mickw
nuneaton |
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Fri 14th Aug 2015 5:34pm
What a coincidence my wife and myself are renovating a Welsh dresser and we've been looking for some appropriate brass hardware but nothing we've seen in the likes of B&Q etc hasn't really come up to expectations I said to her it's a shame Phillips aren't still in business we'd have found exactly what we wanted there. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
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Fri 11th Sep 2015 7:01pm
Hi people, have only just caught up with this topic, and will never be able to read it all, but near the start K talked about Caplans in the precinct, on the curve about two doors away from Woolies, well I was the first customer to order a suit from him when he opened, I only went in for a tailor made jacket, but he said if I ordered the suit he would only charge me half-price as his first customer, the best suit I ever had, never found another jacket to fit so well, and last so long. must have been about 54/55 time.
There was also a barber opened up, at the bottom of Hertford st/ Warwick row, almost opposite the YMCA, about the same time, the first real trendy stylist, I used for a number of years, not sure now if it was Jackson?
Trouble with this forum, no me, is I moved about the city centre, all day every day, and now can.t remember the names and places of the shops I used frequently in those old days, yet when you see a picture, ah now, I was always served by that old woman with the squinty eyes instead of the young blonde, comes back to me.
There was a sweet shop in Gosford street, on the left about two doors away from Ford street, early fifties I believe, Told me he had a knew kind of sweets, chocolate liqueurs, so I bought some, often wondered is that when they came in? |
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands |
498 of 954
Sun 18th Oct 2015 6:05pm
5 points if anyone can remember the name of the supermarket that first traded on the current site of Iceland, Queen Victoria Road.
No looking at old records, telephone directories, Google or any other search device.
Straight from the memory. |
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bohica
coventry |
499 of 954
Sun 18th Oct 2015 7:04pm
Victor Value? |
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Bertiewoost
Mount Nod, Coventry |
500 of 954
Sun 18th Oct 2015 7:04pm
From what I can remember, was it Victor Value?? bertiewoost@gmail.com
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coventry49
Budleigh Salterton, Devon |
501 of 954
Sun 18th Oct 2015 7:18pm
Bejams? |
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dutchman
Spon End |
502 of 954
Sun 18th Oct 2015 7:48pm
It was "Foodfare" before it became Victor Value.
![]() The Victor Value chain included some former Anthony Jackson Foodfare outlets, which it acquired in the early 1960s. |
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Covkidd
Coventry |
503 of 954
Sun 18th Oct 2015 8:24pm
The demise of the Co-op got me to thinking what would be the shop in the city centre that has been on the same site for the longest time? My guess is Agers next to the Co-op followed by Marks and Spencer and British Home Stores. Question |
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Helen F |
504 of 954
Sun 18th Oct 2015 10:44pm
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dutchman
Spon End |
505 of 954
Mon 19th Oct 2015 12:54am
On 18th Oct 2015 6:05pm, Positively Pottering said:
5 points if anyone can remember the name of the supermarket that first traded on the current site of Iceland, Queen Victoria Road.
I asked exactly the same question here myself in 2012 ![]() |
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands |
506 of 954
Mon 19th Oct 2015 7:36am
I just knew you'd get it Dutchman.
Five points winging their way to you. |
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Dreamtime |
507 of 954
Fri 23rd Oct 2015 2:31pm
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Midland Red
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508 of 954
Fri 23rd Oct 2015 2:37pm
On 18th Oct 2015 8:24pm, Covkidd said:
The demise of the Co-op got me to thinking what would be the shop in the city centre that has been on the same site for the longest time? My guess is Agers next to the Co-op followed by Marks and Spencer and British Home Stores.
Agers seems like a very good shout - unless anyone knows better! ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks |
509 of 954
Fri 23rd Oct 2015 3:59pm
Hi all ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red
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510 of 954
Fri 23rd Oct 2015 4:35pm
According to their history page, they moved to Corporation Street within weeks of 14 Nov 1940 ![]() |
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