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	dutchman
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	Wed 8th Feb 2012  10:05pm  
	 
	For many years he was in the Leofric but is not there now.
 
 
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	dutchman
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	Wed 8th Feb 2012  11:01pm  
	 
	He moved around quite a bit but sometimes needed a bit of help from his drinking pals  
 
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	Midland Red
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	Thu 9th Feb 2012  7:11am  
	 
	Last time I saw him, he was inside Cathedral Lanes   
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	scrutiny
	 coventry  | 
	 
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	Mon 4th Jun 2012  1:10pm  
	 
	Here is another "Peeping Tom" from Colin. Can anyone clarify where it is or was?
 
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	dutchman
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	Mon 4th Jun 2012  2:58pm  
	 
	King's Head Hotel, corner of Smithford Street and Hertford Street, approximately where Broadgate House is today.
 
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	scrutiny
	 coventry  | 
	 
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	Mon 4th Jun 2012  3:28pm  
	 
	Wow, you are good. This place then.
 
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	dutchman
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	Mon 4th Jun 2012  3:35pm  
	 
	Yes, a later version of the hotel with Peeping Tom occupying a fancier window opening on the corner.
 
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	anne
	 coventry  | 
	 
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	Mon 4th Jun 2012  4:18pm  
	 
	I'm convinced there used to be a Peeping Tom looking over the newly built Hertford Street from Broadgate House in the 60's - have I got a mixed up memory?  
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	Midland Red
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	Thu 16th May 2013  9:38pm  
	 
	There's this one in Hertford Street   
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	dutchman
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	Thu 16th May 2013  11:07pm  
	 
	That looks like the one from the pub of the same name which was at the bottom of Hertford Street?
Pictures of Coventry 
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	woodford
	 coventry  | 
	 
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	Sun 19th May 2013  7:47pm  
	 
	On 16th May 2013  9:38pm, Midland Red said: 
There's this one in Hertford Street   
That's the one - thankyou, Midland Red  | 
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	NeilsYard
	 Coventry  | 
	 
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	Fri 14th Oct 2016  6:19pm  
	 
	Does anyone know the origins of all these Toms?!? The one that was on the Kings Head looked left but the one that was at the bottom of Hertford Street (is that the same one that's in Cliff's photo?) looks right?  
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	Annewiggy
	 Tamworth  | 
	 
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	Fri 14th Oct 2016  9:06pm  
	 
	This is another one I have not seen before. From Coventry Telegraph November 1940 courtesy of British Newspaper Archive. I don't recognise the building you can see, it looks like a roof top.
 
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	Derrickarthur
	 Coventry  | 
	 
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	Fri 14th Oct 2016  10:31pm  
	 
	I took this photo in October 2014 in the bar of The Rainbow Inn in Allesley village.
 
 
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	Annewiggy
	 Tamworth  | 
	 
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	Sat 15th Oct 2016  10:47am  
	 
	Thanks for that Derrickarthur. Found a bit of information on t'internet. The statue was commissioned in 1934 by the late Tom Freeman who was unhappy with the sculptures in the city. He asked local sculptures the Ormerod Brothers to make it. It says the bust's first home was in a gable window at what was then a sweet shop in Bishop Street but I haven't as yet been able to find a picture of a Bishop Street shop with a gable. Although it survived the bombing as per the newspaper article the Freemans were bombed out of the shop so it was taken away by Mr Freeman's son and used it as a garden ornament in Warwick. They auctioned it off in 2007 and was bought by the Dosanjhs of the Rainbow Inn. Another article says that this was the youngest of 5 Peeping Toms. 
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