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Annewiggy
Tamworth
916 of 941  Tue 14th Jun 2022 7:57pm  

The name of the street seems to have changed several times, MR, at first Market Street South but later as we knew it as Market Way. In the newspaper in the later 1950's they stop saying also in City Arcade, so I think the reason for the sale in the 1955 picture would be the final throws of the shop there, so I agree MR it must be the City Arcade shop.
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Helen F
Warrington
917 of 941  Tue 14th Jun 2022 8:55pm  

Helen starts to cry in confusion.... The City Arcade had squared corners. The Stones on the corner of Market Street had a shaved corner like the photo. If it is the City Arcade, the buildings would be south Fleet Street? Can we match them? I have matched them to Fleet Street. So it is the City Arcade. Neil was right to question the location. BFA
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
918 of 941  Tue 14th Jun 2022 9:27pm  

This is the one in Market Street/Market Way, Helen
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NeilsYard
Coventry
919 of 941  Wed 15th Jun 2022 2:47pm  

Good work all Double thumbs up
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Earlsdon Kid
Argyll & Bute, Scotland
920 of 941  Thu 16th Jun 2022 9:40pm  

Better shots of Hyde's Stores, Providence Street, following up on my earlier post! JohnnieWalker, not "LOG10" but "LOG30", no doubt also of interest to mathematicians! Cheers
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bk
Coventry
921 of 941  Thu 8th Sep 2022 2:00pm  

Lovely one of a fantastic building that is sadly nothing like this now: Smith's Carpets, Market Way
b p kyneswood

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NeilsYard
Coventry
922 of 941  Thu 8th Sep 2022 3:12pm  

It became overwhelmed by the building of Coventry Point. Note you can just see the edge of The Market Tavern on the right.
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bk
Coventry
923 of 941  Thu 6th Oct 2022 4:25pm  

Couple of images of the front of Phillips hardware, Hillfields, taken in 1975 by Victor Burgin for the CDP project.
b p kyneswood

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Mick Strong
Coventry
924 of 941  Thu 6th Oct 2022 6:16pm  

When I started my apprenticeship with Wickman, I had to turn up on the first day with a 6" steel rule. Bought mine from Phillips
Mick Strong

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NeilsYard
Coventry
925 of 941  Fri 3rd Feb 2023 3:02pm  

Great to see this pic of Robinson's this morning on FB. I always bought my 'surprise' Valentine's bunches of flowers from there! You could smell the flowers right along the ramp. That spot was a bit of a muggers' paradise at night though!
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Prof
Gloucester
926 of 941  Sun 5th Feb 2023 10:52pm  

Neil, did you know the lady who ran the shop in the 50s-60s? She was Mrs Pierce, our next door neighbour in Momus Boulevard.
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argon
New Milton
927 of 941  Fri 6th Oct 2023 8:28pm  

Does anyone remember the two shops on opposite sides of the Oldfield Rd / Billing Rd junction? As I remember one was a grocers, Strides, and the other was, according to my wife, another grocers, Lee. The name Lee is familiar but I can't think if it was another grocer. I am talking about 1955.
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Helen F
Warrington
928 of 941  Sat 7th Oct 2023 9:43am  

Hi argon, it's a very complicated junction. Courtesy of Heathite and his directories in 1955 - at 2 Billing Road was William J Lee and Earnest Ashby, it doesn't say what business they were. Number 2 Billing Road was just behind 113 Oldfield Road. At 112 Oldfield Road there was a G H Stride Grocer. At 109 there was a butcher Jack S Farrell. At 110 there was a taxi service Charles R Gould.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
929 of 941  Sat 7th Oct 2023 11:26am  

2 Billing Road seems to be a general store. In the 1940's Lees are advertising tobacco and cigarettes and also looking for a lad for the milk round. There are different people in the 1960's and advertise as a grocers just opening a wines and spirits department.
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argon
New Milton
930 of 941  Sat 7th Oct 2023 2:23pm  

Thank you both for the research, I remember Strides as my mother used to send me for goods on occasion. I have a vague recollection of Lee's but don't remember using it. The butcher I have no memory of at all. We used to go up Billing Rd often as my parents had friends there, the Pleydells, who had a sweet stall in the market.
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