deanocity3
keresley
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Tue 31st Dec 2013 5:24pm
Here is Coundon Road, looks like it was here opposite Bablake School, 1934
They may have lived at 270 Allesley Old Road
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audy100
Blackburn
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17 of 34
Sun 6th Apr 2014 9:17pm
On 24th Jun 2013 8:34am, Midland Red said:
On 24th Jun 2013 3:24am, Dreamtime said:
Hi Dutchman,
I know it was Coates who delivered our coke in the 60's. Were they situated on the Coundon Road at that time. ? 
From the 1959 GPO Telephone Directory :
Coates J, & Sons, Coal Mchts
270 Allesley Old rd - Coventry 75138
Coundon whf Coundon rd - Coventry 61576
can anybody tell me me if the guy who owned the coal merchants had a son called stan  |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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18 of 34
Sun 6th Apr 2014 9:22pm
Hi & welcome to our forum, Audy100.
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Annie
Coventry
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19 of 34
Sun 29th Mar 2015 5:08pm
Does anyone have any pics or info about a coal merchants yard that was situated where Sky Blue Way now runs behind Far Gosford Street, owned by Charles Woodward (my great grandfather)
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heathite
Coventry
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20 of 34
Wed 1st Jun 2016 5:19pm
Is this the Coates being referred to?
Taken from 1926 directory, Woodwards not in the directory as Coal Merchants.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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21 of 34
Wed 1st Jun 2016 5:41pm
On 1st Nov 2011 7:49pm, heritage said:
Having recently transcribed the Coventry registration books for narrow boats between 1879 and 1924 they tell us that John Morton registered nine narrow boats to carry coal mainly between Polesworth and Moira. All were pulled by horses.
6 14/1/1879. Florence - John Morton, Coal Merchant, 17 High Street, Coventry
7 14/1/1879. Alfred- John Morton, Coal Merchant, 17 High Street, Coventry
8 11/3/1879. Rosa (changed to The Stormy Petrel in 1894 when sold) - John Morton, Coal Merchant, (William Blower, Coleshill in Jul 1894), (W.H.Green, Atherstone in Dec 1894), 17 High Street, Coventry
9 11/3/1879. Charles - John Morton, Coal Merchant, 17 High Street, Coventry
18 20/5/1879. Percy - John Morton, High Street, Coventry
35 25/2/1879. Alice - John Morton, Coal Merchant, White Street, Coventry
39 11/3/1879. William - John Morton, Coal Merchant, White Street, Coventry
42 11/3/1879. Walter (Lucerne) - James Linden, Coal Merchant (John Morton), East Street, Coventry (High Street, Coventry)
161 12/2/1884. Florence - John Morton, Coal Merchant, White Street, Coventry
Heritage, you could look up my family narrowboats, we had at least ten boats registered, all pulled by horse, mostly if not all coal. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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22 of 34
Wed 1st Jun 2016 5:48pm
There was A Timms, coal merchants, Ball Hill, now 93, often seen in the Ball Hill area shopping.
I know he was over the moon when Binley installed the new showers in the mid fifties. |
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heathite
Coventry
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23 of 34
Wed 1st Jun 2016 6:21pm
Taken from 1874 Warwickshire directory.
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heathite
Coventry
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24 of 34
Wed 1st Jun 2016 6:35pm
1935 Cov Dir, sorry I keep forgetting to add the date/year.
Any relation sir? |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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25 of 34
Thu 2nd Jun 2016 12:56pm
Heathite, thank you. A George Simpson, after leaving the coal boats, owned the Miners Arms, I think he would be to old to be that one, but could be a relative.
In 1880 his father John left the sons to run the boats and kept the Bird in Hand, 1863, his wife ran it 1866 to 68.
Enoch, another son, ran the Jolly Colliers,1880 time.
Thomas ran the Jolly Colliers in 1888.
Another relative ran the Rose and Crown in Bell Green.
They all seemed to retire, own a pub, and leave their sons to work the horse drawn coal boats, but it's hard to trace them as they moved and birth cert's are hard to find. |
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johnwright
combe martim
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26 of 34
Thu 2nd Jun 2016 7:32pm
Hi all.
Does anyone remember the coal merchants at the top of Windmill Road, Longford? They were in the first house on the left, behind the Ritz cinema. I cannot remember their name or how long they had been there.
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Norman Conquest
Allesley
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27 of 34
Fri 3rd Jun 2016 2:54pm
Hello John. That coal haggler was Franklin. I remember him with his horse and cart delivering coal around Foleshill and Bell Green.
Franklin also had a yard on Windmill Rd near the Green Man and it was always a wonder to me how he managed to carry those sacks of coal because he wasn't a big man.
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johnwright
combe martim
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28 of 34
Fri 3rd Jun 2016 8:38pm
Norman Conquest.
Many thanks for answering my question concerning the coal merchant at the top of Dovedale Avenue as Franklin's. Although not our normal coal merchant, I can remember being sent to Mr Franklin's for coal if we had run out. Funny how one remembers such small incidents that happened over 60 years ago, yet can't remember where I went last week!!!! |
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Norman Conquest
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29 of 34
Fri 3rd Jun 2016 8:46pm
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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30 of 34
Sun 5th Jun 2016 7:09pm
johnwright, regarding the coal merchants Franklin, Windmill Road.
Didn't they have a daughter Lynn went to Windmill Road School?
And I believe one of the Franklin family was a builder and built houses down Aldermans Green Rd in 1939. |
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