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Mick Strong
Coventry
16 of 25  Sun 27th Oct 2024 9:25am  

On 27th Oct 2024 1:05am, Gumnut said:
On 25th Oct 2024 12:11pm, Mick Strong said:
On 21st Oct 2024 8:01am, Gumnut said: Having only spent 27 years living in Coventry and now live overseas I have little right to comment on such things, I do though remember the birdcage and the lower precinct/arcade area quite well. I had my first ever cricket gear set bought from the sports store down there. From what I'm seeing now is that the life from the city centre has been sucked right out of the place, always a concrete warren in some ways but the weekends were full of shoppers. Such a shame.
Aubrey Hill ?? Used to get my football boots from there as they were a bit cheaper than Davies's.
Im pretty sure it was Davis's - on the righthand side as you walked away from the birdcage.
Davis's was down past the Locarno towards Allied Carpets. They had a chess board built into the slabs outside their shop, with large wooden pieces for hire. I remember them as the only people whom sold catapult elastic in town?
Mick Strong

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PhiliPamInCoventry
17 of 25  Sun 27th Oct 2024 9:34am  
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
18 of 25  Sun 27th Oct 2024 10:17am  

Roy used to go the elecronics in a little passage to the left at the far end. So small if there were more than 2 people you had to queue outside.
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Wearethemods
19 of 25  Sun 27th Oct 2024 10:26am  
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
20 of 25  Sun 27th Oct 2024 7:32pm  

Hello, Brilliant electronics stuff from there. Most of my railway miniature jack plugs came from there, a fraction of the price anywhere else. Early diodes for our dying diode fiddle yard operation that works twenty five years on. Showing off now, but the most catastrophic events with model railways is either a loco running off a lifting section, or a train going full pelt into a dead end. Our current railway has ten dead end fiddle yards but happily no lifting sections. So the dying diode stops the current once the loco has run into that section, then requires the controller to return the controller to zero, then to apply a fresh surge. It only operates in one direction. Coming out of the dead end is just normal.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
21 of 25  Sun 27th Oct 2024 8:46pm  

On 27th Oct 2024 10:26am, Wearethemods said: I remember that Electronics Shop Anne, near the steps up to the Thistle Pub.
I remember the Thistle, Phipps Mild !!!!
Mick Strong

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Positively Pottering
East Midlands
22 of 25  Sun 27th Oct 2024 11:48pm  

Bikers pub, off limits to a mod like me.
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Wearethemods
23 of 25  Mon 28th Oct 2024 10:26am  
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Positively Pottering
24 of 25  Tue 29th Oct 2024 6:05am  
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Wearethemods
25 of 25  Tue 29th Oct 2024 1:06pm  
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