| Mick Strong Coventry All posts by this member | 1456 of 1479 Fri 18th Dec 2020 11:03am Member: Joined Oct 2020 Total posts:418 On 18th Dec 2020 9:38am, Annewiggy said:
Looking at it again it can only be 3 letters as the S is facing the front so whatever A S ? can be. The last letter look as if it is straight like an E or an F.
There are 6 faces on the lamps, could all 6 be used (we just cannot see them)?Mick Strong |
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| Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 1457 of 1479 Fri 18th Dec 2020 11:54am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2424 As the lamps present in the photo, there does not seem to be a preceding letter (based on the two on the right of the photo) but there does look like a third letter (based on the first lamp) and it does look like an E or a B. However the A panel in the second lantern and the first panel of the third lantern are missing the white band at the top, suggesting the panes have been replaced over the years. So potentially the lamps could have had more letters. Until another piece of evidence turns up, I doubt that we are going to solve this. |
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| NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 1458 of 1479 Fri 18th Dec 2020 12:05pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2813 You know I'm now going to have to hunt out old pub photos don't you!  |
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| Mick Strong Coventry All posts by this member | 1459 of 1479 Fri 18th Dec 2020 12:12pm Member: Joined Oct 2020 Total posts:418 On 18th Dec 2020 11:54am, Helen F said:
As the lamps present in the photo, there does not seem to be a preceding letter (based on the two on the right of the photo) but there does look like a third letter (based on the first lamp) and it does look like an E or a B. However the A panel in the second lantern and the first panel of the third lantern are missing the white band at the top, suggesting the panes have been replaced over the years. So potentially the lamps could have had more letters. Until another piece of evidence turns up, I doubt that we are going to solve this.
Any letter looking at it side on will appear as a straight line.Mick Strong |
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| Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 1460 of 1479 Fri 18th Dec 2020 12:41pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2424 Mick, the angle on the first lamp is more acute than those on the second and third but while the first lantern looks like there is a letter, there isn't any evidence on the others. Not even a straight line. |
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| Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 1461 of 1479 Fri 18th Dec 2020 2:10pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1789 F J Hibell went on to the City Hotel in Broadgate. He was also the proprietor of other hotels. He was also a councillor but resigned in November 1905 when he was charged with embezzlement and sent to prison for 3 months hard labour. He was associated with several sports clubs and dog clubs so perhaps the initials were something to do with one of these clubs.
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| NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 1462 of 1479 Thu 14th Jan 2021 11:36am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2813 I'm sure this has been referenced before but can anyone recall - I presume this was setup whilst the Cross Cheaping one was war damaged - Do we know where it was?
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| Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 1463 of 1479 Thu 14th Jan 2021 11:53am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2424 Looking at Britain From Above, it's exactly where the old one was. 
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| NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 1464 of 1479 Thu 14th Jan 2021 11:56am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2813 I should've guess really Helen! I hadn't realised the original had been completely destroyed. |
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| Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 1465 of 1479 Thu 14th Jan 2021 12:30pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2424 It wasn't obvious, as I had to check. It could have been the junction of the market with West Orchard. I have BFA set up to start in the middle of all Coventry pictures sorted by date. Post war photos the right, old photos to the left.
Few of the old timber buildings survived in the centre. Even on the outer areas those that survived were protected by brick buildings bookending them from other stretches that burned. |
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| RadfordGirl Coventry All posts by this member | 1466 of 1479 Wed 17th Feb 2021 3:29pm Member: Joined Nov 2012 Total posts:10 On 4th Nov 2020 3:34pm, Mick Strong said:
Sorry to hear about your uncle. I have just come across a photo on this site of the pub, in the Coventry pubs section. I'll show my cad tomorrow to see if he remembers it.
On 26th Nov 2012 10:35pm, RadfordGirl said:
Hi there I realise I am answering an old thread, but could no resist this.
My uncle Jim died from a heart attack in the Heath on a Sunday dinner time session. He used to live in Beresford Ave and I believe the pub was at the junction with the Foleshill Rd
I was wondering whether anyone remembers The Heath pub. I think it was on the Foleshill Road.
My parents used to go there back in the 60s roughly, as well as my grandfather. The surname was Lomas. If anyone knows this name or indeed has any photos of the pub then I would be very interested!
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| Slim Another Coventry kid All posts by this member | 1467 of 1479 Thu 18th Feb 2021 12:41am Member: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:730 That's amazing. I remember the Heath well, a big pub on the Foleshill Rd, right next to Beresford Avenue as you say.. My uncle was in there most nights, if he wasn't in the Edgwick club drinking. He used to live very near in Fisher Rd.
And he too died of a heart attack on a Sunday lunchtime, but not at the Heath. It was at the Malt Shovel in Bubbenhall. |
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| Mick Strong Coventry All posts by this member | 1468 of 1479 Thu 18th Feb 2021 11:05am Member: Joined Oct 2020 Total posts:418 Coventry Pubs got me thinking of how many we have lost over the years since I have been old enough to frequent them.
Lets call my area Tile Hill / Canley / Eastern Green/ Broad Lane.
From memory, gone are.
The Woodlands
The Standard
The Hawthorn Tree
The Fletchamstead
The Phoenix (building still there as a Chinese Restaurant)
The Dolphin
The Peeping Tom (now Hickorys)
The Newlands
The Herald Mick Strong |
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| belushi coventry All posts by this member | 1469 of 1479 Thu 18th Feb 2021 11:08am Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:62 Hi Mick - how long has the Newlands ceased trading?
And don't forget the Tile Hill Club. |
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| Mick Strong Coventry All posts by this member | 1470 of 1479 Thu 18th Feb 2021 11:12am Member: Joined Oct 2020 Total posts:418 Sorry, I got mixed up. its not the Newlands, I’m thinking of the one on the corner of Jardine Cresent? Mick Strong |
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