

Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 1 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 12:57am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 A pair of mystery images from Pinterest. I don't know who posted them. I chased round the best part of two hours to find the source as nobody seems to have labelled them. I wondered for a bit if they were somewhere else but I finally worked out where they belong. They're the same area but looking north and then south from the ends. Neil will be pleased. If you've got the Sydney Bunney book, you might find a clue. It's possible that Kaga might remember this area.
Can you work out where these excellent pictures were?
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 2 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 9:25am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3773 Bit confusing, the lorries look WWI, the houses look as if they should be sash, the only billiard hall I knew was Longford, but that fronted the main road, and the connecting bridge looks modern. Wasn't near enough to be the church next to it, so no, can't place it. |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 9:31am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 It's within the city proper and can't be any older than about 1913 because the connecting bridge wasn't built until then. It may have changed by your time, especially as it's not the sort of place kids would venture, so you might not have walked through this area until you were older. If at all. |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 4 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 10:25am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 Absolutely fantastic, Helen - image finds of the year for me. That has to be Vicar Lane! ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 1:05pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 Give the man a prize ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 6 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 1:51pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 Truly brill, Helen. Been looking for some proper shots of Vicar Lane for ages. How did they pop up? We really need to find out who posted - and what others they may have!
I now also realise that the one photo we did already have is taken from underneath the bridge - you can see it at the top of the photo without me ever realising what it was. Do you know what it was for - presumably Iliffe's printing works, or was that later?
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NeilsYard | 7 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 1:54pm |
Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 8 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 2:09pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 Or maybe you find them for me ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 9 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 2:22pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 Yes, that image from the bombing fits well. I've overlooked it before. |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 10 of 34 Tue 2nd Jul 2019 3:05pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3773 Helen F
Can't remember if I ever went in the street or not, but the regimental band at the barracks played in the square, or at the Kings Head Hotel, but the vicar of that lane, the Rev Sibree, complained of the noise to authorities, and the band was stopped, much to the chagrin of the people, and the regiment moved to Birmingham. |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 11 of 34 Wed 3rd Jul 2019 9:58am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 I don't know where the vicar lived but the Sunday School was close to the Barracks. I can imagine that hearing them practice day in, day out might have grated after a while. Especially if you could only hear the beat. |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 12 of 34 Wed 3rd Jul 2019 10:36am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3773 Helen F
The Kings Head Hotel was the posh hotel, but if you had a back room over Vicar Lane, it doesn't look very good, and there is no way that lorry could turn round - in one end, out t'other. But that picture tells me Joe Davis must have visited Coventry many times. |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 34 Wed 3rd Jul 2019 11:19am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 If that was their tap room on Vicar Lane, I'm guessing deliveries would have been made from the hotel front - although on maps there were quite a few buildings between the back of the hotel and Vicar Lane. Were they all the hotel?
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member Thread starter | 14 of 34 Wed 3rd Jul 2019 11:23am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2583 By the time the photo was taken, the Corn Exchange was the Empire Theatre and the Sunday School was part of the printing works. It would have been possible to turn alongside the repurposed Sunday School - hence the substantial brick corner, acting partly as a bollard. It would have been tight. As you write Kaga, it wasn't a salubrious area, despite its proximity to the King's Head. Go back 60 years and it was a lot more upmarket. 60 years before that it was a quiet little lane leading to fields with the Barracks not built until 1793.
My knowledge of these areas starts from the oldest images I can find, so I find it hard to picture what came later. However if I can find a photograph with some of the older buildings on (eg the King's Head Tap can be seen on a very old sketch of the Vicar Lane Meeting House) I can accurately place the demolished buildings and work out their scale.
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 15 of 34 Wed 3rd Jul 2019 11:48am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 That area at the end does look a lot more open in Bunney's painting, doesn't it Helen. |
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