Shops of yore

Perrys was the camera shop. I still wear my old boy's scarf (purchased 1964) from the men's shop next door but can't remember it's name.

Or was it Perrys and Sturman? Vince

Your second answer is the one that has stirred my grey cells, though perhaps the fluorescent sign over the doorway may have just said Perry because the full name wouldn't fit. I did buy a Mamiya sub-miniature camera from them. Using 16mm film for still pictures was never going to be a great success. Later I was to experience a Minox B sub-miniature but, no matter the beautiful engineering, it was the film which let that down too: my old Brownie 127 gave sharper images - but by then I'd used a Rolleiflex T (standard army issue) and a Leica M4 (NATO HQ issue). I did work at Tile Hill Pharmacy for about 3 weeks but it persuaded me that I didn't want to be a camera salesman.

Dutchman; Aubrey Hill used to have a shop in the arcade sold sporting goods and toys. He also had a shop on the bridge on Lockhurst Lane. I remember buying Subbuteo teams in there in the arcade, but I think he sold the shops to someone else when he retired.

Thanks Disorganised, that sounds very much like it

Hi all How many shops do we have in Coventry, where without much imagination, the clock could be put back fifty years & we would not notice? Next time any of you are in the vicinity of the lower precinct, try walking into the Co-op on from the entrance off the high walkway. I did it yesterday, both entering & leaving. It is so period, that I could almost see Molly Sudgden, (Mrs Slowcome) in "Are you being served" or Cpt Peacock suddenly appearing. What fun!

I always used to have trouble in the Coop working out how to get from the Lower Precinct entrance to the Corporation Street side. A lot of old Coops are the same when they have expanded in to joining buildings. Tamworth Coop are just about joining the 21st century but they seem to be going the way of filling it with franchises.

LOL, Philip. I know exactly what you mean. I worked in the drapery department as a warehouseman there for 3 months before going into the army in 1962. In those days the ground floor was haberdashery, towels and curtains; first floor was ladies underwear and hosiery, and second floor was ladies fashions. Seeing that I might go up in the world I became lift attendant on Saturdays Annewiggy - the connection between the two stores was at 1st floor level. It was done like that so that vehicles could go from Fleet St(?) and come out in Corporation Street next to Agers shoe shop. The access also provided servicing to shops that side of Smithford Way and all shops on north side of the Lower Precinct.

Hi everyone, my mothers last name is Glenn and her father, my Pa grew up in Coventry when it was being bombed during the war. His family owned the Glenn Sweet Shop. My Pa's name is James (Jim) Glenn. He told me that the shop was destroyed during the war. Does anyone have any photos that I can give to my Pa. he is almost 90 and very fit and healthy though Would love to see an old photo of the shop. He moved to Australia after serving on KGV during the war. I live on the Gold Coast in Australia. Best regards Conan

Hello & welcome Cbland10 Let us hope that between our local Coventry membership, & our members who now live in Australia, that something can come of this.

Do you know of its location in Coventry?

In 1911 there is a Thomas Alfred Glenn, sugar confectioner at 40 Cross Cheaping. They have several children who are all working with him.

1935 Telephone Directory - Glenn & Co Ltd, Confectioners, Bond Street 1939 shows it at no.53 This was posted on the CWN Guestbook in 2000 [24 JAN 00] GLENN & Co I am researching my family - Glenn's of Coventry. My father was Eric Glenn (1908 - 1959), son of Thomas Herbert Glenn and Mary Alice Bailey. If anyone has any information about the family, the confectionery factory in Bond Street with shops in Hales Street, The Burges and Cross Cheaping which dated from circa 1880 until late 1950s I would be pleased to hear. Janet Keefe [n

Are you a relation of Cbland10 from the Gold Coast who joined the forum earlier today, same topic ?

My dad, Len Trinder, worked here before World War 2. He was away for five years with the Warwickshire Yeomanry and then returned to manage the shop. He became a partner in the 50's and the shop became Trinder and Lawrence. He bought out the remaining partner, Ernie Lawrence, and ran the business until he retired at the age of 68 in 1988. Ernie lived in a bungalow in Stoke Park and was a lovely old chap. They had the main branch of AA and ER Lawrence in White Street, near the Swanswell, which was demolished to make way for Coventry ring road. My dad died four years ago just short of his 90th birthday.