Langtonian
Coventry
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Sun 26th May 2024 12:09pm
Shortages of houses and building materials suggest that any rebuilding immediately post war would be utilitarian in nature. Since we have a photo taken by George Bott in Lythalls Lane he clearly got about. My guess is that he did trade by going around the newly built streets offering to take photos of the new houses with their proud occupants. After all, the subject of our mystery photo is as much the house itself as the occupants, who only occupy a corner of the frame.
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Helen F
Warrington
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Sun 26th May 2024 1:50pm
On 26th May 2024 11:52am, Annewiggy said:
Sorry, I keep getting drawn back to 8 Clements Street ! Rob, does it say any more on the back of the picture, would it be possible to have a shot of it ? I still feel that the block of houses were in some stage rebuilt, newer brickwork and the line of fancy brickwork does not appear in any other in the street. There was bomb damage in Clements Street as there is a file on Coventry Collections of photographs. Also a petition was raised in 1957 asking for something to be done about the bomb site on the corner of Villiers Street and Clements Street. All obviously conjecture again ! Whatever, I still think it must be in the Stoke area as almost all the pictures I have seen by that photographer, even the ones in Coventry Graphic are in that area.
It seems likely that this photo was the family in their newbuild. An enterprising photographer may have made a point of visiting all the new properties in the city, hoping to pick up custom. 'Hello, I'm in the area this week, could I interest you in a portrait of you and your family in front of your house? Special price if you take up the offer today'. So while he may have been based in one area, he may have done block shoots elsewhere. Like all those street views that have just been uploaded on CD, he may have also taken generic views to sell to those who couldn't afford portraits.
You see the same activity earlier but of the much wealthier residential areas and much later but with aerial shots of properties. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sun 26th May 2024 3:31pm
That is exactly what I thought Helen, though in 1911 number 8 was occupied by a young couple, Tom Victor Richmond aged 23 and his wife Clara Esther who had been married less than a year. If George Bott was living there in 1912 was he a lodger or had he taken over the house, perhaps it is him and his family. There are so many ifs and buts!
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Fri 12th Jul 2024 2:37pm
This picture purports to show "Copies of the Midland Daily Telegraph being loaded into Alvis vans ready for delivery to newsagents. September 1924".
The Midland Daily Telegraph was showing as being at 18 Hertford Street on the 1926 Directory - we have images via CD on here on the Street thread showing its bomb damage. With this being the rear could this possibly be the area behind where Vicar Lane ran along to? I've tried matching up the buildings/layout but there are so few images of that spot as we know -
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Helen F
Warrington
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Fri 12th Jul 2024 3:06pm
I'm fairly sure that these faced onto the Barracks' parade yard. Vicar Lane was chopped off by the parade yard buildings and moved about when the theatre/cinema/corn exchange was built. But yes, before all that was built Vicar Lane came to within the location of that clipping photo if in the background. It stopped and became a path before the parade ground buildings though and I think that whole area was a mix of pasture, orchard and market garden.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Fri 12th Jul 2024 5:09pm
Yes, definitely the buildings on the left of the picture of the barracks.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Fri 12th Jul 2024 5:21pm
Thanks Anne/Helen - I thought it looked familiar  |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Fri 2nd May 2025 11:56am
New one to me to work out from the maps - some nice Court detail - This came from a 'Future Coventry' pamplet - produced by the Council in 1945 to showcase plans & ideas for rebuilding the city post-war.
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Helen F
Warrington
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Fri 2nd May 2025 12:20pm
A great picture Neil but I'm cheating by saying I know where it is because when I first saw it, it was labelled It's part of a series taken from some building in West Orchard. The photo to the left of the series is easier to identify because it shows the back of Comley's on the Burges. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Fri 2nd May 2025 2:54pm
It's interesting to see from that how the buildings are all squashed together facing different ways to get as many in as they could. (A bit like modern housing estates !)
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands
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Sun 4th May 2025 11:50am
On 2nd May 2025 11:56am, NeilsYard said:
New one to me to work out from the maps - some nice Court detail - This came from a 'Future Coventry' pamplet - produced by the Council in 1945 to showcase plans & ideas for rebuilding the city post-war.
Note the pole left foreground with cross arms.
Difficult to scale weaving in and out of the arms and could be painful if you brushed past the open uninsulated wires particularly on a cold damp day.
Minimal PPE back in the day. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Wed 10th Sep 2025 4:21pm
We all love a good mystery poser don't we...............
Neal Turner recently posted this one on FB -
A question for the elderly knowledgeable ones.
@ 60 years ago I was told this was taken 'at the Admiral Lord ??? in Coventry'. But my memory is but a faded melodrama, so, Rodney or Codrington?
Can you remember the roofline of these two pubs?
Did any have access up to there?
Most difficult, are the distant buildings readily identifiable?
Thank you in advance for any useful input
The building behind does look a bit like the Codrington but the windows and chimneys are not completely correct.............unless it's from behind? .......Or is this really Cov?! |
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Helen F
Warrington
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Wed 10th Sep 2025 5:46pm
A tough one Neil. There aren't many roof line balustrades and the little barrier at the bottom of the windows is odd. I shall have a think about it.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Thu 11th Sep 2025 5:25pm
Helen, I think we are looking for something with a roof like Mr Wright's House !
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Helen F
Warrington
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Thu 11th Sep 2025 6:05pm
I was thinking the same Anne  , but there were a limited number and they were on old streets (ie not Hertford Street). It could be a modern version but the one that sprang to mind - the Sydenham Palace - doesn't work. The angle on the balustrade to the street looks like a junction, rather than part of the same street. There are mostly shallow roofs including slate and lead, which were less common in the centre. |
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