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First are the buildings on the junction with ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 2 of 164 Sun 3rd Nov 2013 7:45pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 I'm splitting hairs but the junction of West Orchard is with Fleet Street. Smithford Street begins a bit further up where the river passes underneath. ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 164 Sun 3rd Nov 2013 7:49pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 Thanks ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 4 of 164 Sun 3rd Nov 2013 7:59pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5604 On 3rd Nov 2013 7:45pm, dutchman said:
I'm splitting hairs but the junction of West Orchards is with Fleet Street.
Edited by member, 3rd Nov 2013 7:50 pm
West Orchard, surely? ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 5 of 164 Sun 3rd Nov 2013 8:05pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 Corrected ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 6 of 164 Sun 3rd Nov 2013 10:47pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 Interesting viewing Helen cheers ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 7 of 164 Sun 3rd Nov 2013 11:41pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 If you can see the wedge shaped Co-Op building, the river was in line with the long inner wall, just follow it in either direction.
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woodford coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 164 Sun 3rd Nov 2013 11:47pm Member: Joined Feb 2013 Total posts:156 Brilliant work Helen - thanks for sorting out the pictures. Brilliant! ![]() |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 9 of 164 Mon 4th Nov 2013 9:48am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 Great compilation Helen ![]() |
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Alvisnick France All posts by this member | 10 of 164 Mon 4th Nov 2013 1:40pm Member: Joined Oct 2011 Total posts:23 The contract car coachbuilders Carbodies owned by Bobby Jones began business in West Orchard. Does anyone have a picture to post of this well known Coventry firm when it was there?
They later moved to the big factory on Holyhead Road opposite Alvis, later manufacturing London taxis. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 11 of 164 Tue 5th Nov 2013 10:58am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5604 My 3x great grandfather lived at 36 West Orchard in 1861
Has anyone any indication of where that would have been? Please! ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 12 of 164 Tue 5th Nov 2013 1:22pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 I can't tell exactly because all the maps I've got conflict with each other in house blocks and some blocks seem to be one building but they're not. My guestimate would be very near the junction of West Orchard and Fleet Street, somewhere under the Co-op. The pubs round the corner were the Wheat Sheaf at 30 and The Spread Eagle at 25.
See the top painting. It's possibly one of the block on the right. My WAG would be the one just behind the one gable on and part of the group that goes over the middle bridge. Though these may have gone by the time of your relative.
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Primrose USA All posts by this member | 13 of 164 Tue 5th Nov 2013 3:58pm Member: Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:191 Can anyone come up with a map that includes the other end of West Orchard? I'm wondering if we can home in on number 36 by figuring out where the enumerator on the census started and stopped - yes, I know this is tricky! |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 14 of 164 Tue 5th Nov 2013 4:02pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 Attempting to locate the Carbodies factory, I have just taken a strange route to a factory in West Orchard and this is what I found....
In 1919, Carbodies set up business in a premises acquired from Thomas Pass in West Orchard.
I had a look into Thomas Pass and found his adverts for his business described as 'West Orchard Works', his adverts disappear in the papers from 1918, then I put a search in for the factory works and came up with this link and a drawing of the factory.
Hope it is of interest to someone out there! Could it be the one?
Centaur Cycle Factory/Carbodies original factory? |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 15 of 164 Tue 5th Nov 2013 6:07pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 On 5th Nov 2013 10:58am, Midland Red said:
My 3x great grandfather lived at 36 West Orchard in 1861
Has anyone any indication of where that would have been? Please!
It was somewhere in this general area:
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