Shops of yore

I never doubted that it was, at one time, an electrical shop - just queried that it was Comet!!!

Thanks for reply MR. Comet didn't occupy that shop for very long as they moved to a larger double fronted shop on corner of next street. Brooklin St or some similar name. I know nothing more about the shop except that it became a chip shop about 1954. I had left Coventry by that time as I was receiving training at the Coal Board workshops at Ansley Common two days a week and Newdigates for the rest of the week.

Brooklyn Road, NormanC - great for a view of Cash's across the canal

My wife insists in 63 there was an eng' factory on the corner of Matlock Road and she worked there as a secretary for a short time, so the tele shop must have been next door to the factory. I can't remember what was there.

Kaga. Sorry but there never was an engineering factory corner of Matlock Rd. On the corner was chip shop with its own back garden then a couple of semi detached. Then came the engineering works. On the other side was Courtaulds car park. Take a look at the picture above. That factory extended right through to Brooklyn Rd. No idea what the set up is now.

Norman C, I believe you, the picture shows it, but hey I'm a coward so if my wife says it was on the corner, then it's on the corner, and I'm out of here on this one.

I remember my eldest son going into that works when he had managed to escape from the back garden. When recaptured I asked him what they had said to him in the factory, he replied that they had told him to "**** off". He was about three at the time.

Courtesy of The Coventry I Remember FB page

Plenty of mentions of Riddy's around post 72 of this thread

Thanks Cliff - just wasn't sure if that photo had been on here before.

So whereabouts in Coventry was this Lyons store in 1967: "On This Day 19th June 1967" Also if the picture was taken on 19th June 1967, why does it say 1970 on the bicycle?

Because for some reason it was manufactured from 1965! Triang

Thanks Anne That just leaves the location of the store to be revealed.

That photo brings back memories, a Moulton 1970 was my first new bike. I can't recall it being badged as a Triang though.