Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 196 of 205 Wed 29th Jul 2020 8:29am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3565 Why wouldn't it have been part of Owen Owen’s basement in 1937?
In fact why not the basement in Neil’s photo in post #178? |
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scrutiny coventry All posts by this member | 197 of 205 Wed 29th Jul 2020 10:20am Member: Joined Feb 2010 Total posts:678 Not all bricks had a frog in them, some had holes and others were still solid. When I built my first house in the early seventies all the bricks were solid, hell of a job to cut to length. ![]() |
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Slim Another Coventry kid All posts by this member | 198 of 205 Wed 29th Jul 2020 11:06am Member: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:711 That's right. I seem to remember the cheaper commons (light pink colour) having frogs, whereas the darker engineering bricks generally had 3 off 1" dia holes. I think the blues were solid. I'm going back to when I was a little boy and the builders were building a new garage because the old wooden one was rotten and falling down. |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 199 of 205 Thu 30th Jul 2020 9:01am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3565 The brickwork looks as if it might be the part of the outside wall of the 1937 Owen Owens in Trinity Street, running south to north. |
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Gumnut Moruya NSW Australia All posts by this member | 200 of 205 Thu 30th Jul 2020 9:08am Member: Joined Jun 2014 Total posts:60 On 29th Jul 2020 11:06am, Slim said:
That's right. I seem to remember the cheaper commons (light pink colour) having frogs, whereas the darker engineering bricks generally had 3 off 1" dia holes. I think the blues were solid. I'm going back to when I was a little boy and the builders were building a new garage because the old wooden one was rotten and falling down.
The solid (hard and heavy) blue bricks are a damp course brick, from my memory they were completely solid. Coventry bricks (general use) had frogs, ive cleaned up thousands of them for my bricklayer father. They are far better than the new wire cut bricks, drop them and they break! |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 201 of 205 Thu 30th Jul 2020 9:11am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5118 On 30th Jul 2020 9:01am, Kaga simpson said:
The brickwork looks as if it might be the part of the outside wall of the 1937 Owen Owens in Trinity Street, running south to north.
This shows the footprint of the store
On 17th Dec 2013 5:20pm, deanocity3 said:
Owen Owen basement 1946
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PeterB Mount Nod All posts by this member | 202 of 205 Sat 1st Aug 2020 7:21pm Member: Joined May 2014 Total posts:304 Thank you for all your comments. I went back to have a closer look at the bricks, but the hole has now been filled in. I am personally convinced that it was part of Owen Owen as the location is right and I don't think anything previous to Owen Owen would have been that substantial (the wall is ~18" thick).
Peter. |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 203 of 205 Sun 2nd Aug 2020 10:16am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3565 Peter B
Yes, Peter, what other building could it have been? Had they have moved just a few inches south they would have found a time tin, this tin had many coins of 1950 era placed and buried in the foundations of the modern Owen Owen’s. |
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20A-Manor House Coventry All posts by this member | 204 of 205 Fri 25th Dec 2020 12:12am Member: Joined Apr 2020 Total posts:149 ![]() |
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lindatee2002 Virginia USA All posts by this member | 205 of 205 Fri 25th Dec 2020 4:33pm Member: Joined Apr 2015 Total posts:78 Welcome 20-A Manor House. I love this button. I live in Virginia but when I go home I miss not seeing Owen Owens on Broadgate. We weren't well off but there was always enough to visit Santa. I used to love those kids Post Office sets and always wrote him a letter and put it in the real post box in our street.
Merry Christmas to all and a Better New Year! |
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