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Sun 20th Feb 2011 7:43pm
Here is a photo taken of T.W. Liggins builder, don't know who is standing in the doorway nor where the photo could be taken from. If you look at the picture carefully, in the window of the shop you may notice what I think is St John's Church, the shape is uncanny and you can see the turrets on the top. To the left of the building there is a gap (could this be demolition or bomb damage)
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dutchman
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Sun 20th Feb 2011 11:58pm
I think it's much earlier than that?
A "Thomas William Liggins" (builder) married Catherine Newbold on 8th August 1882 at Holy Trinity Church and from the way the person in the photo is dressed, the picture could well have been taken on that same day!
From the slope of the ground I would say it was the east side of Hill Street, somewhere near the Newdigate Arms on the corner of Bond Street although documents of the time give his home address in 1891 as being in Queen Victoria Road.
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Mon 21st Feb 2011 12:44pm
How interesting, could give me some new leads, thanks for helping me out
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Midland Red
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Mon 21st Feb 2011 3:39pm
Trade Directory for 1912-13 has T W Liggins & Co, Builders, at 102 Queen Victoria Road
Agree it doesn't stack up with the photo and the sloping ground
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Tue 22nd Feb 2011 5:41pm
The interest in this is great!! Does anybody think that the reflection in the window could be that of St John's Church?
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Tue 22nd Feb 2011 6:47pm
If the picture was taken in Hill Street, yes.
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Wed 23rd Feb 2011 11:12am
How could he be in two places at once? Intriguing mysteries again!
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Thu 24th Feb 2011 3:34am
That picture couldn't have been taken in Queen Victoria Road as the ground there was completely flat. Nor could it have been taken in nearby Holyhead Road as the ground there slopes the opposite way.
There is no reason why Liggins couldn't have moved from Hill Street to Queen Victoria Road after that picture was taken.
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Greenman
Cumbria |
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Thu 24th Feb 2011 4:01pm
I wondered for a while if the reflection in the shop window could have been the tower of Queen's Road Baptist Church, but the slope is wrong.
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Wed 15th Feb 2012 9:03am
Just a note to say that Mr Alf Youell passed away on Monday, age 98
He is listed on "Famous Coventrians"
A really nice man and a great character
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NormK
bulkington |
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Wed 15th Feb 2012 9:15am
Was he anything to do with Youells the builders?
Milly rules
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NormK
bulkington |
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Wed 15th Feb 2012 9:50am
Just checked him out... the name rang a bell because Youells were a well known builder around Coventry and he built loads of properties in and around the town..He lived to a ripe old age....
Milly rules
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Greg
Coventry |
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Wed 15th Feb 2012 12:13pm
Among many other developments, he built some houses at Aldermans Green and Warwick Green Bulkington.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks |
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Wed 15th Feb 2012 1:27pm
Hi all
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