NeilsYard
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Mon 24th Mar 2014 3:37am
On 24th Apr 2013 3:41pm, LesMac said:
The building in the background was once a flour mill but when I worked there as a lorry driver it was Goodwin Foster Brown wholesale grocers. Les
This 1983 view from White Street shows the former Goodwin Foster Brown flour mills on the left and Wheatley Street School on the right, with an area of temporary car parking in the foreground. These buildings were completely cleared away shortly afterwards for the construction of Coventry's new bus garage. TBH I cannot recall the buildings really even though I must've wandered past them on my way up to Highfield Road. |
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John Hall
London
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Mon 16th Feb 2015 8:01pm
On 15th Apr 2011 2:50pm, peterw said:
Anyone on here go to Wheatley Street School around about 1950 until 1955 ?
I attended Wheatley Street School (Nursery and Primary) from about 1947 until about 1951. I can't remember the names of any of the teachers but do remember well, like you, the smell of the building, the daily dose of cod liver oil and the camp beds for the daily rest in the nursery. We lived around the corner in Priory Street and I spent many happy hours fishing for sticklebacks in Swanswell Park and playing on the many bomb sites. Happy days. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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Tue 17th Feb 2015 9:14am
Hello & good morning to you John Hall. 
Welcome to our forum. Happy days to you too, from all of us. Thank you for your post. We hope that you enjoy a happy time with us, as you meet up with folks, from far & wide, all with an interest in Coventry. 
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Sat 19th Dec 2015 5:05pm
Heres an interesting view - Mods feel free to move to any more suitable thread but a pre-ring-road image from St Michaels showing the soon to be demolished Ford Street with buildings including the Flour Mills and Wheatley school.
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flapdoodle
Coventry
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Sun 20th Dec 2015 11:14am
That school looks like a great building. Are there any more photographs of it?
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sun 20th Dec 2015 11:20am
Good morning Flapdoodle, there are several lovely pictures of the school earlier in this thread. |
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Prof
Gloucester
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Sat 11th Apr 2020 9:32am
Wheatley St School is where my dad and aunt were educated (?) after Stoke National. Dad left aged 13. It is also where I had to go from Folly Lane to sit the eleven plus examination! |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Wed 8th Jul 2020 11:42am
Thanks to Tony Lay on the Cov memories from the 60's FB page - Chambers & Royal Warwicks Club, Wheatley Street.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Thu 14th Apr 2022 10:06am
Don't think we've seen this one before as it's unusually at the eastern end of Wheatley Street. The junction with Perkins Street on the right. The photographer has their back to the junction with Vine Street. I think the factory on the left was part of an old chemical works which has been mentioned on this thread before.
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bk
Coventry
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Sat 16th Apr 2022 6:22pm
Wheatley Street School on the left. Taken by Richard Sadler, early 1950s.
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lolipop
arley
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Thu 21st Apr 2022 11:55am
Wheatley Street School seems to have been around for "donkeys` years". Don`t know when it was built but my mother, born in 1917, went to Wheatley Street after she left St Marks School on Stoney Stanton Road. The school playground wall was also her garden wall when she lived at 22 George Street.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Thu 21st Apr 2022 12:10pm
Looking through the newspaper, it was built about 1891. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Tue 21st Feb 2023 11:09am
Some images of the school from pre-demolition clippings have surfaced on FB.
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SPUD
COVENTRY
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Tue 7th May 2024 7:08pm
On 12th Feb 2014 2:07pm, Sherlock 65 said:
I think the Wheatley Street School must have had multiple and concurrent users in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
I remember part of the site was used by the Local Education Authority for teaching Asian children who were refugees from Kenya and Uganda (my mother was an English teacher there between 1968 and 1970). The part of the site used for teaching the refugees was called 'The Priory Centre'.
There was also a nursery that I believe was housed in a different part of Wheatley Street School. I attended the nursery between 1968 and 1970 and at this stage it wasn't housed in the 'temporary buildings' that a later 'inmate' has recalled elsewhere in this thread. I remember the ring road was under construction when I was at the nursery and the nursery playground dissolved into a building site (I recall being able to walk through the 'playground' and 'building site' to the subway that now leads from what was the White Street coach park to Pool Meadow).
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Helen F
Warrington
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Tue 7th May 2024 8:14pm
Hi SPUD, welcome to the forum. |
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