Earlsdon

Link to Coventry Telegraph - regarding the restoration of Earlsdon drinking fountain.

For a change, some good news about our city

Earlsdon could become 'conservation area' to get extra protection from development

St Barbara's history, Earlsdon

Restored and working

Hi Midland Red, Great to see this fountain working again - will definitely have a look when I'm around there next. Was interested to read that it is likely to be the only example of a working Victorian drinking fountain in the whole of the UK.

The fountain was originally to be seen here from where it was relocated in 1921

Thanks Cliff I did wonder where it was originally as I had a look at if refurbed last week. Great Job

I have recently discovered that a new range for the Earlsdon Rifle Club was opened in Whor Lane (Beechwood Avenue) in May 1904. Does anyone know where it was sited please.

Does anyone remember a hardware/ironmongers run by a Mr Williamson in the 1960s ?

On the left-hand side, beyond Moor Street, going from the island?

Herewith a couple of pictures of the business in later years

Greylad. Thank you for posting photo showing Mr Williamson's hardware shop in Earlsdon. In the mid 1960s I was in a rock group with his son in Coventry.

Does anyone remember the Albany Club on the Albany Rd in the 60s. Steward Mr Tovey (Mr T), and the pork bap shop opposite Broadway, they were delicious.

Sally, I do remember the pork batch shop in Albany road and agree that it was good. I remember going in there just after the Kennedy assassination and all the talk of it. I also used to use an off licence in that area and remember on one night as I went in I passed someone coming out. The owner of the shop asked me if I knew him, saying that he was a Pole who regularly came in to buy two pints of Guiness and a bottle of vodka that he said he used to boil with two pounds of sugar to make a stronger drink.