




Greeny Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 12 Sat 11th Feb 2012 11:53pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:47 Just scanned a few images from this interesting book...
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Genghis Smith Ireland All posts by this member | 2 of 12 Sun 12th Feb 2012 9:34am Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:69 Top images, Greeny!
Keep 'em coming!
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 3 of 12 Sun 12th Feb 2012 9:37am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:827 Your second picture is of Albert Street taken from the block of flats at the end, the caravan is George Hilditch scrapyard, and the gable end further down is the Star and Garter pub. Opposite Hilditch's is what remains of Johnson and Mason after we demolished it, it backed on to the Ivy Cottage pub on Primrose Hill St.....
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 4 of 12 Sun 12th Feb 2012 12:39pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 Well spotted Norm ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 5 of 12 Sun 12th Feb 2012 1:11pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:827 Dutchman . . in that case you must remember when the tower crane collapsed while building the flats in Hillfields, I am not sure if it's the crane in the first picture, and the driver was killed if my memory serves me right... Milly rules |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 6 of 12 Sun 12th Feb 2012 1:27pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 On 12th Feb 2012 1:11pm, NormK said:
Dutchman . . in that case you must remember when the tower crane collapsed while building the flats in Hillfields
Afraid not Norm. I think I'd stopped visiting Hillfields before any of the tower blocks were built and prefer to remember it that way ![]() |
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walrus cheshire All posts by this member | 7 of 12 Sun 12th Feb 2012 1:46pm Member: Joined Dec 2011 Total posts:240 Unfortunately in the headlong rush to modernise, Hillfields and so many other places were bulldozed to make way for the newer and, so we thought, better. It's only after costly lessons, both financially and socially, that we've learned that we might have refurbished and rebuilt some areas. Hillfields became an area to stay clear of. |
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 12 Mon 13th Feb 2012 12:44am Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:884 On 11th Feb 2012 11:53pm, Greeny said:
From Trinity St looking towards White St
The same view these days is absolutely horrible.
How many buildings did they demolish to built that ring road? I'm not against ring roads, they can be good for distributing traffic, but the Coventry ring road is just so brutal and seems to have damaged the city so much.![]() ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 12 Mon 13th Feb 2012 5:48am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 Well said Flap ![]() |
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J2R2R Lytham St Annes All posts by this member | 10 of 12 Fri 28th Jun 2013 10:53am Member: Joined Jun 2013 Total posts:1 On 12th Feb 2012 1:11pm, NormK said:
Dutchman . . in that case you must remember when the tower crane collapsed while building the flats in Hillfields, I am not sure if it's the crane in the first picture, and the driver was killed if my memory serves me right...
I lived in Hillfields House and was in St Mary's Infants School when this happened and saw the devastation when I got home. I cannot remember exactly which year it happened but I guess 1967.
One of the girls in my class, Mary Wilson, lived in one of the houses destroyed in Nelson Street.
I have clear memories of the area including Phillips' Hardware, Porter's Newsagents and D-Di's Ice Cream.
There was also a guy called Mr Grunsky who lived in Gilbert Street who used to take me to Coombe Abbey.
I have many memories so it is good to see the photographs and recall my times there.John RJ |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 11 of 12 Fri 28th Jun 2013 4:24pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4231 Hello J2R2R & welcome to our forum. ![]() |
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burnsy Coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 12 Sat 29th Jun 2013 6:12pm Member: Joined Jun 2013 Total posts:1 On 11th Feb 2012 11:53pm, Greeny said:
...Can anyone identify the Hillfields locations in the first 2 pictures ?
The top picture is the rear gardens of houses in Weston Street
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