

Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 177 Sat 2nd Jun 2012 12:39pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 Does anyone know what connection a beehive has to do with this building? ![]() ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 2 of 177 Sat 2nd Jun 2012 1:56pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2863 Looks like above the Halifax BS?
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 177 Sat 2nd Jun 2012 8:27pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 Thanks NeilsYard, it is on the Halifax building. This artwork is only found on one corner of the buliding. It's hard to make out in this pic, but it shows a beehive. Just wonder what the connection is (if any). ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 4 of 177 Sat 2nd Jun 2012 8:53pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Hi Baz, clever of you to spot that. I am curious too to know - why the beehive? ![]() |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 177 Sat 2nd Jun 2012 9:15pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 Thanks all, I think I've sorted it.
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 6 of 177 Sat 2nd Jun 2012 9:51pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 In this case it was the crest of original occupants Lloyds Bank before they adopted the Black Horse symbol. ![]() |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 7 of 177 Sat 2nd Jun 2012 9:56pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 And there's me thinking I had stumbled on a bit of history. Thanks Dutchman. ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 8 of 177 Sun 3rd Jun 2012 4:25am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Now I know, thanks for that, most interesting. ![]() |
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anne coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 177 Sun 3rd Jun 2012 9:04am Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:288 Perhaps banks should now adopt fat cats as their symbols! ![]() |
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MisterD-Di Sutton Coldfield All posts by this member | 10 of 177 Sun 3rd Jun 2012 11:41am Member: Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:870 Or pigs with their snouts in the trough. ![]() |
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Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 11 of 177 Sun 10th Jun 2012 8:00pm Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1653 Just for my own curiosity I've decided to resurrect a subject we talked about some time ago as a side-effect of the Allwoods topic.
The Allwoods, Atkins and Turton coffee shop at number 2 High Street eventually became Martins Bank (apostrophe left out to stay consistent with the bank's own spelling). However, there was some uncertainty about the age of the building, which was something I particularly wanted to find out. Two people - one member of this forum and a university researcher looking into our High Street - both independently found archival evidence that Martins Bank was built in 1937-38.
However, I've now discovered two photographs that appear to indicate that the same building occupied by Allwoods et al became, with a frontage update, Martins Bank.
The first photograph is a scan from David Fry and Albert Smith's "The Coventry We Lost", showing a 1913 photo. The building indicated, whilst still retaining the Allwoods shop frontage on the ground floor, looks remarkably like the Bank in Tony Swann's fine 1980s photograph below it.
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 177 Sun 10th Jun 2012 9:55pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 Looking closely at the windows in the first two photo's, the first floor windows in the older photo appear "taller" than the second floor windows - whereas in the 1980's photo, they are the same height. Also, the windows in the older photo appear to be much closer together.
The second and third images certainly look like they could be the same building. |
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anne coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 177 Sun 10th Jun 2012 10:10pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:288 Not sure - but think the 3rd photo is totally amazing - feels weird to see such a familar scene as it was at that time! ![]() |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 14 of 177 Mon 11th Jun 2012 3:51am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 They are great photos Rob.
Hi there Anne ![]() |
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Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 15 of 177 Mon 11th Jun 2012 8:44pm Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1653 On 10th Jun 2012 9:55pm, TonyS said:
Looking closely at the windows in the first two photo's, the first floor windows in the older photo appear "taller" than the second floor windows - whereas in the 1980's photo, they are the same height. Also, the windows in the older photo appear to be much closer together.
Mmmm, I'd not noticed the differing window height before, that's a good point. However, I think overall there are probably too many similarities for it to actually be a different building - maybe the windows were reworked in some way between times? Chronologically, the first photo is later than the third one. |
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