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NeilsYard
Coventry
106 of 131  Wed 13th Oct 2021 11:23am  

This one could've gone in a few threads as it covers quite a few street, though Lower Ford is visible. The backs of the properties on Godiva Street are visible in the foreground. Obviously pre-Ring Road but I don't think it's too long before. You can see the old Raglan Glass Works.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
107 of 131  Thu 4th Nov 2021 3:35pm  

Is this Lower Ford Street? Loving the GEC gates. That's the Graham Sutherland Uni Building in the background.
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Midland Red

108 of 131  Thu 4th Nov 2021 4:17pm  

Francis Barnett gates?
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matchle55
Coventry
109 of 131  Thu 4th Nov 2021 4:24pm  

I have, today, driven through those very gates. But not at that location. They are on a private estate near Pailton Lol
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Helen F
Warrington
110 of 131  Thu 4th Nov 2021 4:48pm  

The house on the left is number 11, which would fit with the telecoms works on the south side of Lower Ford Street. Thumbs up Francis Barnett was a very short distance off to the right.
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matchle55
Coventry
111 of 131  Thu 4th Nov 2021 7:01pm  

I should have said, the gates were, at that time, used by Lea Francis Blush
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NeilsYard
Coventry
112 of 131  Fri 5th Nov 2021 10:52am  

Yes, I'm sure they were originally Lea Francis, however if you look closely in that image it says GEC Telecommunications Ltd, Private Systems Division.
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scrutiny
coventry
113 of 131  Fri 5th Nov 2021 11:49am  

As my memory is a bit vague, I am almost sure they were always GEC. The building to the right, the gate house. Next to that was a builders yard with offices and a newsagents. Now you get Francis Barnett with big double wooden doors. The motorbikes were only really tested at night time. As kids we used to watch them coming and going. One came back with smoke pouring out from the engine, they did manage to put it out. Thumbs up
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Helen F
Warrington
114 of 131  Fri 5th Nov 2021 1:05pm  

As with many businesses it depends when you're talking about. When businesses are expanding they might swallow up a neighbour and in turn may release buildings they no longer need or can afford. scrutiny's description matches the 1950 map.
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scrutiny
coventry
115 of 131  Fri 5th Nov 2021 1:16pm  

I was born in 1948 just across the road at no 30 LFS. I Used to play in the sand at a very young age in the builders yard. When it was clocking off time you stayed away from those gates otherwise you would get mowed down with the flood of cycles coming through them, five minutes later you could not see one of them. Big grin
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
116 of 131  Fri 5th Nov 2021 2:04pm  

You tell it as it is, Scrutiny, That makes it so sweet.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
117 of 131  Thu 17th Mar 2022 2:04pm  

They keep turning up! Another from Dean Nelson.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
118 of 131  Tue 3rd May 2022 2:29pm  

Another cracker from Paul Stevenson on FB. LFS looking west towards the Alexandra/Fleapit, May 1969. The Ring Road is just going up in the background.
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
119 of 131  Wed 4th May 2022 5:27am  

I remember the Alex very well, Neil. Also the other 'fleapit', the Plaza - although I don't remember catching anything from there. Roll eyes
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Choirboy
Bicester
120 of 131  Mon 6th Feb 2023 7:32pm  

On 5th Nov 2021 1:16pm, scrutiny said: I was born in 1948 just across the road at no 30 LFS. I Used to play in the sand at a very young age in the builders yard. When it was clocking off time you stayed away from those gates otherwise you would get mowed down with the flood of cycles coming through them, five minutes later you could not see one of them. Big grin
My dad could have been one of the cycling stampede. He worked there in the Jobbing Shop from 1938 but I think he moved to the Model Room at Copsewood sometime about 1948. I believe he said GEC Lower Ford Street was the Radio Works when he was there. The Francis Barnett was further along to the right, on the bend. I remember looking inside when the doors were open in summer and seeing the engines being assembled ~1956. Wiki says the plant closed in 1962.
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