Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 29 Thu 24th May 2012 9:21pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 If you live around The Dunlop site you may remember these as the lines across Burnaby Road and the engine that used them. My nan lived there and I can remember walking across the lines many times. The no2 bus used to stop at the Pilot pub (rest in peace) and we would walk down to my nan's from there. Never seen any engines or alike. But my nan aways called it The Black Pad, and Old Tin Lizzy. There were 2 lines that went into the Dunlop site, and joined the Coventry / Nuneaton line the city side of the old Foleshill Station. Does this bring back any memories? Baz Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 2 of 29 Thu 24th May 2012 9:34pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4235 Hello Baz, Hi all. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 29 Thu 24th May 2012 11:28pm Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:334 Thanks Philip. I just remember my nan calling it the Black Pad. The Tin Lizzy must have been the engine. The tracks can still be seen on the lower line near at the bottom of Burnaby Road, entering the factory, between the houses where cars are normally parked. I think both were single track, and no crossing gates across the road. Just wire gates stopping you from running down the tracks. Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 4 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 12:07am Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 "Black pad" an ancient road from the Keresley area into Lockhurst Lane parallel to the present Burnaby Road, was closed so that a shell filing works could operate on what is now Dunlop Sports Ground.
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Genghis Smith Ireland All posts by this member | 5 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 1:48am Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:69 Think there's a few Black Pads.
Mine was the one at the Tennyson Road end of Occupation Road.
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 6 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 1:59am Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 Yes, I believe it was a common name for old footpaths? There was also one between Spon Street and what later became Croft Road but at the time was known as the Poddycroft. |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 7 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 2:50am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Mornin' Philip,
Hope your morning is as glorious as ours today.
Just seen the link and thought - well that old girl has a strong pair of dumb buffers (pardon the pun). So what sort of wood would they have been made of? Considering they are buffers they would have to be hardwood.
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 8 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 8:56am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4235 Hi all & Morning Dreamtime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 9 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 9:00am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Oh dear, Philip's been at the Wincarnis again, and the sun's got to him as well ![]() |
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Tricia Bedworth All posts by this member | 10 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 2:28pm Member: Joined Jun 2011 Total posts:541 Baz your topic certainly brought back memories to my husband. As a young lad in the late 40s, after a trip to Livingstone Road swimming baths he says he used to cross the bridge by Bretts Stamping Works and wait for the Tin Lizzy. When it went passed, if the driver wasn't looking he, and his friends, used to jump on the buffers on the back of the trucks and have a ride to Rollason Close (just off Burnaby Road). The train then crossed Burnaby Road and went straight into the Dunlop. ![]() ![]() |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 11 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 3:12pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4235 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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anne coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 9:42pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:288 Hi. Do you happen to know why old footpaths were called Black Pads? ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 13 of 29 Fri 25th May 2012 10:18pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 "Pad" is the old word for "path", but why "black" I don't know? |
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Genghis Smith Ireland All posts by this member | 14 of 29 Sat 26th May 2012 12:58am Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:69 Possibly Tarmac explains the black.
Near where I live in the Mournes, there's an old bootleggers/smugglers' route called 'The Brandy Pad' ![]() |
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Beesman Cornwall All posts by this member | 15 of 29 Sat 26th May 2012 1:00am Member: Joined Mar 2012 Total posts:356 Living at the time in Burns Road this is also the 'Black Pad' that I remember. From the corner of Burns Road/Church Lane to Tennyson Road. Despite it officially being named Occupation Road, it was always the 'Black Pad'. The very name made it rather sinister to a young lad, especially after dark! ![]() |
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