Annie Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 1:58am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:31 Would anyone know of an Irish club that existed in Coventry during WW2? It was run by Paddy Healy, aka his stage name Tony (Topps) Cardona, and his wife Florence.
If so, where would club have been? It definitely wasn't Finbars club. |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 2 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 8:37am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2592 Hi Annie. I believe that there were many Irish clubs. Someone may be able to tell you straight away but if not, it might help if you could narrow things down by giving any other clues about location. |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 3 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 10:44am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3785 Annewiggy,
It was once reported in the Telegraph there were about 98 Irish clubs in Coventry. I think it was at the time of the IRA bomb, but I can't be sure now. |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 4 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 1:38pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2592 Different Anne Kaga, but our resident news paper geniuses (Anne being chief) might find something to pin this down. ![]() |
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walrus cheshire All posts by this member | 5 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 1:59pm Member: Joined Dec 2011 Total posts:240 I remembering in the fifties there was a club in the grounds of St Elizabeth's RC church in Eld Road, Foleshill. While ostensibly a Catholic club that would have been almost synonymous with Irish. There were masses every hour from 6 o clock till noon in those days. The late masses seemed to be popular with many men so that they could nip in the club afterwards. The wooden building is still there. I spoke to my dad today but he can only recall Finbars on Stoney Stanton Road which was formerly The Prince of Wales cinema. |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 6 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 3:41pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1834 I had a look but could not find much. Anything that comes up with a search for "Irish Club" in the 1940's only comes up with sports teams. In the 1950 there are adverts for the Bamba Dance Club a private Irish Dance club on the Foleshill Road but that did not open until the mid 1950's, it used to be the Redesdale Cinema. |
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Wearethemods Aberdeenshire All posts by this member | 7 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 3:58pm Member: Joined Jun 2013 Total posts:475 There was/is an Irish Club called the 4 Provinces Club, (commonly called the 4 P's), on the corner of Craven Street & Allesley Old Road, (near the Hearsall Lane Junction), in Spon End. I believe it was attacked in the backlash of the 1974 Coventry/Birmingham Bombings and the fact that the Father Fell IRA Cell was located in the area |
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Handyman Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 4:03pm Member: Joined Feb 2017 Total posts:1 Annewiggy I think that was the Banba Club, named after a potato! Mike Murphy |
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Old Lincolnian Coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 4:27pm Member: Joined Sep 2012 Total posts:519 Wearethemods - the 4 Provinces is still there. |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 10 of 13 Mon 17th Feb 2020 5:46pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1834 Handyman, the CET had Banba and Bamba so I wasn’t sure!! |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 11 of 13 Tue 18th Feb 2020 9:16am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2863 Anyone know what happened to Father Fell? |
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3Spires SW Leicestershire All posts by this member | 12 of 13 Tue 18th Feb 2020 1:34pm Member: Joined Apr 2018 Total posts:122 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fell
Died 2011.
I met him when he was a visiting priest at St Francis of Assisi, Bedworth, in the late 60's.
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bohica coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 13 Tue 18th Feb 2020 6:31pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:293 May he rot in Hell ![]() |
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