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johnquinn
crowthorne
1 of 35  Wed 31st Oct 2012 9:48pm  

I am looking for a picture of a coin shop that used to be near the Swanswell. It was on a street corner that was 'redeveloped'. This would be mid 60's (I was about 12). I want the picture to illustrate a talk I'm giving next year on coin collecting. The shop was possibly ran by a Mr. Appleby (I'm not sure, everyone called him 'Appy though he could be quite miserable at times). There is no rush with this, the talk's next year but any help appreciated
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
2 of 35  Wed 31st Oct 2012 10:20pm  

Hello & welcome to our Historic Coventry Forum, johnquinn, Wave I am hopeful that some of our former Hillfields members might come up with some info. Wave It might have been on the corner of Wheatley St & White St Wave You are right, it was Cox Street. Bril, MisterD-Di. Thank you Thumbs up
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MisterD-Di
Sutton Coldfield
3 of 35  Wed 31st Oct 2012 11:47pm  

I remember this shop quite well as I sometimes used to go there. He sold foreign stamps as well as coins and I would spend pocket money on both on occasions. Inside was something of an 'Aladdin's Cave'. I do have a memory of the owner as being a bit of a misery. The shop was a sort of prefabricated affair as I recall. It would have been in Cox Street, just around the corner from White Street, on the opposite side to where Sidney Stringer now is, if that makes sense.
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scrutiny
coventry
4 of 35  Thu 1st Nov 2012 4:08am  

Correct MisterD-Di, He was a bit of a misery. There was a bomb site to the rear which was hidden by hoardings, then the pre-fab shops. On the corner there was a green grocers, facing towards the Swanswell, the only building that survived the blast. I am almost sure there is a photo on here somewhere that shows that corner.
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dutchman
Spon End
5 of 35  Thu 1st Nov 2012 1:30pm  

Swanswell Park c1955 on www.francisfrith.com
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johnquinn
crowthorne
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6 of 35  Thu 1st Nov 2012 1:35pm  

Hi All, thanks very much for the rapid response. I had thought it had to be the corner of Cox and White Street but I couldn't be sure. I have looked at the Frith site (amongst loads of others) but sadly nothing was quite right. Yes, there is a picture of the Swanswell pub. I'm sure Appy sold all manner of things, stamps included, but I was only into coins (hadn't discovered girls then). Some years before, my father had been a clippie on the buses (18 via crem!) and he used to occasionally appear at home, with the bus parked outside, if he'd forgotten his sandwiches. On one occasion he took me with him when he was cashing up, somewhere near Broadgate. It was before I started collecting sadly and I often wondered in later years what I might have found in that leather bag Smile Thanks very much to all.
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scrutiny
coventry
7 of 35  Thu 1st Nov 2012 1:43pm  

LOL, Thanks Dutchman. Much appreciated Smile If the pic is blown up, you can make out the hoardings and the greengrocers display right on the corner. The shop in question faced onto Cox St and sold coins, medals, stamps anything he could lay his hands on cheap.
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charabanc
Coventry
8 of 35  Thu 1st Nov 2012 7:45pm  

I am sure that he also used to sell second-hand records and I certainly used to buy stamps for my collection there.
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Tricia
Bedworth
9 of 35  Thu 1st Nov 2012 8:50pm  

Thanks for the photo Dutchman. No sign of me and Mayjan with our fishing nets and jam jars fishing for tiddlers. Lol Lol Lol
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mayjan
Green Lane,Coventry
10 of 35  Thu 1st Nov 2012 11:35pm  

We were probably over Primrose Hill Park, Tricia. Maybe playing on the Slipper Bath steps. Or trailing suspicious looking people and wearing our Famous Five badges! Lol
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johnquinn
crowthorne
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11 of 35  Sat 3rd Nov 2012 1:16pm  

Just to finish off, there was another coin shop in town. It was just off Cross Cheaping/Burges in the alley (Palmer Lane?) that went through to Trinity Street, coming out just above Thorntons. It was called the Coventry Halfpenny I think and the owner there was a lot more laid back. The "Coventry Halfpenny" is the most famous of all the Coventry coins, probably because it has a picture of Lady Godiva on it. If you google it you'll find some good images. Technically speaking it's a token rather than a coin but that's splitting hairs a bit. JC
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Foxcote
Warwick
12 of 35  Sat 3rd Nov 2012 2:25pm  

Afternoon johnquinn, thanks for the 'token' lesson. I vaguely knew about them and 'trucking' and have found some up our garden over the years but I have learnt a lot more about them in the last few days and find the subject really fascinating. There's another topic on here, 'Coventry Coin' I think, where I wrote in about them and I did find some great specimens as you said, some on e-bay, The Herbert and several museums and of course sellers. Thumbs up
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dutchman
Spon End
13 of 35  Sat 3rd Nov 2012 3:42pm  

Wasn't there also a coin dealers in New Union Street, close to the junction with The Quadrant?
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Midland Red

14 of 35  Sat 3rd Nov 2012 9:26pm  

And here it is photographed in 2010 !
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Foxcote
Warwick
15 of 35  Sun 4th Nov 2012 9:02am  

What a change, do you think this old photo is the same building on Palmer Street?
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