TSP W.A. All posts by this member
| 31 of 42 Wed 3rd Oct 2018 2:02am Member: Joined Aug 2018 Total posts:14
On 2nd Oct 2018 8:58pm, Prof said:
TSP That is a super photo and I believe the Florist/Fruiterer shop is 196 Binley Road. Next door is Kitty Wells,
who had the shop still during and after the last war. My grandparents lived at 192 1920-36 approx. It was still a fruit and vegetable shop in the 1950's- 60s but I forget the owner's name. The draper's shop next to It, 198, was run by a Mr & Mrs Barlow. I think Mr Barlow travelled around selling clothing, perhaps as a tally man, though I am not certain.
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The Fruit shop was my grandparents and was located at 196 Binley Road. Appear to have lost text from original posting |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member
| 32 of 42 Wed 10th Oct 2018 8:38pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5202
On 1st Oct 2018 1:33pm, Slim said:
On 1st Oct 2018 12:18pm, Kaga simpson said: where there wasn't a tree in the area where I hadn't climbed So did we. It was part of normal growing up and development. You learned not to be daft enough to fall and injure yourself. I can't remember when I last saw kids climbing trees. I daresay it's banned nowadays under the elf'n safety nanny state!
Don't let my mother's cousin hear you make comments like that, Slim - her nine year old son died when he fell from a tree in Sheffield in 1964
Some safety regs are really important |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member
| 33 of 42 Wed 10th Oct 2018 9:50pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4128
Hi all 
That is so true M.R.  Rules that have entered the statute books have done so usually following a chronic failure or tragedy. Yes, it is frustrating that things that we did in the fifties appear to be prohibited, or can only be done when wearing a hard hat or whatever. In 1955 there were around 3 million cars on British roads, whereas today we have over 25 million. Tighter controls are inevitable. It's not just the numbers either. The speed & acceleration bears little comparison to sixty years ago.
I hated the day when I had to swop my flat cap for a plastic hard hat, but was very grateful on the day when I fell twelve feet head first into a builders trench & was still able to continue my count that afternoon. Regulations also take into account those who have to pick up the pieces. Our emergency services are at breaking point, so in spite of me laughing at school closures because of a few flakes of snow, the reality is to consider the time consumed by ambulance teams as well as our hospital A&E departments coping with awkward scenarios. We live in faster world.
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member
| 34 of 42 Mon 19th Nov 2018 9:58pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:953
Elm Bank, Stoke Park. Home of Siegfried Bettmann, Mayor of Coventry and founder of Triumph!
My great-aunt was his cook in the 1920-30s. This could become student flats, but sad state just now.
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member
| 35 of 42 Sun 20th Jan 2019 8:05pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5202
A view from 1931
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member
| 36 of 42 Sun 20th Jan 2019 8:08pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5202
Farther out, in 1939
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member
| 37 of 42 Mon 21st Jan 2019 8:34am Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:953
The prefabricated building on the RH is St Andrew's Hall where a Sunday School was run for Stoke Church by Mrs Mayes, wife of the coal merchant in Crescent Avenue, Stoke. The houses behind it are in Bromleigh Drive, which had a small parade of shops. Momus Boulevard to left of photo off Binley Road.
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member
| 38 of 42 Sat 16th Feb 2019 2:51pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:953
Stocks on Binley Road

LookaroundAnne |
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JohnnieWalker Bonny Hills, Australia All posts by this member
| 39 of 42 Sun 17th Feb 2019 12:43am Member: Joined Jul 2011 Total posts:265
On 21st Jan 2019 8:34am, Prof said:
The prefabricated building on the RH is St Andrew's Hall where a Sunday School was run for Stoke Church by Mrs Mayes, wife of the coal merchant in Crescent Avenue, Stoke. The houses behind it are in Bromleigh Drive, which had a small parade of shops. Momus Boulevard to left of photo off Binley Road.
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I went to pre-school at that Hall when I was four! Had my first crush on a lovely Indian girl - I think her father was a local doctor! True Blue Coventry Kid  |
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Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member
| 40 of 42 Sun 17th Feb 2019 10:14am Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1404
On 20th Jan 2019 8:08pm, Midland Red said:
Farther out, in 1939

Ah, it took ages to work this out, but Steve and I have finally ascertained that this was taken on the corner of Momus Boulevard and Anthony Way, and the empty space on the right is where the PMR business now stands.... see this Google Map link. At first I'd been convinced that it must have been looking west from Binley Road towards an unfinished Raleigh Road, but the house styles don't match, Phew, got there at last!
Your picture, MR, might also answer a conundrum about a photo that I've had for some time (below), because I was never quite certain whereabouts it was taken from. I now have the feeling that the featured tram was in the same spot as in your photo, but looking the other way?
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member
| 41 of 42 Sun 17th Feb 2019 11:48am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5202
I posted this on the "Then and now" thread:
In the first one, tram 70 has just passed Uxbridge Avenue in April 1939 - across Binley Road, the houses on Momus Boulevard are only built as far as Anthony Way. The Triumph Recreation Ground clubhouse can be seen - the grounds, containing a cricket ground, several tennis courts and a bowling green, would soon be built on (there was another sports ground immediately beyond the Triumph, which contained, amongst other facilities, what is now Stoke Bowling Club's green)

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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member
| 42 of 42 Sun 17th Feb 2019 11:52am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5202
Re tram 73, yes it's taken looking t'other way  I haven't seen it before, but I do have this one of tram 71, taken from the end of Uxbridge Avenue
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