
Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 31 of 63 Fri 10th Mar 2017 9:00pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5607 Roger - there's a good article about it here ![]() |
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Roger T Torksey All posts by this member | 32 of 63 Sun 12th Mar 2017 12:13am Member: Joined Jul 2019 Total posts:543 Thank you MR,
I guess it was pretty awful,
Thanks for the pointer - someone must have liked it.
It`s really the `throw away` society angle that gets me
All the capital invested in public buildings used to mean they were good for centuries - you don`t necessarily have to like them |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 33 of 63 Sun 12th Mar 2017 4:13am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3479 I hate to say it but in most circumstances, Preservation must give way to Progress - no matter what the cost and whoever pays! |
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AD Allesley Park All posts by this member | 34 of 63 Sun 12th Mar 2017 2:10pm Member: Joined Aug 2011 Total posts:418 On 10th Mar 2017 4:22pm, Midland Red said:
It's many, many years since I saw this much of the spire of Christ Church
I've never seen it other than with Spire House, but I did always feel that it would make a fantastic centrepiece for a square on that site (to replace Bull Yard) if it were opened up and the trees removed for smaller shrubs and bushes. This demolition has just reinforced this opinion. Maybe even include the outline of where the rest of the church was using paving materials?
Straightening the route of Greyfriars Lane would start to create a better link between all three spires and create a node of New Union St, Warwick Road, Hertford St and Greyfriars Lane, with the square also being able to be used by the bar as an extended outdoor seating area. Then the pool could have still been built just ever so slightly to the east (though I still think there would have been better sites)
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 35 of 63 Fri 16th Feb 2018 3:51pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5607 On 10th Mar 2017 4:22pm, Midland Red said:
It's many, many years since I saw this much of the spire of Christ Church
Looks like I was right - the view this morning in New Union Street ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 36 of 63 Fri 16th Feb 2018 9:48pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2867 I'm just amazed they didn't use Christ Church spire for a Helter Skelter ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 37 of 63 Fri 16th Feb 2018 10:39pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5607 You mean it isn't a new gasometer? ![]() |
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member Thread starter | 38 of 63 Tue 14th Aug 2018 9:43am Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1536 Here's another interior shot:
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member Thread starter | 39 of 63 Sat 20th Oct 2018 5:09pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1536 Christ Church in creation.
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member Thread starter | 40 of 63 Tue 18th Dec 2018 10:35pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1536 ![]() |
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member Thread starter | 41 of 63 Sat 5th Jan 2019 7:13pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1536 Bull Yard with Christchurch and Central Hall
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 42 of 63 Wed 9th Jan 2019 11:14am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3791 Prof. Greyfriars - that's new. |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 43 of 63 Fri 1st Mar 2019 8:54am Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 Here's the weather vane at the top of Greyfriars spire
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Heathite Coventry All posts by this member | 44 of 63 Mon 21st Oct 2019 2:08pm Member: Joined Aug 2012 Total posts:724 Here's a few images from today, outside Whitefriars Church where digging was going on. You can see the remains of a large column that the archaeologist said was going to be recovered and displayed at a later date outside 'The Wave'.
The archaeologist very kindly snapped these images from within the fenced of area.
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 45 of 63 Mon 21st Oct 2019 4:03pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2616 Well done on the great pictures. ![]() |
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