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NeilsYard
Coventry
151 of 168  Fri 12th Nov 2021 9:29am  

I think CliffB found the best one of the Greyfriars Cannon - "The start of Tank Week at Greyfriars Green in Coventry, 11th February 1918. Tank No 119 'Ole Willie' travelled the country raising money in war bonds. Coventry raised a record breaking £1,370,236." ...and probably the last ever image of it.
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Osmiroid
UK
152 of 168  Fri 12th Nov 2021 12:23pm  

That's great, Neil! Definitely not seen that before. The lower one is the barrel picture I mentioned. I heard they were going to melt it for the war, but they didn't until after the war? If so they might as well have repaired it.
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Helen F
Warrington
153 of 168  Fri 12th Nov 2021 1:22pm  

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NeilsYard
Coventry
154 of 168  Fri 12th Nov 2021 2:10pm  

Thanks to my friend Paul Michael Kennelly, this picture shows Lancers at the Coventry Barracks with the two Crimean guns circa 1860. They were captured and presented to the city in July 1858. Apparently they were cast in 1799, were 40cwt and measured 8ft 2in each. This must rate as one of Coventry's earliest photograph's?!
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Osmiroid
UK
155 of 168  Fri 12th Nov 2021 5:23pm  

Nice find Neil. Helen, is that a cropped picture? It's good either way though.
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Helen F
Warrington
156 of 168  Fri 12th Nov 2021 5:34pm  

It is a cropped, enhanced picture Osmiroid but I still think that I've seen better. I'll post one when I see it. Neil, it would be one of the earliest pictures, I've never worked out the oldest. Is it me or does the guy on the left look like Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
157 of 168  Sun 14th Nov 2021 9:20am  

I don't think these were the soldiers of the origin of 'Sent to Coventry', they were much earlier, but still boycotted by Coventry residents. Soldiers carried the story all over the world. The soldiers of old had to execute distress warrants amongst residents especially butchers of Butcher Row, who had to supply the soldiers' rations, the meat taken by forcible means. Butchers, not liking what they considered unjust, opposed the soldiers, one of whom was killed by a butcher (black Friday chopping time), many injured.
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Wearethemods
Aberdeenshire
158 of 168  Sun 14th Nov 2021 7:48pm  

I don't think these were the soldiers of the origin of 'Sent to Coventry', it was Roman Legionaires.
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Helen F
Warrington
159 of 168  Sun 14th Nov 2021 8:14pm  

Now I heard that it was the Royalists locked up during the Civil War who were 'sent to Coventry'. Some were housed in St John's Church but a few might have been locked up in Greyfriars Gate. The Bridewell was a prison next to St John's and the Spon Street Gate but I'm not 100% sure if it dated back to the Civil War.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
160 of 168  Sun 14th Nov 2021 8:37pm  

I thought it was civil war as well, Helen.
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Prof
Gloucester
161 of 168  Fri 4th Feb 2022 1:07pm  

I am sad to be told Warwick Road URC church is to be SOLD. Not to a developer I HOPE!
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NeilsYard
Coventry
162 of 168  Fri 4th Feb 2022 2:25pm  

Ohh! Lets hope not indeed Prof. I used to go there for the Bablake boys prize-giving for my lads. Great building.
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Dreamer58
Coventry
163 of 168  Fri 4th Feb 2022 3:13pm  

I'm sad to hear that that amazing church building is for sale. Pentecostal congregations are growing and popping all the time and I really hope one of them buys the building and uses it for the reason it was built.
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Prof
Gloucester
164 of 168  Sat 27th Aug 2022 3:49pm  

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NeilsYard
Coventry
165 of 168  Fri 17th Nov 2023 4:56pm  

Adding here as we don't have a dedicated Warwick Road thread, but we've seen that ace 'Spider' clock before!
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