
Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 691 of 742 Sat 26th Jan 2019 10:16pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1185 A scene once familiar to many!
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3Spires Leicestershire All posts by this member | 692 of 742 Wed 20th Mar 2019 5:42pm Member: Joined Apr 2018 Total posts:36 Just rediscovered these photos of a painting of Princess Elizabeth opening the New Broadgate 1948 (photos taken at a reception at the Council House, Jan 2008).
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 693 of 742 Sat 13th Apr 2019 1:32pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1185 ![]() |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 694 of 742 Sat 13th Apr 2019 5:32pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3202 Prof,
That photo had to be taken on the Friday afternoon, because a delayed bomb went off across the road in Burton's as they were about to clear this site in the morning, they had just received a message the King would arrive early Saturday.
That's a very clear shot of the bomb crater as they were still damping down what was left of the two corner buildings between Broadgate and Martins Bank. The fire brigade scraped round that corner to get into High Street, as Little and Much Park Streets were still burning furiously on the Friday. |
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 695 of 742 Tue 23rd Apr 2019 11:10pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1185 After the IRA bomb exploded.
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 696 of 742 Mon 27th May 2019 1:17pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4209 Hi all ![]() |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 697 of 742 Tue 28th May 2019 5:48pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3202 Prof,
Once again I butt in - my apologies - but the photo above reminds me that we once had a view of Hertford Street but not anymore. The clock you mention also is a poor imitation of the one that stood in the Mayor's Parlour.
The old Mayor's Parlour stood opposite Cross Cheaping, an ancient building of three storeys, with a room in the roof. In front on the ground floor were six stone pillars supporting a balcony and iron railing, the upper floor projected and overhung the wall of the storey below. The roof was lineable with the street, and out of it sprang a wooden gabled projection in which there was a clock.
Two wooden figures then attached to the mechanism by means of iron rods, moved backwards and forwards and struck the halves and quarters. The figures represented the city crier and beadle, and were painted with red and green coats in allusion to the heraldic colours of the ground of the city arms.
Pigeons swooped through the archways then, and I feel I am unravelling time as it swoops through my mind. |
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 698 of 742 Fri 31st May 2019 2:03pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1185 There is a good illustration of the Mayor's Parlour with the clock as described by Kaga in Frederick Smith's "Nine Hundred Years of Municipal Life." Smith was for many years Town Clerk of Coventry, I have a picture taken with scan from the book but it will not upload for some unknown reason.
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 699 of 742 Fri 31st May 2019 2:57pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1598 Is it this one Prof? (Found in "Rob's pics", blue button above.)
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 700 of 742 Fri 31st May 2019 3:39pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3202 Yes that's the one, you can see the clockwork in the roof, but they just came out and back in, not round like today's. |
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 701 of 742 Fri 31st May 2019 7:39pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1185 Yes Annewiggy/Kaga. I don't know why I could not upload the picture, but perhaps because it was a scan! |
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 704 of 742 Fri 7th Jun 2019 5:32pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1185 Now that the Hertford St bridge is open again for a view of Broadgate it is interesting to see what the view was in 1892 (this has appeared elsewhere)
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 705 of 742 Fri 7th Jun 2019 5:46pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1185 Here's another with policeman!
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