Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 1 of 47 Sun 30th Jun 2013 6:24pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:906 Water pumps were such a necessity in the old days. I wonder whether more could be spotted in the old photographs, the design on the pump linked here looks a familiar design on other 'pillars' that I have seen of old pictures around the town (minus the spout).
Water Pump, Pool Meadow
This is what I thought was the same shape top...
Little Park Street/St. John Street
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 2 of 47 Mon 1st Jul 2013 2:54am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3379 Great old black and whites Foxcote. I was drawn to the house in the background in Little Park St., it looked old then so I can only imagine what it looked like inside. There must have been water pumps all round Coventry in that era, first I have seen shown though without a trough. ![]() ![]() |
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rehydratecoventry coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 47 Mon 29th Jan 2018 3:37pm Member: Joined Jan 2018 Total posts:7 I want to create a list of the disused drinking fountains around Coventry, with a view to getting them restored and turned on again.
Do you know of any? Even better have you got any pictures of their current/former state?
They have restored the one in Earlsdon by the Memorial Park, and we want to get them to restore/install new ones across the city.
Thanks for any help.
We are starting the campaign today and we welcome any help offered!
We are on twitter @hydrationstati3 and email via the contact button
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 4 of 47 Mon 29th Jan 2018 7:02pm Member: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:1698 The only drinking fountain I know of was the one that stood outside St John's. Very fancy affair.
While I love tap water, I wouldn't want to drink from a drinking fountain unless it could be protected from people accidentally or deliberately contaminating it. A foot trigger rather than a handle would be better too. But offering more hydration gets my thumbs up. ![]() ![]() |
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coventry49 Devon All posts by this member | 5 of 47 Mon 29th Jan 2018 8:49pm Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:191 I think there may have been an old one in Stoke Green, somewhere near the paddling pool and a more modern one inside the Memorial Park, one you had to put your mouth over and get a face full! |
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OldCaludonian Peak District All posts by this member | 6 of 47 Mon 29th Jan 2018 9:54pm Member: Joined Aug 2016 Total posts:13 You perhaps know of the water trough erected by the Coventry Chain Company on Hearsall Common as a memorial to the 47 employees who died in Great War. The actual trough has been lost but the impressive 'tower' has been re-erected in Spon End. See the Coventry Society website.
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coventry49 Devon All posts by this member | 7 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 9:31am Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:191 Speaking of troughs - there was a Victorian horse trough on the London Road, at the bottom of the common not far from the end of Daventry Road in the direction of the city centre. I know it was still there in the 1950s/60s. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 8 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 11:51am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5467 Cattle trough, Stoke Green - 15 Jul 2013
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 12:28pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2406 Rob 'saved' this pair from the Council Library collection -
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 10 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 1:42pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5467 Top one looks like Priory Street, with the Art School in the background
No sign of any bus shelters in Pool Meadow though ![]() |
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Ronald34 coventry All posts by this member | 11 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 1:43pm Member: Joined Dec 2017 Total posts:8 There used to be a horse drinking trough in Queen's Road, not far from Percy Blamire's garage. It may have been removed when the tram lines were taken up. |
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rehydratecoventry coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 8:17pm Member: Joined Jan 2018 Total posts:7 Thanks for all the help so far!
If you can think of any others please let us know. |
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Garlands Joke Shop Coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 8:28pm Member: Joined Feb 2014 Total posts:225 On 30th Jan 2018 1:43pm, Ronald34 said:
There used to be a horse drinking trough in Queen's Road, not far from Percy Blamire's garage. It may have been removed when the tram lines were taken up.
Is this the drinking fountain/trough you're referring to? This water fountain/trough is dedicated to Caroline (Cara) Bray (1814-1905) and her husband Charles Bray (1811-1884).
Here is another view of the trough from the side.
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Ronald34 coventry All posts by this member | 14 of 47 Tue 30th Jan 2018 11:40pm Member: Joined Dec 2017 Total posts:8 I don't ever recall it looking so good as the photo. Although I cannot believe there could have been two so close together. |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 15 of 47 Wed 31st Jan 2018 7:36am Member: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:1698 Not the same thing as drinking fountains but I know where some of the hand pumps (like the picture above), conduits and wells were. If they're of interest? |
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