
Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 1 of 111 Sat 26th Jan 2013 10:59am : Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:710 View towards Stoke, 1936.
It is supposed to have been taken from the Cathedral Spire.
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 2 of 111 Sat 26th Jan 2013 5:31pm : Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2632 Don't think it is Foxcote? Doesn't look anything like the view from the Cathedral. |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 111 Sun 27th Jan 2013 9:34am : Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:710 Could it be taken from a church then Dutchman? |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 4 of 111 Sun 27th Jan 2013 10:53am : Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:668 I have checked this out with a photo I have taken from the spire, if you look at the very bottom the finials can be seen, which are the same, the roof is still intact, yet I don't recognise anything else in your photo. I am probably wrong but there you go. ![]() Milly rules |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 111 Sun 27th Jan 2013 11:16am : Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:710 Thanks for taking a look NormK, I can see the finials now and the building at the bottom to the right with the cross.
There's quite a few 'substantial' old buildings to the bottom left, I'll have another look at them. ![]() |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member Thread starter | 6 of 111 Sun 27th Jan 2013 11:44am : Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:710 There appears to be a really strange circular design on the side of that factory building on the right hand side, next to the chimney. |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 7 of 111 Sun 27th Jan 2013 11:57am : Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:668 ![]() ![]() Milly rules |
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scrutiny coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 111 Sun 27th Jan 2013 12:38pm : Joined Feb 2010 Total posts:685 You're right about the BTH emblem on the end of the building, Norm, but from the angle of the photo it should be on the left. I used to see that emblem everyday through my childhood, it was only 100yds down the road and you could see it from our backyard. Unless the negative has been reversed but even then it does not look right. At the opposite end should be a hill leading up to South Street School, no hill. Beginning to doubt if it is even Coventry. ![]() |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member Thread starter | 9 of 111 Sun 27th Jan 2013 8:22pm : Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:710 Well, it doesn't sound as if it is Coventry does it. I just looked on a site to see where there were other BTH factories and found that there were lots. It was a really interesting read with lots of advertisements, so even if the I got the photo wrong, I found out about The British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 10 of 111 Tue 29th Jan 2013 4:24pm Moderator, : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5086 I've been studying this image and am almost 100% certain it isn't Coventry as there isn't one feature which suggests otherwise ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 11 of 111 Tue 29th Jan 2013 5:19pm : Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2632 There's a superficial resemblance but everything is in the wrong place. Also the terrain is too flat and the roads too straight to be in Coventry. |
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Geoff Stratford All posts by this member | 12 of 111 Tue 29th Jan 2013 6:39pm : Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:10 Hello everyone
I have been an avid reader of this forum for some time but this is my first post on any forum, so please be gentle with me!
This photo has intrigued me and I wondered if it might be a mirror image of what we should be seeing.
The gabled building in the foreground looks remarkably similar to a photo on the Coventry message board local history forum entitled "Birds eye view of Coventry in the sixties". This shows a photo taken from a similar position to the 1936 shot.
If the original photo is looked at in mirror image then the buildings directly in front of the cathedral look the same as the 1960s photo. Could this be the corner of Priory Street and New Street? |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 13 of 111 Tue 29th Jan 2013 7:05pm : Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2632 Hello Geoff ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 14 of 111 Tue 29th Jan 2013 8:42pm Webmaster, : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1561 Oh, good grief !!! How could I not have noticed that? I spent ages trying to compare that aerial view, both normally and mirror-image, with photos that I've taken from the cathedral spire looking towards the Stoke area, and I just couldn't match up the streets - I was ready to agree that it probably wasn't Coventry.
But then when Dutchman mentioned Godiva Street, etc., I realised that it was probably New Street straight ahead.... and then.... oh my goodness, how could we have missed the actual roof of the cathedral apse right in front of us! ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 15 of 111 Wed 30th Jan 2013 8:35am Moderator, : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5086 OK - is this how it should look?
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