Harrier Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 13 Fri 24th May 2013 9:32am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:221 Has anyone seen / got a picture of the Samson and Lion public house in Swanswell Place (Swanswell Terrace) please. According to the Real Ales website, it closed in October '67. |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 2 of 13 Fri 24th May 2013 9:51am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 |
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Harrier Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 13 Fri 24th May 2013 1:56pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:221 Brilliant Foxcote. Many thanks. |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 4 of 13 Fri 24th May 2013 3:09pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:827 ![]() ![]() Milly rules |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 5 of 13 Fri 24th May 2013 4:09pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 Afternoon NormK ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 6 of 13 Fri 24th May 2013 4:38pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 The pub will have been given the then-popular mock-Tudor look in the 1930s so will not appear in planning records.
The weavers' cottages to the right were obviously pictured in the 1940s as they have been gutted by incendiary bombs and must have been demolished shortly afterwards. |
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mick coventry All posts by this member | 7 of 13 Tue 28th May 2013 4:19pm Member: Joined Sep 2012 Total posts:72 Picture 2 of the old pub reminded me very much of the old doctors surgery nearby on the corner of Cook Street. Having originally lived in White Street until 1947 we continued to use this doctors before it too moved to the new surgery on the corner of Stoney Stanton Road and Howard Street [now also replaced!]. The old surgery was very similar to the pub - double fronted, small front garden with garden gate and must have been built about the same time [mid 19th century?].
The doctors when I was a lad included Hamilton, Weir and Hall |
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dutchman | 8 of 13 Tue 28th May 2013 5:30pm |
NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 9 of 13 Tue 28th May 2013 5:47pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:827 That was the chemist with the clock on the corner, they incorporated the old clock into the new building and the last time I saw it it looked a bit worse for wear, is the clock still there? ![]() Milly rules |
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TEKMELF HAWKESBURY All posts by this member | 10 of 13 Tue 28th May 2013 7:51pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:80 I recall Dr Weir being a bluff Scotsman who I do believe had been a naval surgeon, Dr Hamilton being rather a large gentleman who whilst attending me in my bed suffering from pneumonia, struggling up the stairs, sitting on the edge of the bed out of breath preaching to me about the dangers of smoking, then dosing me up with M and B tablets. That was many years ago, to say how many would give my age away. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 11 of 13 Tue 28th May 2013 7:58pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5604 M&B in tablet form! ![]() |
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dutchman | 12 of 13 Tue 28th May 2013 8:35pm |
dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 13 of 13 Mon 8th Jul 2013 5:48pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 On 28th May 2013 5:47pm, NormK said:
That was the chemist with the clock on the corner, they incorporated the old clock into the new building and the last time I saw it it looked a bit worse for wear, is the clock still there?
Afraid not Norm and the chemists has now moved into the lobby of the new health centre opposite ![]() ![]() |
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