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pixrobin
Canley |
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Tue 4th Oct 2016 7:45pm
Sorry. What I meant to say was that from across the street you saw only stairs - no box office. The box office was at the top of the stairs.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Tue 4th Oct 2016 7:55pm
On 4th Oct 2016 11:17am, Dreamtime said:
Love the photos MR, they took me back to the Broom, Four Pounds Ave. and the Plaza, what a dump.
I never saw inside but it was tarted up and reopened as a bingo hall in 1963, with smartly uniformed commissionaire and rope barrier outside.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Wed 23rd Nov 2016 5:25am
A very small image but most of these buildings still exist apart from 'Cleavers Saddlers' which by my reckoning is now the gap where 'Coventry Denture Repairs' now sit - in the gap across to the old Malt Shovel pub. Not sure what happened to it to create that gap.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Sun 27th Nov 2016 9:59pm
Here's an unusual 'vista' - looks like someone climbed up on to the tracks!
I was interested to see those buildings next to The Dyers Arms.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Mon 28th Nov 2016 3:09am
They were pulled down to make a car park for the neighbouring church!
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Mon 28th Nov 2016 8:44am
On 23rd Nov 2016 5:25am, NeilsYard said:
A very small image but most of these buildings still exist apart from 'Cleavers Saddlers'
Interesting - in later years, there was the Gate Saddlery, near the bend by the cobbles as the road bends by the bridge over the Sherbourne. It was run by Audrey Smith, who had riding stables on the Kenilworth Road, and her boyfriend/partner.
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
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Mon 28th Nov 2016 8:51am
On 28th Nov 2016 3:09am, dutchman said:
They were pulled down to make a car park for the neighbouring church!
Would that be the Bethel Church? That's where an uncle of mine, who was divorced, met his second wife, also a divorcee. They couldn't get (re)married in the church, and were ostracised by other church members, so they joined the Salvation Army, in which they remained. My uncle's funeral was even held at the Citadel, which was joined behind the old CET building.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Mon 28th Nov 2016 2:27pm
Yes it is Slim. They've since run into planning problems while trying to redevelop the car park. It's apparently the site of some important historical ruins.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Mon 28th Nov 2016 3:14pm
This is the opening of the Bethel Church in 1940. Was it bombed in the war as it does not look like the pictures of it you can see on Google. It was also made of timber and asbestos on a brick base which might be adding to the problems of development !
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Mon 28th Nov 2016 4:26pm
It was knocked off its brick base in 1940 by a bomb blast which which destroyed the buildings opposite. The congregation surrounded the timber superstructure and manually lifted it back on to its base.
The original timber church was destroyed by fire a few years ago (thought to be arson) and recently rebuilt along with an academy.
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Kerbstone
Auckland NZ |
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Sat 10th Dec 2016 1:19am
On 3rd Jul 2011 4:07pm, dutchman said:
Hi everyone, I don't know if I'm doing this right but here goes. I took a movie on the old 8mm of this incident if anyone is interested. Cheers
https://youtu.be/MVyYBF0ccggIt was a Class 8F 2-8-0 tender loco which over-ran and came down the embankment.
16th December 1962
Picture by Ray Reed (Railways of Warwickshire)
Picture by Ray Reed (Railways of Warwickshire)
Picture by Gordon Coltas (Railways of Warwickshire)
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sat 10th Dec 2016 4:08am
Excellent John, thanks!
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Midland Red
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Sat 10th Dec 2016 8:08am
Yes, brilliant - thanks post that
Not a hi-viz or hard hat in sight |
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Sat 10th Dec 2016 8:32am
Well done Kerbstone for the original and well done for putting it online. It's things like this that will inform the future about the past. |
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