Mick Strong
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Fri 6th Nov 2020 4:37pm
On 22nd Nov 2015 8:58pm, RLCherrington said:
I thought the Methodist hall was down at Prior Deram Walk? I always thought it was the Gospel Hall in my day which might have been after '62. The interesting thing for me is that the pubs and the Canley Club came before the churches and Canley was once described by a Bishop (or someone similar) as a 'godless' estate with many lost souls drifting aimlessly.....
Hi Ruth, I can confirm that it was "Charter Gospel Hall, Canley" as I have just dug out the bible I was given for attendance in 1959, signed by T Foster (superintendent) and H Hollingsworth (teacher).
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Tue 15th Dec 2020 8:02pm
At Henry Parkes school, there was a girl called Daphne Bramble who was a little older than me. What a footballer she was. Anyone remember her?
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wmrumball
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Wed 10th Mar 2021 11:39am
On 6th Mar 2013 4:04pm, Bakerlea said:
I lived at 2 Freeburn Causeway from 1947 to 1959, and my Dad had a mobile greengrocery shop which was kept parked outside the house in the evenings and his round was in Kenilworth.
I don't remember any other shop of the same kind, so it must have been there after 1959.
I also remember the Dolphin pub. As kids we used to climb over the fence into the bottle store, take empty bottles, and take them to the off licence dept and claim the penny deposit. Not very honest, but kids would be kids.
2 Freeburn Causeway... you must have been almost opposite the Dolphin which you describe. The hut was still there when I moved into 5 Templars Fields across the road from the brook. You must have lived near my soccer-mad friend Al Broderick in Freeburn. Did you know him? Don't recall what happened to him after we left school.
Bill Rumball
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Midland Red
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Wed 10th Mar 2021 11:49am
Hi Bill and welcome to our friendly Forum
Your post above responds to one from 2013 and in fact the poster has not visited the Forum for over five years.... so I'm doubtful they will see yours.
If you go back to their post, you'll find that there's a contact button for them - whether they've changed their email address since then, I don't know - but you might like to try and get in touch with the poster that way.
Be careful, though, bearing in mind we've not heard from them for so long.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Wed 10th Mar 2021 11:51am
Hi Bill, did you attend Henry Parkes? if so what years?
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands
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Wed 10th Mar 2021 4:02pm
Any idea when Walsall Street was built. I recall the post war single storey prefabs in Wendiburgh Street so I would hazard a guess at late 40s early 50s.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Wed 10th Mar 2021 4:28pm
Our back garden on Charter Avenue backed onto the back gardens at the top of the horseshoe of Walsall Street. We moved in 1953 and I cannot remember any building going on, so I guess it was during the late 40's.
All of the prefabs have now gone and are housing.
I remember the single storey buildings in Mayors Croft, where the concrete stairs stopped at the roof, they have finally finished them off now and they all have roofs.
The council set up some allotments at the bottom of Mitchell Ave in about 71/72 and I think they took over the hut as a storeroom.
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands
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Wed 10th Mar 2021 7:24pm
It's quite possible our two gardens backed onto each other Mick as we lived at 55 Walsall Street.
We were the neighbours from Hell, always shouting and being noisy, laser shows and disco parties galore, we were ahead of the time in 1956!!
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Wed 10th Mar 2021 7:44pm
Did either of your neighbours have a son called Graham? Their garden was exactly opposite ours.
Looking on Google Maps, our house backed onto number 59
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bobles
ontario,canada
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Thu 25th Mar 2021 5:05pm
Walsall Street was being built in 1939 or a bit earlier. Due to the war and lack of materials not all two storey houses were completed, thus the single storey ones. We moved into #46 early fifties. My parents lived there until moving to Ohio in 1972.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Thu 25th Mar 2021 5:45pm
Hi bobles. Did you go to Henry Parkes?
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TonyS
Coventry
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Fri 25th Jun 2021 11:39am
On 7th Dec 2014 4:19pm, michaelrea said:
On 24th Jun 2011 12:33am, derbyskyblue said:
Well as I started at Sir Henry Parkes junior school in 1969, although I was also in the infant school as well (1965 to 1969) it's hard to recognise them although Mr Bayliss does stand out. I seem to recall Mr Rea was still riding the same bike that he used during the blitz, and was damaged by fire from his shed which some vandals started. Does anyone know any more on this?
My late father's bike is in the museum of Transport Coventry. I gave it to them when he died.....
From Michael Rea, The Zero Carbon House, Unst, Shetland.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Thu 22nd Jul 2021 8:57am
What memories that picture gave me. Les Rea, a great teacher and a great man.
He taught me in my last year at Henry Parkes in 1961, coached me in football and took the team on to win the junior schools shield, we also won at rounders that year.
I remember, he also collected car number plates, and would show me how he collated them.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Wed 1st Sep 2021 9:40am
Anyone remember the wooden dining huts at Henry Parkes?
Coloured aluminum beakers with about half an inch of water in them. Tapioca pudding?
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bobles
ontario,canada
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Fri 3rd Dec 2021 5:15pm
I attended Sir Henry Parkes in the mid-fifties and was taught by Mr Rea, then on to Woodlands. Came to Ontario in 1967.
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