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Langtonian
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421 of 427  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
422 of 427  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
423 of 427  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
424 of 427  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
425 of 427  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
426 of 427  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
427 of 427  Fri 12th Jul 2024 5:21pm  

Thanks Anne/Helen - I thought it looked familiar Double thumbs up
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