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Slim
Another Coventry kid
121 of 254  Mon 3rd Oct 2016 4:44pm  

Hi Dutchman, very good pic. It's interesting to note that the sash window upstairs seems to be fully open. I wonder why?! See my earlier comments about what the builders said. Blush
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Helen F
Warrington
122 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 2:13am  

Good maps Heathite. It's interesting how little it changed from 1750 to 1807. It was beginning to change rapidly by 1850 and was very different by 1890.
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Midland Red

123 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 7:26am  

My Spon End photos here Thumbs up
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
124 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 8:25am  

Some of the bricks from the old Plaza cinema are underneath the garden store/workshop at the end of my parents' garden in Canley Road. How did they get there, I hear you all ask? Well, I'll tell you. When my father retired, one of his first projects was to build quite a large single-brick building across the end of the back garden. I helped him build it. Before the concrete base was poured into the footings, we needed a load of hard-core (by hard-core is meant rubble, to remove any confusion). It was expensive to buy it officially, so early one Saturday morning, I said "Leave it to me, Dad". I rode down to the Plaza, which was being demolished, on my 650cc BSA, and bribed the workmen. Cash speaks louder than words, so several cubic yards of rubble was put into the back of a lorry, I left my bike on site, and got into the passenger seat and directed the driver to the rear of our house, and the rubble was dropped into place. Then we went back and I got my bike. The whole job was done in about an hour. I paid the two chaps four green ones. I daresay that wouldn't happen today: "Phwoor, we can't do that, 'elf 'n safety!". It's ironic that in earlier days, my parents used to visit the Plaza when they were "courting". Little did they know that one day some of that building would be in their back garden!
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Old Lincolnian
Coventry
125 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 10:52am  

On 3rd Oct 2016 2:22pm, dutchman said: I know from directory listings that the shop changed hands some time in the 1960s but can't remember if it was still a TV repair shop when I moved to the area in 1967.
I moved down to Coventry in 1972 and it was still Jacksons Radio then. I can't remember whether it was still there in 1974 when I moved into Dover Street though.
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Midland Red

126 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 11:06am  

OL - they're still listed at 101 Spon End in the 1975 Telephone Directory, but not in the 1976 book Thumbs up
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
127 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 11:17am  

On 4th Oct 2016 7:26am, Midland Red said: My Spon End photos here Thumbs up
Love the photos MR, they took me back to the Broom, Four Pounds Ave. and the Plaza, what a dump. Sat in my first double seat at that place - say no more ! Wink
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Midland Red

128 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 11:24am  

Thumbs up
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Old Lincolnian
Coventry
129 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 11:45am  

On 4th Oct 2016 11:06am, Midland Red said: OL - they're still listed at 101 Spon End in the 1975 Telephone Directory, but not in the 1976 book Thumbs up
Thanks MR, I do have a vague memory of going into the shop when we moved but couldn't place when Cheers
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NeilsYard
Coventry
130 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 12:21pm  

Great stories Slim and Dream Big grin
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
131 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 2:42pm  

I would put the painted words a little earlier, late fifties, maybe there is a lot more background to this story. Pendleton had already stated he wanted the town to be shut down at ten o'clock. No extensions of licencing hours, or late night restaurants with licences. The town had a lot of unrest because of the 'indian' (the name of the day) influx. It was felt he was encouraging more, I could say more on this but may be it's in bad taste today. In Barras Lane in 1949, a guy turned a house into 5 bedsits, each with separate kitchen and bathroom. I rented one of those flats for more than ten years, so was close to Spon End and the city centre. Remember seeing a couple of shows by the Earlsdon players, fairs on Hearsall Common etc. Yes, it was a nice place to live in the fifties.
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Dreamtime
132 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 2:47pm  
Off-topic / chat  

pixrobin
Canley
133 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 5:00pm  

Looking back, I feel the entrance to the Plaza was very strange. I suppose when I was young it was like climbing wide stairs to enter a space ship.
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
134 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 5:07pm  

I remember a few cinemas like that, Pix (in my day, perhaps not in yours) Lol
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dutchman
Spon End
135 of 254  Tue 4th Oct 2016 5:48pm  

On 4th Oct 2016 5:00pm, pixrobin said: Looking back, I feel the entrance to the Plaza was very strange. I suppose when I was young it was like climbing wide stairs to enter a space ship.
It was done so that the seats at the back would be higher and have a clear view of the screen. Smile
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