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Annewiggy
Tamworth
136 of 151  Fri 25th Feb 2022 12:16pm  

In 1918 T E Brown, butcher, was at a tribunal appealing against National Service. His address was 90 Walsgrave Road, which is here. Looks like it to me, you can just see the butchers is on a corner.
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Midland Red

137 of 151  Fri 25th Feb 2022 12:39pm  

Well done, Anne Double thumbs up Again! Double thumbs up
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Helen F
Warrington
138 of 151  Fri 25th Feb 2022 12:40pm  

On 25th Feb 2022 11:11am, Rob Orland said: I guess 53 Caludon Road must have been the address of the photographer....
Oops, sorry for misleading everyone but you all know that I don't understand the city outside the old boundaries. I think Anne has it right about the modern location but I find all these shop postcards interesting/amusing. They thought they were giving away an advert for their shop but were placing themselves in history too.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
139 of 151  Fri 25th Feb 2022 1:07pm  

Shops covered with meat or fish seem very popular for being photographed. 53 Caludon Road was run by E V Bernasconi who calls himself ‘Progressive, advertising & printing’. I wonder if they went round knocking on doors to get people to have their shop photographed. We have come across many of these postcards to identify. I wonder why they did not put the address on them.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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140 of 151  Fri 25th Feb 2022 2:11pm  

On 25th Feb 2022 12:16pm, Annewiggy said: In 1918 T E Brown, butcher, was at a tribunal appealing against National Service. His address was 90 Walsgrave Road, which is here. Looks like it to me, you can just see the butchers is on a corner.
Well done Anne, as always! And goodness me, it was in my c1912 postcard image of Ball Hill all this time..... Forum image
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Helen F
Warrington
141 of 151  Fri 25th Feb 2022 2:52pm  

The road looks so wide in that postcard Rob, especially compared to the old road in the distance but even on wide angle in Google it looks quite a modest road. Even at that point the shop looks modernised compared to the shop card. Modern view of Walsgrave Road.
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Prof
Gloucester
142 of 151  Mon 9th May 2022 2:26pm  

Also a wool shop just down towards Clay Lane on rhs, Miss Mundy, and later owned by Edith Broughton who lived in Druid Road after long residence towards the bottom of Marlborough Road. The family had a veg and fruit stall in Barracks Market! Also in the other direction near/on corner, St Michael's towards Old Ball, Boswells? Good furniture shop, where most of my furniture came from in 1961.
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walrus
cheshire
143 of 151  Sat 2nd Jul 2022 12:43pm  

It is interesting how trains of thought can be triggered. I saw [in another thread] Copsewood on the bus shelter where we often caught the 21 bus to Bell Green. Although I've heard of Copsewood, I’ve never known where it actually is. Never too late to learn, so looked on Google Maps.
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Prof
Gloucester
144 of 151  Sat 2nd Jul 2022 2:24pm  

Walrus, Copsewood is that area of Stoke off the Binley Road, Bromleigh Drive and Wyver Crescent (where I was born) with other streets on the former Triumph estate (had been a sports ground) the other side of Binley Road. Stoke where the former GEC telephone works were off Uxbridge Avenue and Crescent Avenue now alas gone. When I lived in Momus Boulevard the telephone exchange for that area was 'Copsewood'.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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145 of 151  Sun 3rd Jul 2022 12:25pm  

In case anyone's wondering what I've been up to in the last month or so, it's been spent creating a "child" website for Historic Coventry, for the area I've spent most of my life in.... It's still very much in its infancy, but to get it on its way I've copied across a couple of relevant "Your memories" tales from HC - including a lovely childhood memoir from our very own Prof. Smile There will always be more to add, but it's probably now ready to be seen in public. Of course..... any of you with Stoke memories or historic articles to contribute will be gratefully welcomed. Double thumbs up
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
146 of 151  Sun 3rd Jul 2022 12:37pm  

I like it. Thank you.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
147 of 151  Sun 3rd Jul 2022 1:21pm  

On 24th Mar 2020 12:36am, Prof said: Forum library image Just to the right of the bus stop. near telegraph pole, was the #9 terminus at Copsewood, during WW2. The bus drove into Bromleigh Drive and then reversed into Momus Boulevard, facing town. The bungalow had a direct hit and left a crater until rebuilt well after the war as there were no materials available.
Please note, an old Midland Red bus stop. Midland Red now gone, their successor, Stagecoach almost gone. They have one hospital route, taken over from Travel de Courcey who went into administration in 2020. Their Rugby schedules about to become National Express franchised. The service to Rugby hospital, 85, already run by National Express.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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148 of 151  Mon 4th Jul 2022 12:43pm  

On 8th Mar 2018 7:00pm, Prof said:
On 28th Jan 2013 7:25am, Rob Orland said:
On 27th Jan 2013 9:02pm, Foxcote said: I should like to know more about the Weighing Machine, Stoke, it was demolished in the 1950's. It looked really old. Does anyone remember it?
Although it was before my time, it does mention Dane Road, and I reckon it could possibly have been in the corner of St. Margaret's Field, which you can see in this Google Maps link, where we often used to play as kids.
The weighing machine was, as Rob stated, in the field at the junction of Dane Road with Walsgrave Road, and Ansty Road, the farther side of the field on Ansty Road being Wyken Croft Road I think.
After looking again through this topic after some years, I now realise that Britain from Above had the answer to this conundrum. Below is a 1931 aerial view which I've marked up to show exactly where the Weigh House (machine) was. And just below it, the other side of the road, is the brand new Walsgrave Pub - still going strong and serving super carveries! Big grin
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Poetscorner
UK
149 of 151  Tue 5th Jul 2022 9:53am  

Rob, thanks for all your work on the Be-Stoke website! As a boy born and raised in Stoke I spent many enjoyable hours going through it yesterday. Nice photos of the Forum cinema which I can remember going to (Lady and the Tramp!) and interestingly the Stoke Rectory which I went in as a small boy. I recall seeing the Bowling Alley (as was) being built in the 60's from my bedroom window. Interesting reading the memories of the Forum shops.... there was a hardware store by the bus stop which smelt of paraffin with solid wooden floors and sold everything, maybe called Philips? Also how about the parrot that was owned by the greengrocer close to the bus stop? It lived outside in a cage and used to mimic the "ding-ding, all aboard" call from the bus which often had people spilling from the shops in a panic fearing that they had missed the bus. Big grin
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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150 of 151  Tue 5th Jul 2022 10:26am  

Thank you for your kind comments, Poetscorner, much appreciated. I can't take any credit for the Newsletters, though, as they were produced by the Stoke Local History Group - but they do make an excellent addition to the site. Of course, if ever you'd like to expand on your own super memories just above, they'd make great reading on the new site - it's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for! I'm copy below an amazing picture of Stoke's recent-ish history, which brings back so many memories for me. I only wish the photo was my own, but it was posted ages ago on Facebook, so I thought I'd share it here. There's an 'S' Reg. Cortina estate outside the Post Office, so it can't be earlier than August 1977 - but I don't think it's very much later than that, either....
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