JohnnieWalker
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Wed 15th May 2019 9:38pm
On 15th May 2019 11:19am, Not Local said:
JW - Have a look at Google maps for Hob Lane, Berkswell. Find a set of modern barns with distinctive green roofs on the north side of the road. Look down below them and across the other side of the road for a set of buildings set back from the road and with a distinctive 'L' shaped driveway which is light coloured. Image House is the building with three or four cars parked outside (including a red one and a white one).
I actually found the exact location by looking on National Library of Scotland Maps - Side By Side Images. I use the 6 inch maps and then zoom in on the modern side to find what I am looking for - easier to do than to explain.
Hope this helps.
Hi NL - got it, thanks! It's hard to find an angle, from the road view, that matches the image in the earlier post, though.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Thu 16th May 2019 9:29am
The rebuilding of the Coventry Cross at its former original site having fallen through, a committee decided that a marble statue be erected on Greyfriars Green to the memorial of Sir Thomas White in its place, unveiled in 1883 by the mayor A.S. Tomson.
Apart from the images Alderman Brockle removed most of the rubbish from the cross for his garden paths. Cartloads of it, and horses were a source of power in those days - drawing oils painted on gateposts used to stop a horse. Sometimes a donkey would be put in a field to stop them trying to escape, they would not leave without the stubborn donkey.
Horsemen passed on knowledge of plants of value to the treating of illness and diseases, apples sliced and left to rot until infested with antibiotic-carrying fungi treated a lot of horse complaints. Horses were kept at prisons for a time as therapeutic value, they changed a man's character, but costs came in.
There is nothing more beautiful than a meadowland of wild flowers, swallows swooping low to catch the insects, the hum of the hoverflies, dragonflies and bees. All this would have greeted Alderman Brockle at Image House. |
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Not Local
Bedworth
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Thu 16th May 2019 5:34pm
JW - The photograph on Post 72 appears to be a view of the rear of the house which is now somewhat altered by the addition of a modern conservatory. The other window spacing appears to be the same. It must have been taken from the fields at the back, perhaps there was something obstructing the front view or maybe the estate agent thought this view more attractive. All these years later it has given us something to exercise our brains on.
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Prof
Gloucester
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Mon 11th May 2020 9:20am
Have we seen the end of the Coventry Cross? Or will Coventry City of Culture come up trumps?
Anyone know? Any suggestions? |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Mon 11th May 2020 9:42am
Hi Prof - from what I know the bulk of the lower half was destroyed in the removal - the rest is supposed to re-appear closer to the original location (nearer Primark) at some point but given all the current issues and lack of funding for anything I don't think it'll see the light of day for some time |
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Helen F
Warrington
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Mon 11th May 2020 12:14pm
I did wonder if the thing would be severely damaged as they removed it. |
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Prof
Gloucester
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Mon 11th May 2020 1:12pm
The fact that half of it has apparently gone does not augur well for the re-instatement! Typical of Coventry! What's more it was a gift to the city. The flags held by the heraldic beasts snapped off because they were fixed and not allowed to swivel. I also think Godiva is not in the best position. There was all that space surrounding it on the island, so I don't see why it could not have stayed where it was. |
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Prof
Gloucester
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Thu 25th Mar 2021 12:00am
Holy Trinity with Coventry Cross.
Post copied from topic Holy Trinity Church and Bell Tower on 25th Mar 2021 12:24 pm |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Thu 25th Mar 2021 11:58am
I'm still cheesed off they got rid of the Cross even though it was a replica and no news of where they've put the fragments they could only save in pulling it down. |
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Prof
Gloucester
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Thu 25th Mar 2021 9:33pm
In my view, the Coventry Cross was an enhancement to the Conservation Area, and also an untenable reason for its removal! |
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Midland Red
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Wed 26th May 2021 1:22pm
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Wed 26th May 2021 3:01pm
I'll believe it when I see it Cliff. I had heard the lower third was destroyed when they dismantled it. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Wed 26th May 2021 3:27pm
Rob,
Over a dozen old streets have been lost to Coventry centre. Besides the cross you are not ever bringing the old city back, not even as I knew it. These modern signs are not in the same place, wrongly built, and don't have the same intention, so what are you wanting? From what I can see, little notice of this forum will change the council. The modern cross is an invasion of the Cathedral grounds.
The ancient cross was described: "Dazzling to look on when the sun was on it". "No place compares with this city for a most beautiful cross of large dimensions and height, adorned with beautiful statues, figures and sculptures laid out with gold and set out with becoming colours".
Prof,
27th Aug 1771, the council, agreed by the house, that the inhabitants of Cross Cheaping be at liberty and hereby authorised to take down the cross etc. Only a Major Beake saved Coventry's cross in puritan times. Warwick lost their cross to the puritans. |
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Helen F
Warrington
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Wed 26th May 2021 3:27pm
I heard the same Neil. I did wonder if 'selected bits' was code for a rockery built out of the best bits of rubble. |
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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Wed 26th May 2021 10:03pm
On 26th May 2021 3:27pm, Kaga simpson said:
Rob,
Over a dozen old streets have been lost to Coventry centre. Besides the cross you are not ever bringing the old city back, not even as I knew it. These modern signs are not in the same place, wrongly built, and don't have the same intention, so what are you wanting? From what I can see, little notice of this forum will change the council. The modern cross is an invasion of the Cathedral grounds.
Hi Kaga,
What is this in response to? I've not posted anything on this topic since 2018, and it was only a moan about the needless removal, in my opinion, of a pleasant monument. Nobody is talking about bringing the old city back, and nobody on this forum believes that we have any power to change the council (sadly). It's a discussion forum, so we members are simply discussing things that we like or don't like. I'm not quite sure why our expressing an opinion is an issue to you? |
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