DeanSpencer Lutterworth All posts by this member | 1 of 12 Tue 6th Nov 2012 7:43pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:28 My gran lived in Conway Ave, at the bottom of which there was Duggins Lane. I believe that a local blacksmith called George Duggins had his workshop on that lane (presumably called something else), does anyone know the history and what happened to the Duggins family and the old workshop? |
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pat tile hill All posts by this member | 2 of 12 Fri 9th Nov 2012 12:19am Member: Joined Jun 2012 Total posts:71 Hi Dean. The old smithy was there when I moved here in 1979. I would take my boys there to look through the derelict building. The blacksmiths tools were still there with horseshoes etc littered about. Over time they disappeared and the builders moved in. Now its a small complex of little cottages. Very nice but the history has gone. |
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Chaingang Tile Hill Village All posts by this member | 3 of 12 Thu 15th Nov 2012 8:53pm Member: Joined Oct 2011 Total posts:57 Hello Dean, Have a look at this site, it should answer your question. Old George Duggins died a few years ago, he was a regular in The Bell. adopted coventry |
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nirvana coventry All posts by this member | 4 of 12 Fri 16th Nov 2012 2:58pm Member: Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:109 They are very nice pictures Chaingang the before and after is so easy to distinguish well done. |
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DeanSpencer Lutterworth All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 12 Fri 16th Nov 2012 8:22pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:28 Many thanks to all of you above for the information provided. My grandad was a regular at the Bell too , and I have no doubt they would have known one another ! |
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BCPete Maple Ridge, BC, Canada All posts by this member | 7 of 12 Wed 20th Feb 2013 7:18am Member: Joined Jul 2015 Total posts:2 In the years 1932-34 I lived on Duggins Lane and spent many hours watching Mr. Duggins shoeing horses, watched him heat up the forge, hammer the red hot shoes on the anvil, press the shoes on the hooves, and then there was the aroma, wonderful memories. |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 8 of 12 Wed 20th Feb 2013 8:49am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3633 Hello Peter & welcome to our Coventry forum. ![]() |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 9 of 12 Sat 23rd Jul 2016 9:59pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:922 This is Duggins Smithy as of yesterday. It has been sold (subject to contract).
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 10 of 12 Sun 24th Jul 2016 9:53am Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:845 Looks very good! Nice restoration job.
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Heathite Coventry All posts by this member | 11 of 12 Mon 5th Sep 2016 9:20pm Member: Joined Aug 2012 Total posts:699 Do you think this is the Blacksmiths on these maps?
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 12 of 12 Mon 5th Sep 2016 9:39pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:922 yes, the old smithy is just before you get to Nailcote Ave but on opposite side of road. George Duggins also ran the smithy at Westwood just east of St John the Baptist church. |
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