
TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 36 Fri 26th Aug 2011 7:10pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1556 Not a very good photo I'm afraid.....
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 2 of 36 Fri 26th Aug 2011 7:20pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1556 ![]() |
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JohnB Wokingham, Berkshire All posts by this member | 3 of 36 Mon 29th Aug 2011 3:55pm Member: Joined Aug 2011 Total posts:48 Was there an "Exchange & Mart" next to the Alhambra when I was a kid? I used to look in there with wonderment at all of the bargains & also at the airguns in the window
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19FoleshillRd Allesley All posts by this member | 4 of 36 Mon 29th Aug 2011 4:35pm Member: Joined Apr 2011 Total posts:32 Yes you're right John. I remember selling my Mamod steam engine to E&M for 10/-. When I got home and told my dad, he gave me a thick ear 'cos he'd bought it for my birthday two months before and it cost him £1/19/6d. I saw it in the window of E&M next day for £1! ![]() If all else fails, read the instructions! |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 5 of 36 Mon 12th Sep 2011 3:00am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:1707 Yes I used to check out the bargains in E&M, and The Alhambra was first stop from catching the bus into Pool Meadow on a Saturday Night for us. That whole area behind which has now been opened up behind New Buildings (where Nando's is now etc.) was completely hidden / cut-off in the 70's/80's |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 6 of 36 Fri 31st May 2013 8:59am Moderator: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1556 Thanks for that Neil. Whenever I went onto town in my youth (which was most Saturday mornings) I would always pop into E&M to have a browse. Never bought anything (always seemed overpriced for what they sold) but it was great to look! |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 7 of 36 Fri 31st May 2013 9:01am Moderator: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1556 Before and after!
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 36 Fri 31st May 2013 9:04am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:1707 Yes Tony - I still feel guilt over that unwanted family Christmas present Microscope I sold in E&M!
That route was my walk into town after coming in from Pool Meadow on a Saturday night. First stop The Alahambra.
I also recall spending my early misspent teens running up and down what was a fairly complex set of covered corridors to get up to the view on top of that car park at the bottom! |
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Memories Of Coventry Coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 36 Sat 1st Jun 2013 12:50am Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:26 Some New Buildings photo's that have been uploaded onto my facebook page Memories Of Coventry
The Exchange & Mart in New Buildings in the 1980s
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 10 of 36 Sun 24th Jan 2016 7:31am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:1707 Just to follow the other images in this one - a view looking the other way
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 11 of 36 Sun 24th Jan 2016 6:27pm Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:844 Where did this street go before they built that car park at the bottom (now gone)?
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 12 of 36 Sun 24th Jan 2016 6:35pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3947 Hi Flapdoodle ![]() ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 13 of 36 Sun 24th Jan 2016 8:08pm Member: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:924 Way back, the road split into two. One side going right/east (from the picture above) towards the bottom of Hill Top and the other curving left/north towards the fire station. Originally that area had the river running through it and had a mill on the east side of the road and the mill pond to the west. In the picture below, the mill is on the far left and the road curves up towards the right up the hill towards the Alhambra/Meriden Tavern. The pool either silted up or was filled in and later became a market and is now roughly the Millennium clock area.
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 14 of 36 Sun 24th Jan 2016 8:15pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:3011 This is a view of Fishy Moore's with the Alhambra pub to the right of it. Sainsbury's later occupied the waste ground between New Buildings and Trinity Street:
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 15 of 36 Sun 24th Jan 2016 8:53pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:1707 As mentioned earlier in thread - during the '70's and '80's that car park meant the road disappeared under a gloomy tunnel before coming out to the side of the DeVere at the bottom of Hill Top. It really was dismal and I recall seeing many a strange activity under there after hours (!) The old Blue Coat School was completely hidden during that era. A friend of my sisters had a hairdressers at the top of New Buildings and would cut my hair for cheap. It was only when they excavated the original cathedral ruins behind there that all was revealed to anyone of that era. |
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