Earl Street (inc. Palace Yard)

Hi Prof In your photo, the Palace Yard is on the very left. Then there was a printer/publisher. In the Troughton sketch, the printer's is the flat fronted building on the left. The Palace Yard is very shy and as far as I know only appears in a Bunney watercolour. It's Palladian in style (which looks Georgian to me) but quite shabby by the time Bunney recorded it. It had a big grey sign for Doherty Motor Components Co. over the gateway. The gateway had a big wooden gate with a wicket door in it. The hours I've spent trying to match up the buildings in that sketch with the map.

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Great find Prof! Where was that one from?

Helen, I have the Bunney book, which does not help for lack of index, but I can see no watercolour of the Earl St entrance to Palace Yard or even the more familiar views. It is not in the Earl St section. Can you help?

Such a shame this picture isn't clearer but it might be better if you could see the original when the record office is open again. It is from the CET 18th May 1977. it might be worth trying to follow up what happened to Mr Birchley's sketch book !

Hi Prof, as part of my Coventry endeavours I took photos of a lot of the full Bunney collection (far, far more than the ones in the book). I almost missed it. I'll try and mock up a version of how it looked. Maybe the pictures will appear next year?

Troughton drawing of Earl St just found on PinInterest.

Got a link Prof? That Troughton sketch in post#75 does not look much like the picture in post#74? Must have been a few changes?

Hope you don't mind Prof but as it was so good I've blown that one up - such a rare view of that southern frontage -

Of course Neil, I'm delighted. Found in the Library pics no less. Suppose it is the building on the far left of the photo? I think the Technical Institute must be there too, the three storey one with 11 windows, a door and a very long roof to the rear?

I think it will appear in Coventry Past and Passing in the Troughton sketches there. I will look up my copy when I can find it! Alas it is the Lines Collection and not Troughton Drawings.

Brill! Not sure how I've missed that one before unless our leader has been adding images - well done both anyway!! It made my day!

The archway in post 63 is the entrance to the former technical school, the line of properties is described in post 80, from right to left as Church Book Shop, Old Palace Yard, Dragoon cycle shop, entrance to former technical school.

Awesome work Helen / all. So if that archway was to the Technical Institute, what is, as Prof asks, "the three storey one with 11 windows, a door and a very long roof to the rear?"