| RLCherrington London All posts by this member | 1 of 8 Mon 25th May 2015 11:20pm Member: Joined May 2014 Total posts:80 Anybody remember anything about Wilsons Gas Meters in Foleshill Road? |
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| johnwright combe martim All posts by this member | 2 of 8 Tue 26th May 2015 7:05am Member: Joined Jun 2014 Total posts:131 Was there not a Wilsons Gas Meter factory on the corner of Livingstone Road and also one in Lythalls Lane? |
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| NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 3 of 8 Tue 26th May 2015 7:47am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:860 The last time I saw the building it was being used as a temple... Milly rules |
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| Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 4 of 8 Tue 26th May 2015 8:17am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5171 From another thread:
On 27th Feb 2013 5:28pm, MisterD-Di said:
Link to my photograph of the building in 2010 On 27th Feb 2013 2:16pm, DBC said:
I remember George Wilson . They had a factory right next door to the Livingstone Road Baths.
George Wilsons were actually opposite the swimming baths. Their factory at one time extended from the Foleshill Road end to where Pedleys, the caravan place was. But then a large part right opposite the Baths entrance was taken over by the City Council for many years. It had been used as the meter testing part, but became the Weights & Measures Department, where I worked in the 70s. It was perfect, and became one of the best equipped such places in Britain under the then Chief Inspector, Ieuan Stringer.
Sadly it was sold off for political expediency around 1980. The service was run by the WMCC by then, and moved to a completely unsuitable rented place in Whitley Village.
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| Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 5 of 8 Tue 26th May 2015 10:47am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:2599 Midland Red, great shot, I remember it quite well, I believe the gas men paid the money in there after doing their rounds, they used to use the 'Livi' pool cafe to count the money, in little piles, we used to knock the tables as we walked by. One of them went to the same schools as me, for anyone interested his sister ran the chip shop in A/Green Rd.
Just inside Broad Street on the right, there was a small chapel and the chapel house, holds some hair-raising party tales for me. But I am surprised the street looks exactly like it was back in the fifties. |
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| charabanc Coventry All posts by this member | 6 of 8 Tue 26th May 2015 11:51am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:167 As a choir boy in the late 1950's, I was invited to sing a solo at the wedding of the daughter of the owner of George Wilson's Gas Meters. It took place at Barford church and I sang 'Oh for the Wings of a Dove', though my voice was about to break and I couldn't hit the top note. I was given a lift to the church and the reception (at the Welcombe Hotel, Stratford) in an Austin Healey Sprite and my fee was a guinea plus all that I could eat at the reception. |
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| Ace Nuneaton All posts by this member | 7 of 8 Wed 27th May 2015 5:36pm Member: Joined Nov 2012 Total posts:72 I had a nice friend who worked at Wilsons. Not seen her in 20+ years though. She moved to Burbage. Lovely lady |
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| Dillotford Stafford All posts by this member | 8 of 8 Tue 2nd Jun 2015 3:17pm Member: Joined Dec 2014 Total posts:29 I remember that my mum told me that George Wilson was Dutch.
The Wilsons lived on Knoll Drive. I remember they also had a Rover P4 in the '50's. |
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