dutchman
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Sun 23rd Oct 2011 2:50pm
By the way, that white space on the corner of Bond Street and Ryley Street did not belong to Glenn's but was a garage and warehouse belong to "W.O. Davis" of Hill Street. Shortly after I left the area in 1960 it was demolished in stages and became Bentley's used car sales lot.
This poor quality photostat taken from public records is a view of Bentley's taken from outside the Town Wall Tavern. It is part of a collection of pictures used in a planning dispute between the council and the owners. It appears to show a solitary private dwelling in Ryley Street but I was not aware of any residents in that part of the street at the time:
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dutchman
Spon End
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Mon 24th Oct 2011 12:14am
A view of Glenn's rebuilt factory taken from the same file as the one above. The lorry entrance and the window above it are the only things visible on the Bond Street side. The factory was still only a few years old when the picture was taken, the warehouse to the left of it has been demolished and the overspill from Bentley's sale room is annoying the planning authorities.
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TonyS
Coventry
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Mon 24th Oct 2011 7:33pm
On 22nd Oct 2011 1:05pm, DBC said:
Yes, it was Robinsons crisps, and I seem to remember they had a "three spires" logo on their packets
And they were supplied to the shops in big TINS - measuring about 12 inches square and 15 inches tall. (probably had about 48 packets in them?)
No idea what sort of "recycling" went on to get the tins back. I recall my father bringing a "tin of crisps" home every now and again. Always Robinsons - with the three spires picture on the packets. He used to make a point of telling us that they were "Made in Coventry"!
I also recall "Niblets" (or a name similar to that) I used to love those
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urchin
Warwick
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Thu 23rd Feb 2012 10:11am
On 21st Oct 2011 10:28pm, Greg said:
Wasn`t the crisp factory (can`t remember their name, possibly Robinsons) somewhere around Gas St?
In my misspent youth, the owner and his wife used to drink in the Gas Club when I went there with friends who worked for the `Gas Board`.
I used to buy crisp scratching from the crisp factory behind my school yard (St Johns, Dover Street) |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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Thu 23rd Feb 2012 4:41pm
Hello Urchin & welcome
I think that you & I might have had the same name at one point, as I can remember my mum calling me that sixty years ago. Best wishes for a happy time with us here. |
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Foxcote
Warwick
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Mon 10th Sep 2012 8:27pm
On 24th Oct 2011 7:33pm, TonyS said:
I also recall "Niblets" (or a name similar to that) I used to love those
When you say 'Niblets', what do you mean, were they liquorice? |
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TonyS
Coventry
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Mon 10th Sep 2012 10:27pm
No Foxcote, Niblets were very similar to modern-day "French Fries" - not a potato stick, more of a corn type snack. |
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Foxcote
Warwick
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Tue 11th Sep 2012 7:09am
I was thinking of 'Negroids' little black bits of liquorice, the singers used them. I think they changed the name Little Imps or something like that. Could have a whole new topic on 'Sweets', Gobstoppers, Flying Saucers, Liquorice Wood and that pretend tobacco was weird wasn't it. I always had an edible 'Smoking Set' for Christmas, wouldn't be allowed now or else a 'Post Office Set' or 'Sweet Shop Set', they seemed so magic how they were packaged. Never had a Chemistry Set though, I bet some of the blokes on this have blown up a few sheds in their time with one |
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sally watson
coventry
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Tue 11th Sep 2012 9:55am
On 23rd Feb 2012 10:11am, urchin said:
On 21st Oct 2011 10:28pm, Greg said:
Wasn`t the crisp factory (can`t remember their name, possibly Robinsons) somewhere around Gas St?
In my misspent youth, the owner and his wife used to drink in the Gas Club when I went there with friends who worked for the `Gas Board`.
I used to buy crisp scratching from the crisp factory behind my school yard (St Johns, Dover Street)
I also use to get the crisp scratchings from the same factory,the children who used to go to school from the spon street entrance used to throw stones over a wall separating our courtyard from the path they took to school,does anyone remember the name of the crisp factory? just to add,the broken crisps were 1penny a bag! (bargain!)
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mick
coventry
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Fri 14th Sep 2012 2:12pm
I recall a crisp factory in Stephen Street - now on the site of the Fire Station. |
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argon
New Milton
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Sat 15th Sep 2012 6:06pm
I believe that there was a crisp maker somewhere by the Empress Buildings in Binley Road in the late '50s, early '60s. There was a local maker called Riley's but I cannot remember where it was. |
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DW
Wigan
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Wed 22nd May 2013 6:23pm
My uncle and aunt lived in the last terraced house in Stephen Street, next to the crisp factory. I remember well the crisps with the blue bag of salt inside. They were compulsorily purchased to make way for the ring road and moved to a sheltered bungalow in Radford. My uncle, I remember, was before his retirement a salesman for "Dainty's", a confection of chocolate encased creamy stuff with coconut flakes on the chocolate. Anyone remember them?
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Sat 25th May 2013 3:02pm
You can still get dolly mixtures in the UK. There are a lot of sweet shops now selling old fashioned sweets. They have the big jars on the shelves like they used to. My favourite is licquorice torpedoes (comfits). I worked in the Candy Box in Jubilee Crescent when I was 14 and they were the only sweets I used to nibble when no one was looking. I still like them 50 years later. |
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dutchman
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Sat 25th May 2013 4:31pm
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morgana
the secret garden
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Mon 10th Jun 2013 12:06pm
I used to work in the office for a small Coventry firm which is no longer there, it was on Quinton Road, called Pistons Ltd, it used to make pistons and piston rings, does any one remember it? Two brothers owned it, their name was Parsons.
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