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Primrose
16 of 34  Thu 11th Sep 2014 8:28pm  
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PhiliPamInCoventry
17 of 34  Thu 11th Sep 2014 9:59pm  
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Canley
18 of 34  Thu 11th Sep 2014 11:58pm  

To me, it is the memories and stories of forum members that makes the site so interesting. It is the detail that is always missing from history books. Most histories concentrate on 'the great and the good' and forget the experiences of other people's lives.
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
19 of 34  Fri 12th Sep 2014 2:37am  

On 11th Sep 2014 5:06pm, Prof said: I think Millenium Square is an excresence and the blue walkway over Lady Herbert's ruins the scale of the historic remains (Priory Gate) as do the dreaded boomerangs over the square. Bring back the Hippodrome!
Hi Prof, Oh those ugly boomerangs (I know I know) well thankfully I don't have to look at them but, if you throw them away I hope you know you will get them back. I don't think they fit in at all. Oh my
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Bedworth
20 of 34  Fri 12th Sep 2014 3:50pm  

The tales of recovering precious metal from aprons and floorboards reminds me of a tale from Courtaulds. In the 1970's they had a department called the 'Spinnerette' or something similar. It was explained to me that nylon threads were made by drawing the raw materiel through a metal plate which had lots of little holes drilled in it. These plates were made at the Spinnerette from platinum. I was told that the cleaning rags, overalls, and floor sweepings went to a specialist company who recovered the platinum dust and swarf. Perhaps someone who worked at Courtaulds could give a fuller explanation?
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
21 of 34  Fri 12th Sep 2014 4:22pm  

Hello all Wave One of the specialist companies used by Courtaulds Spinnerette was Johnson Matthey, who had specialist equipment for recovering the most minute particles of metallic dust. What wasn't so cleaver was the ground that the Spinnerette building stood on. Having been reclaimed & filled in clay quarries belonging to Webster's, the whole building was sinking. It would not have been quite so bad if it had all sunk at the same rate, but in one room a door had become a window. Wave Thank you both for your posts on this. I recently bumped into the general manager & his wife, shopping at the Ricoh. Sid ran the unit very well. Thumbs up
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Torksey
22 of 34  Fri 12th Sep 2014 9:20pm  

Forgive me, What were (are) the " Boomerangs"? I must have done my tour with my eyes closed. Sinking founds, and there`s me been saying Courtaulds Architects Dept. were brilliant or didn`t they speak to the Engineering Dept? I thought the only complaint about Courtaulds, was what came out of their chimneys, it was really "death" to wash day. (or was it somebody else?) and they got the blame Sorry I`m really off thread now, but I cannot let Courtaulds pass without mentioning the cricket ground and watching Warwickshire play there, particularly one game where Eric Hollies (our Eric) was knocking sixes of Roly Thompson the Worcestershire spin bowler and also the first appearance of Ray Hitchcock in Warwickshire colours after apparently working his passage from New Zealand - it was some sort of charity match and he got over 50 and look what a great player he became for them.He joined a good set of New Zealanders, Martin Donnelly, Tom Pritchard, Keith Dollery
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Midland Red

23 of 34  Fri 12th Sep 2014 10:16pm  

Can't pm you as the system doesn't allow I think you mean Roly Jenkins There was a Roly Thompson, a Coventry kid who was a fast-medium bowler for Warwickshire Thumbs up
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Canley
24 of 34  Fri 12th Sep 2014 10:36pm  

I think it is the 'vanes' on the footbridge they are calling boomerangs
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Midland Red

25 of 34  Sat 13th Sep 2014 8:24am  

Or is it these? Oh my
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Roger T
Torksey
26 of 34  Sat 13th Sep 2014 9:27am  

Midland Red 19 of 19 Sat 13th Sep 2014 8:24am Or is it these? Oh_my Ugg!!!!!!! Oh my Oh my Oh my
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Roger T
Torksey
27 of 34  Sat 13th Sep 2014 9:32am  

On 12th Sep 2014 10:16pm, Midland Red said: Can't pm you as the system doesn't allow I think you mean Roly Jenkins There was a Roly Thompson, a Coventry kid who was a fast-medium bowler for Warwickshire Thumbs up
Of Course you are correct, Never (I don`t think) saw Roly Thompson play, didn`t he follow the Tom Pritchard and Charlie Grove era? Have we a thread on Warwickshire Cricket memories?
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Midland Red

28 of 34  Sat 13th Sep 2014 9:43am  

Roly Thompson on Wikipedia Thumbs up
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
29 of 34  Sat 13th Sep 2014 2:27pm  

On 13th Sep 2014 8:24am, Midland Red said: Or is it these? Oh my
There' the ones I thought looked like boomerangs MR - don't you think ?

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PhiliPamInCoventry
30 of 34  Sat 13th Sep 2014 2:44pm  
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