NormK
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Sat 5th Mar 2016 8:17pm
If the sandstone rocks you mentioned were on Bell Green Road, then yes they are still there.
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Gas Centre
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Sat 5th Mar 2016 8:51pm
Longford Lad
Re: Scrambles
NormanC and myself remember entering the site from Blackhorse Road and yourself from Bayton Road, it is probably as you said we are talking about different dates. I think it was about 57/58 when I used to go there.
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wizard76
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Sun 6th Mar 2016 1:17am
Thanks NormK, Its good to know its still there, the last time I was around that part of Bell Green I had a Saturday morning job pointing up an old family Crip down the churchyard. It must be 60 yrs ago. Now that makes me feel old. |
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Norman Conquest
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Sun 6th Mar 2016 12:08pm
Our house was next door to the Bell Hotel. Yes the rocks are still there as confirmed above. I know it was wicked but a prank that my pal Brian and I played was like this. We would sit at the top of the rocks with a pocket full of washers. When a cyclist came past we would throw a few on the road behind him. Never failed, the cyclist would dismount and search the road to see what had fallen of his bike. Another evil prank we played was on my uncle. He had a garden shed full of bird cages and an assortment of birds occupied the cages. Brian and I would squint through a crack in the woodwork at the back of the shed when he was cleaning the cages then make scratching noises on the woodwork. Uncle Fred would say to me "I know there are rats or mice in the shed, I can hear them scratching but I cant catch them"
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LongfordLad
Toronto
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Sun 6th Mar 2016 10:48pm
On 5th Mar 2016 8:51pm, Gas Centre said:
Longford Lad
Re: Scrambles
NormanC and myself remember entering the site from Blackhorse Road and yourself from Bayton Road, it is probably as you said we are talking about different dates. I think it was about 57/58 when I used to go there.
I'm sure you are right, though I must allow as how I would have been watching the scrambles there around 1960, just a short time later. No matter where precisely it was, however, I'm sure we all had great times. |
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Heathite
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Sat 26th Mar 2016 9:07am
Tusses Bridge, Longford and Walsgrave listing in Cov directory 1935.
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Heathite
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Sat 26th Mar 2016 9:11am
Sephton's, all, Cov directory 1935. |
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Heathite
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Sat 26th Mar 2016 9:16am
Alderman's Green Road extract Coventry directory 1935.
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Heathite
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Sat 26th Mar 2016 9:19am
Alderman's Green Road extract 2, Coventry directory 1935.
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David H
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Sat 26th Mar 2016 10:03pm
On 5th Mar 2016 8:51pm, Gas Centre said:
Longford Lad
Re: Scrambles
NormanC and myself remember entering the site from Blackhorse Road and yourself from Bayton Road, it is probably as you said we are talking about different dates. I think it was about 57/58 when I used to go there.
I think the scrambling track you are referring to bordered (or was located on) the area I used to play on as a child known locally as "the banks". This area was eventually partly built on and some of it became the now-closed golf course which remains as open land. This land was accessible both from Blackhorse Road and Bayton Road. It was (and is) bordered on the east by the Coventry canal and on the west by the railway. In the 1950's and early 60's we used to go down Bayton Road and passed through the arch under the railway embankment where Stephenson Road is today. This led out onto the banks. |
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Kaga simpson
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Sun 27th Mar 2016 5:50pm
Heathite, thank you for those lists, very interesting for me, I can remember most of the names, and the kids that lived in those houses, but of course there are a lot of gaps that I don't understand why they are not listed. And 1935 was the year my age group split up from the little school to go to different schools about the city.
Midland Red, the list of names on post 582, if you scroll down to 248 Cartwright you shouldn't be 'stumped' to recognize that County name. |
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Sun 27th Mar 2016 6:01pm
Kaga, is that his father, as TWC wasn't born till that year (1935)?  |
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Kaga simpson
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Sun 27th Mar 2016 6:19pm
Midland Red. Oh yes, his father, but I think there were three kids, but he got the 'Tommy' name after his dad. |
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FairView
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Wed 30th Mar 2016 6:36pm
On 15th Dec 2014 9:31pm, cherrypicker said:
I grew up next to the brick yard, I lived at No 8 Union Place (off Sydnall Road) next to the Baptist chapel (1960-1970). Union Place led to the rear entrance of the brickyard. The brickyard main entrance was about where Oban Road starts now on Sydnall Road. The brickyard (including the clay pit) stretched from Sydnall Road almost to the Bedworth Road. There were several brick kilns, four chimneys and an engine house complete with steam engine. If I remember correctly there was a concrete works on the canal side of the Bedworth Road next to Dowty Engineering with a small part on the opposite side of the road next to the railway bridge. The brickyard was closed and taken over by Gallifords who set up a company called Factory Waste Disposals. This firm was the first company to use skips and the claypit was used for land fill. The brickyard explosives shack was situated about 50 yards down from the rear of the chapel. Opposite the chapel was waste land with a pig sty in the far right corner owned by a chap called Jack Davis.
I've just found this forum and growing up in Longford, I thought it fitting my first post should be in this topic. You grew up in Union Place you say? Can I ask what time frame, and if you have any memory of the Beddows that also lived in Union Place in the late 60's > early 70's? I ask because our back garden (from Bedworth Rd where we lived) backed onto theirs and some derelict garages beside the Church. I'd like to know what happen to young "Billy" after his nan died.
I remember the pig sty (made a den in there), and I have to assume the Brick Factory is what I remember as "the tip". This whole topic takes me back to sunnier times. |
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Wed 30th Mar 2016 7:53pm
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