morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 1 of 87 Fri 20th Jan 2012 8:37pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1684 |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 2 of 87 Sat 21st Jan 2012 7:13am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2881 Wow Morgana, funny seeing The Hall Hotel again after all these years and that is how it looked when we had our wedding reception there in 1961 after tying the knot at St. Thomas's. Alas I fear it is no longer there. All these lovely old houses biting the dust such a shame. ![]() ![]() |
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 87 Sat 21st Jan 2012 11:08am Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1684 Hi Dreamtime, so pleased you've enjoyed seeing the Old Hall, also St Thomas. My sister too got married at St Thomas which, as with the Old Hall, is still there. It's just the Old Hall is being vandalised as the owners can't get permission from the council for certain work so it's going to rack and ruin, the last I heard in the Telegraph. Here is a photo of it in the distance from last year when I took my grandchildren to Coundon Park.
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 4 of 87 Tue 15th May 2012 11:14pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:327 Hello everyone. I live local to what is known locally as the Green at the start of the Tamworth Rd. by the island with the Scotchill, and Keresley Rd. Does anyone have any information about a very large house that once stood there. It must have been before the war, as local people remember the green for having barrage balloons there. One person told me that a house was once there, and I think that if that is correct, then maybe the drive was a continuation of the Keresley Rd. I do know that the Shepherd and Shepherdess pub nearby dates from 1790 (1930s the building standing now dates from) as in 1790, three people were hung on Whitley Common for robbing the public house. It was said that the house had cellars as well. ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 5 of 87 Wed 16th May 2012 12:12am Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2833 Hello Baz ![]() |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 6 of 87 Wed 16th May 2012 7:24am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3629 Hello Baz from me too, & hello Dutchman, ![]() ![]() |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 7 of 87 Wed 16th May 2012 8:56pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:327 Thank you all for the quick replies. Any information you can muster will help. I find local history very interesting, and I hope to find on my next project about Allesley Castle. But thats a little way off yet. Let's see about this one first. No remains can be seen on the green, but there is a slight dent in the ground towards the middle. Go**** earth does not show any outline, or like you have said do any old maps. Maybe it was the old school and grounds. I will try and find out more. Thanks Baz. Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 87 Wed 16th May 2012 11:30pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:327 Hi PhilipinCoventry. I do have a pic of a wall uncovered in the 1964 that shows a well or round stone building about 7-9 feet across. As for the building on the green, it looks more like it was the old school that stood just behind the green where the flats are now (have a picture of that as well). This very kind lady from Hinckley I know has lent me some old photos and books alike to study. She grew up in the city in a 2 storey house with a weaving shop above that. She said that in the cellar was an iron mangle that when her mother sold it, the scrap man had to use a gas cutter to take it apart to get out and up the stairs. Some great memories people have. Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 87 Thu 17th May 2012 7:36am Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1500 These two images are in Dave McGrory's book "Coventry: Then & Now", with the captions....
The old Keresley Church of England School was opened in 1852. Built in the medieval style its tower originally had a short umbrella spire upon it. In 1859 it held 65 boys and 90 girls. The school itself was based upstairs in a large open room; the schoolmaster lived downstairs. It served the local community for 92 years and was finally closed and sold in 1962 and later demolished.
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 10 of 87 Thu 17th May 2012 8:21am Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:327 Thanks Rob for the photo. That's the photo I found as well. It looks like case solved. The green must have been part of the school, a playground or small sports field. What a great building it must have been. The part on the left does seem church like in appearance. Thank you all. Case is I think SOLVED. Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 11 of 87 Thu 17th May 2012 5:26pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5155 I have opened a separate thread for Allesley Castle to avoid the two subjects getting mixed up ! |
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anne coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 87 Fri 18th May 2012 6:27pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:242 ![]() ![]() ![]() On 17th May 2012 7:36am, Rob Orland said:
These two images are in Dave McGrory's book "Coventry: Then & Now", with the captions....
Really interesting! Have got that book - it's great - but hadn't taken in the significance of the photo until now ![]() |
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Barbinoz Australia All posts by this member | 13 of 87 Sat 19th May 2012 9:27am Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:20 I think I remember that building, my dad & I took some books and toys to a house that looked very like this. It was dark so I could be wrong! I wasn't very old, maybe 8 or 9, that would have been 1960-61. I know it was in Keresley and dad said the toys were for the orphans. Hope this helps ![]() |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 14 of 87 Sat 19th May 2012 3:40pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3629 Hi all ![]() ![]() |
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anne coventry All posts by this member | 15 of 87 Sat 19th May 2012 5:39pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:242 On 19th May 2012 9:27am, Barbinoz said:
I think I remember that building, my dad & I took some books and toys to a house that looked very like this. It was dark so I could be wrong! I wasn't very old, maybe 8 or 9, that would have been 1960-61. I know it was in Keresley and dad said the toys were for the orphans. Hope this helps
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