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Image 1) Webster's brickworks - c.1976 - I notice there is Forum discussion on Websters. I should add, - just found 'History in Brick' - by W. Hopley. Typewritten account. A study of the brick making industry in Coventry. (Coventry & District Archaeological Society - Industrial Section.) 1976
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 2 of 23 Tue 22nd Oct 2013 2:56pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4127 Hi & thank you, Covjb35 ![]() |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 3 of 23 Tue 22nd Oct 2013 3:22pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:860 Image no 6 looks like the Smith Street entrance to the Ordnance Works. I remember the shell casings on top of the gate pillars ![]() Milly rules |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 4 of 23 Tue 22nd Oct 2013 3:59pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5193 On 22nd Oct 2013 3:12pm, Covjb35 said:
This shows the remains of the Foleshill Railway where it crossed Kingfield Road, close to Courtaulds main works site - the chimneys are both part of Courtaulds, the one on the right of the photo was the tallest in England when built in 1923, the one on the left remains in situ, although only the bottom part of it (a stump!) - see below ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 5 of 23 Tue 22nd Oct 2013 5:13pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:860 The Smith Street entrance is now number 8. Image 3 is the train 'Henry'? ![]() ![]() Milly rules |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 6 of 23 Tue 22nd Oct 2013 5:46pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5193 On 22nd Oct 2013 2:48pm, Covjb35 said:
Image 8) This one is marked 'Industrial Railway, where?' - 1976
No 8 - correct, Norm (courtesy Google Maps)
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 7 of 23 Tue 22nd Oct 2013 6:03pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5193 On 22nd Oct 2013 2:48pm, Covjb35 said:
Image 10) Pump House, Hawkesbury - 1976
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mn757 Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 23 Tue 22nd Oct 2013 8:45pm Member: Joined Dec 2011 Total posts:26 Great photos Covjb35, thanks for posting ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 9 of 23 Wed 23rd Oct 2013 9:53am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5193 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 10 of 23 Wed 23rd Oct 2013 10:09am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5193 On 22nd Oct 2013 2:48pm, Covjb35 said:
Image 7) This slide is simply marked, 'Foleshill Railway, approach' - 1970's
This is the line of the railway from Smith Street/Wharf Street as it approached Stoney Stanton Road (behind the photographer), at what is now Aintree Close
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 11 of 23 Wed 23rd Oct 2013 10:33am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5193 On 22nd Oct 2013 2:48pm, Covjb35 said:
Image 4) The slide is marked, 'Dunlop Building - Alma St. - 1976
Very different now! (apart from the pub!)
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Longford Lad Langen, Germany All posts by this member | 12 of 23 Wed 23rd Oct 2013 10:59am Member: Joined Jul 2013 Total posts:28 Covjb35,
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Disorganised1 Coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 23 Thu 24th Oct 2013 1:16am Member: Joined Nov 2012 Total posts:215 'Henry' was sitting there when I worked for Courtaulds back in 1975-78. I used to park at the top of the site and walk past him each day. The photo looks like it was taken from the canal towpath. |
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Covjb35 Aberdare All posts by this member Thread starter | 14 of 23 Thu 24th Oct 2013 11:36am Member: Joined Oct 2013 Total posts:23 This group of photographs follows on from my previous 10 images. Again I will number the entries which should correspond with the photograph numbers; I will comment on the photographs as I go along.
11) This is the footbridge at Hawkesbury, shot taken around 1976.
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 15 of 23 Thu 24th Oct 2013 7:04pm Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:882 Some fascinating pictures. I was looking at some old maps recently, and there were some railway lines connected to the network in various places around the city, including Hawkesbury and also near the canal basin area. Also some tramways around Wyken as well, and an extra canal loop (I think) that must have been filled in years ago. In his book on Warwickshire Pevsner describes the Wyken area as being cluttered with old industrial remains and unused railway tracks.
Thanks for the pictures. The Rudge works looks immense. In cities like Manchester and London buildings like these have been converted into apartment blocks/shops/etc. Lots of windows. In an alternate universe there's probably an alternative version of Coventry in which I spend my 20s living in a penthouse apartment up there overlooking the city centre.
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