PhiliPamInCoventry
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16 of 25
Mon 20th Jun 2022 3:04pm
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belushi
coventry
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17 of 25
Mon 20th Jun 2022 4:27pm
On 20th Jun 2022 11:46am, Mick Strong said:
Anyone else noticed how these shops are now getting converted back to front rooms? One that springs to mind is on the corner of Glendower Avenue and Whoberley Avenue. Been done for a while now.
This was a post office, not a front room shop Mick. Used to buy my daughter's bus pass from there about a dozen years ago. |
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Midland Red
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18 of 25
Thu 23rd Jun 2022 10:03am
On 20th Jun 2022 11:46am, Mick Strong said:
Anyone else noticed how these shops are now getting converted back to front rooms? One that springs to mind is on the corner of Glendower Avenue and Whoberley Avenue. Been done for a while now.
This one on Longford Road is a bit of a “gem”
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Prof
Gloucester
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19 of 25
Thu 23rd Jun 2022 9:40pm
There was a front room shoe shop in Richmond Street, off Clay Lane, Stoke, not many houses up on the left.
My grandma took me there once, she may have known the man from when my grandparents rented rooms in Cambridge Street before they bought their first house in Ranby Road when they came to Coventry from Grantham c.1906. |
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argon
New Milton
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20 of 25
Thu 23rd Jun 2022 11:12pm
Unless my memory is wrong, that was Hanson, the butchers. Early 60's, we had a shop a few doors up on Longford bridge. |
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Midland Red
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21 of 25
Fri 24th Jun 2022 8:05am
Your memory is not wrong, argon! |
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Not Local
Bedworth
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22 of 25
Fri 24th Jun 2022 1:42pm
Hanson butchers were still operating into the 80's, maybe longer. A proper old fashioned butcher complete with the abattoir down the side. |
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argon
New Milton
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23 of 25
Fri 24th Jun 2022 2:02pm
When I was there, it was run by Mr Hanson and his sister and neither was young. I don't think they would be there in the 80's. He once said to me that he earned more staying in bed and share dealing than he did working all day in the shop, so I think he was ready to retire then. |
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Midland Red
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24 of 25
Fri 24th Jun 2022 3:59pm
In the 1939 Register, Arthur Hanson (butcher) and his wife Catherine were listed, together with son John (butcher and farmer, born 1909) and daughter Margaret (born 1913).
Arthur died in 1940, Catherine in 1962, both still at Longford Road, as was Margaret when she died in 1973 - she left a goodly sum!!!
John died in 1983, his address was The Firs, Wilsons Lane, and he too left a goodly sum!!! |
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Not Local
Bedworth
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25 of 25
Fri 24th Jun 2022 4:40pm
If you went to President Kennedy in the 80's and dissected pigs' trotters during Biology lessons then Hansons was the shop where the laboratory technicians bought them. |
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