BrotherJoybert Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 158 Tue 9th Mar 2010 8:32am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:117 Didn't see it myself so if anyone else missed the demolition, this and other clips are on YouTube:
Courtaulds Chimney, Little Heath, Coventry. 7th March 2010
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Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 2 of 158 Tue 9th Mar 2010 9:16pm Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1656 Hey, thanks for that - I didn't even realise it was being demolished! Not something we get to see everyday.
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Chaingang Tile Hill Village All posts by this member | 3 of 158 Tue 29th Nov 2011 11:29pm Member: Joined Oct 2011 Total posts:60 Please can somebody help?
When I was an apprentice I heard a rhyme about Courtaulds chimney, the only bit I can remember
Courtaulds chimney gets rid of all the smoke,
it takes the stink from Foleshill
and dumps it down in Stoke
If anyone can supply the complete verse it would be appreciated adopted coventry |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 4 of 158 Wed 30th Nov 2011 7:19am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5607 Here's the chimney !
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Chaingang Tile Hill Village All posts by this member | 5 of 158 Wed 30th Nov 2011 7:54am Member: Joined Oct 2011 Total posts:60 Thanks for the photograph, I knew it was the biggest, it's the verse I'm after. adopted coventry |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 6 of 158 Wed 30th Nov 2011 9:22am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5607 Needed to find it !
Courtaulds built a chimney
It wasn't built for smoke
But to take the stink from Foleshill
And dump it down in Stoke
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 7 of 158 Wed 30th Nov 2011 11:11am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4248 Hey! That's my line! ![]() ![]() |
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Chaingang Tile Hill Village All posts by this member | 8 of 158 Wed 30th Nov 2011 1:55pm Member: Joined Oct 2011 Total posts:60 Thank you Midland Red - I have asked dozens of people over the years and never found anybody who knew what I was talking about. ![]() adopted coventry |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 158 Fri 2nd Dec 2011 12:01am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2867 That is a whopper! Whereabouts was it - and when did it (presumably) go? |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 10 of 158 Fri 2nd Dec 2011 11:21pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4248 Hello. The base of the chimney is still intact & was the subject of a preservation order. It can be seen from either near to the Stag pub or from Kingfield Rd. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 11 of 158 Sat 3rd Dec 2011 12:21am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4248 Regards the poem about the chimney, I was once shown sheet music of a very old song called 'It ain't no fault of mine'. The song had several verses which went-:
If Friday fell on Saturday night, it ain't no fault of mine. It ain't no fault of mine.
Now, Courtaulds built a chimney, it was not built for smoke. It took the stink from Foleshill, & dropped it over Stoke. Well it ain't no fault of mine (then repeats & goes on to other odd verses).
The last person to have sung it on record, I have been told was Sandy Powell, well before the war. ![]() ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 158 Sat 3rd Dec 2011 4:47am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2867 Thanks for the info Philip ![]() |
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 13 of 158 Sat 3rd Dec 2011 11:36am Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 Was the chimney at the main Courtaulds' site, or at what was the British Celanese factory? |
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 14 of 158 Sat 3rd Dec 2011 12:09pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1932 If you take a look at the postcard above picture and take into account no smoke came out only a stink this must be the stink one, as the furthest chimney away photo postcard MidlandRed has put up has smoke coming out of it. ![]() |
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 15 of 158 Sat 3rd Dec 2011 12:12pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 Not only that, but if you look at the tall chimney, it has brick corbelling of two rings above rooftop level, whereas the one in the "cut-down" photograph doesn't, only what looks like metal walkways. So I'd deduce that the "cut-down" one isn't the tall chimney. |
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