Mike59
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Tue 1st Apr 2025 7:38pm
On 1st Apr 2025 6:25pm, Annewiggy said:
Not sure if I have seen this particular view before.
Do I spy the Charles Ager shop, of old?
Mike "Yesterday I was a child of the sixties…. Today I’m a cynical adult…"
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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Wed 2nd Apr 2025 7:30pm
Hello,
Yes, Agers No 6 Smithford St.
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rocksolid
Bristol
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Fri 4th Apr 2025 6:53pm
On 1st Apr 2025 7:38pm, Mike59 said:
On 1st Apr 2025 6:25pm, Annewiggy said:
Not sure if I have seen this particular view before.
Do I spy the Charles Ager shop, of old?
Yes Charles Ager was at number 6, here is a slightly later shot dated early 1930s, the postcard view I would date around mid-late 1920s. It's a shame it's hard to read the name of the shop next door and I've been unable to find a shop name that ties up from the directories. Maybe Heathite could help here?
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Helen F
Warrington
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Fri 4th Apr 2025 7:09pm
The one next to Ager's in the photo is J H Dare but when it was I don't know.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Fri 4th Apr 2025 8:42pm
Looking through the archives, there was a fur shop there around 1919, Dares were there in the 1920s and then Lawleys mid 1930s.
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rocksolid
Bristol
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Sat 5th Apr 2025 10:03am
Anne,
Many thanks for the info, I feel a bit foolish because I hadn't consulted my 1931-2 PJ Directory and there is J H Dare, tailor so I think the postcard view is early 1930s and then Lawley's china shop from c 1935. Incidentally where did you find the image? I wish it could be expanded so that I could read the shop front lettering more clearly. Also when you refer to archives, would that be directories or maybe adverts in the newspaper archive (I know you find the most fascinating info there).
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sat 5th Apr 2025 10:23am
Hi Geoff. The postcard is in a collection of Coventry stuff I have had lent to me which included postcards, 1940's newspapers and a couple of booklets. As I mentioned in another post most of the postcards are of views that we see in lots of places on the internet and books, that one was the only one I thought different. It just so happens Helen asked for a larger copy. If you send me your email address via my contact button I can send you a copy of that.
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Helen F
Warrington
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Sat 5th Apr 2025 12:57pm
I think that I can see the M&S store that they opened on the other corner of Vicar Lane in 1929?
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Sat 5th Apr 2025 1:26pm
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sat 5th Apr 2025 3:03pm
This is what it would have looked like Helen
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