:22am
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Fri 1st Nov 2013 5:40am
I've found some more fantastic photos of the Triangle plus some other 19th century Workshop images from this early 70's study that has been put online in PDF form:
Factory Workshops in Coventry
Photos start on Page 28 - some brilliant images. Rights to the owner which also includes some excellent history within his research.
Sadly demolition commenced in September 1972 and completed early '73 ![]() |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Fri 1st Nov 2013 5:54am
And further detective work - interesting reading from the Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society Journal here, with a history of Eli Green himself (from page 5). |
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NormK
bulkington |
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Fri 1st Nov 2013 10:14am
Here is a shot of the Triangle with a JCB nibbling away at it.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Fri 1st Nov 2013 10:56pm
This 1972 shot gives a good insight into the location compared to today's view - the point where Berry Street becomes King William Street is where the west facade of the triangle lay on Brook Street.
Today you can only see a pathway along the side of the Baptist Church to indicate where Brook Street was. This is the section in the photo below - the football pitch is in today's grounds of St Mary and St Benedict's School. Good to see the old pylons at Highfield Road too ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Sat 2nd Nov 2013 10:50am
Sorry Neil I don't know when these pictures were taken. Some of the pictures Mr Beasley used he has got from other places but the ones he has taken round Hillfields seem to have been taken about the same time. The cars seem to be of the same era so I am sure someone could date them approximately. You asked on the Eli Green page where the picture was taken from. I have this one of Cox Street which is obviously taken from the block of flats on the right of your picture of Weston Street so I think the Eli Green one was taken from the same flats. Mr Beasley could well have lived in that area before he moved to Bonds Hospital. This picture was obviously taken a little while before the Weston Street one.
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dutchman
Spon End Thread starter
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Sat 2nd Nov 2013 2:05pm
Fascinating picture Anne
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scrutiny
coventry |
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Sat 2nd Nov 2013 3:07pm
Very true, Dutchman. ![]() |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Sat 2nd Nov 2013 6:09pm
Sorry, don't know the area much. Can only go on the comments on the pictures. |
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Primrose
USA |
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Sat 2nd Nov 2013 9:52pm
In the mid-sixties, I remember twin boys at Freddies Juniors (Michael and John?) whose parents ran the Cum Bak Cafe. I don't remember their surname, only that they were younger than I was, had very dark hair, and that they were twins, a much rarer thing back then.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Sun 3rd Nov 2013 4:46pm
Wellington Street 1896
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Frances Hodgson
Greater London |
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Wed 19th Mar 2014 4:23pm
On 17th Jul 2012 3:52pm, scrutiny said:
Hi Les, knowing the Rev Jones, he would have been more concerned about your concern for your wife. He was a very charitable man. I have tried to search about him but cannot find anything. I know he went to the Philippines as a missionary, came back and toured Britain giving lectures. Then nothing?
The Rev Eric W Jones went to Melanesia (Fiji, Solomon Islands etc). That's more north east of Australia. He married (after leaving St Peter's). His wife (Muriel Jones) wrote a book "Married to Melanesia" about their life there.
He returned to the Coventry Diocese and was at St Bartholomew's Binley. He finally retired in 1987 from the North Ferncumbe Group of Parishes and died on 10 May 2009. (scrutiny - not 16 May as I wrote elsewhere)![]() |
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