coventry49 Budleigh Salterton, Devon All posts by this member | 1 of 8 Wed 27th Apr 2016 5:06pm Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:192 Can I ask again for help in finding out where Brewery Street in Coventry was/is? My GG Grandfather James COLE lived there on the 1841 Census with his wife Jane and son James. James' occupation is stated as Draughtsman. I'm wondering whether this is an occupation in a Brewery perhaps of that time?
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 2 of 8 Wed 27th Apr 2016 5:29pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1784 Hi Coventry49. Brewery Street is between Leicester Street and Henry Street just above where it says Cook Street Gate on this map. Hope that helps.
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coventry49 Budleigh Salterton, Devon All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 8 Wed 27th Apr 2016 6:19pm Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:192 Many thanks Anne. In my mind I can just about work out where it was. I take it that it disappeared years ago? |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 4 of 8 Wed 27th Apr 2016 6:53pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1784 On later census he appears to be in the weaving industry. I think maybe a draughtsman is something to do with that. Probably the person who does the designs. In 1881 when he is 76he is employing 2 men and 2 women. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 5 of 8 Wed 27th Apr 2016 8:58pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2839 That whole area was massively bombed, left derelict for decades after the war then finally submerged under the new Ring Road:
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coventry49 Budleigh Salterton, Devon All posts by this member Thread starter | 6 of 8 Thu 28th Apr 2016 8:10am Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:192 Thank you Dutchman. I will go into Britain from Above and zoom in on that particular photograph and see if I can identify Brewery Street. The system of building homes around Courts was obviously common in Coventry at a certain period of time. I do remember seeing them in my childhood and well into the late 1960s in Spon End particularly. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 7 of 8 Thu 28th Apr 2016 6:17pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2839 I'm afraid that's as zoomed-in as you can get on Britain From Above in 1939 and by 1946 the area looked like this:
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coventry49 Budleigh Salterton, Devon All posts by this member Thread starter | 8 of 8 Thu 28th Apr 2016 7:09pm Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:192 Thanks Dutchman
I can get my bearings from the Hippodrome and the corner of Trinity Street and see all the flattened area behind that. |
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