BrotherJoybert Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 76 Tue 9th Feb 2010 1:43pm : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:181 From the photo sharing website, flickr:
Dunlop No 1 Drawing Office 1950's
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 2 of 76 Tue 4th Dec 2012 10:09pm : Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1430 Passing the old grounds of the Dunlop I noticed it was to let 50p per square metre. I thought what a shame such waste. I then thought why are they not using this land for building houses instead of building on the green belt, it would still earn money |
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Baz Coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 76 Tue 11th Dec 2012 8:22pm : Joined May 2012 Total posts:302 I've seen trucks just today going in there Morgana. Looks like you may have spoken too soon. Don't know what they are doing, but in the midst, there was a digger. They do seem to be clearing that bit of land. I don't know the gate no. but it is next to the sports ground on Burnaby Rd. ![]() Always looking forward to looking at the past. |
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 4 of 76 Tue 11th Dec 2012 10:44pm : Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1430 Thank you Baz ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 5 of 76 Sat 15th Dec 2012 4:38pm : Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:797 I think the old Dunlop site has planning app in for a housing estate.
Dunlop are moving to a new factory at Prologis Park, I think.
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 6 of 76 Sat 15th Dec 2012 4:44pm : Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1430 Thank you Flapdoodle ![]() |
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Ron Back home in Coventry All posts by this member | 7 of 76 Thu 31st Oct 2013 12:28pm : Joined Jul 2013 Total posts:93 On 24th Oct 2013 7:49pm, Annewiggy said:
Thought I'd posted this but it seems to have disappeared! Regarding the railway line in Burnaby Road, in the book "We reinvented the wheel" by Ron Vice there is a picture taken in 2002 showing the track between 24 and 26 Burnaby Road, showing the line still in position but covered by weeds and the shed where "Tin Lizzie" once stood. There is also a diagram showing two lines going through Burnaby Road, one half way between the Pilot and Holbrook Lane from opposite the White House, and another close to Holbrook Lane. They join close to the Black Pad bridge and continue towards the munitions sidings. Unfortunately it does not show if they join the main line. I can't post the pictures on here as it is a fairly recent book.
The Munitions Sidings was the point at which this bit of railway joined the Coventry to Nuneaton line.
The 'Burnaby Road' site was first built by White and Poppe to meet a contract they had from the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War, for the manufacture of fuses and their insertion into shells. The railway was built to bring materials in, and move completed shells out. The loaded wagons were collected from the Munitions Sidings (hence the name) and moved onwards by the London and North Western Railway.
After the end of hostilities, White and Poppe no longer required the entire factory. This led to the first establishment of Dunlop and its later associated businesses on the site. White and Poppe finally closed in the early 1930s, by which time Dunlops business was growing at a such a pace that they took over the entire factory, and indeed later expanded outside of the original site. The railway continued to bring materials in, but by now it was scrap metal that was moved off the site by rail.
Contrary to what some people might remember, the railway had ceased to operate by at least early 1963, although the exact date is proving a bit of a problem to establish. Certainly the connection over Black Pad was well and truly rusted in that June. The internal user wagons were stored in the sidings alongside the Black Pad footpath, where they were all later scrapped.
This railway was actually operated as a seperate concern, The Whitmore Park Private Estates Railway Ltd, which in later years was entirely owned by Dunlop. Should anybody have ANY photographs taken anywhere on this railway, I would be delighted to see them. |
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Ron Back home in Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 76 Thu 31st Oct 2013 12:46pm : Joined Jul 2013 Total posts:93 ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 9 of 76 Tue 5th Nov 2013 8:52am Moderator, : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5040 The Dunlop railway line can be seen in these two images from "Britain from Above"
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Ron Back home in Coventry All posts by this member | 10 of 76 Tue 5th Nov 2013 12:39pm : Joined Jul 2013 Total posts:93 Thank you very much! |
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kate88 nuneaton All posts by this member | 11 of 76 Tue 4th Feb 2014 11:25am : Joined Feb 2014 Total posts:4 Hi, does anybody remember the Dunlop fair in Lythalls Lane in the 1950's and 60's? Has anyone got any photos? |
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PhiliPamInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 12 of 76 Tue 4th Feb 2014 12:05pm Moderator, : Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3821 Hello Kate & welcome to our forum ![]() |
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Disorganised1 Coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 76 Wed 5th Feb 2014 2:21am : Joined Nov 2012 Total posts:219 I remember it - on the St Luke's fields behind the houses by Sunningdale Avenue. I once won a 'pig' in bowling for a pig when I was about 7.
I was quite happy when I found out the 'pig' was Ten Bob. I remember entering the balloon race, and watching it get stuck in a tree. I was taken by my autie Doris and Uncle Tad. Ted and Doris Harper, the lived in Rotherham Road.
Sorry - no pictures. |
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Tommo58 Coventry All posts by this member | 14 of 76 Wed 5th Feb 2014 11:29pm : Joined May 2013 Total posts:20 I remember the Dunlop fair very well. I lived just off Lythalls Lane nearly opposite the entrance to the Dunlop sports field, it was one of the highlights of our year to spend the whole day (always a Saturday) over the Dunlop. The show ring always in the middle of the field there would be many interesting shows to watch and in between shows walk around the fair which was always set up along the back of the field near to the railway lines. My mum loved the darts stalls and we always ended up with numerous goldfish and dinner plates. Before the fair we would watch the marquees and the fairground rides being erected and of course watching them come down afterwards, it was also a major operation to get the fairground vehicles onto the field as the entrance on Lythalls Lane was very narrow though it was later widened and gated. Sadly shortly after the fair was stopped but they were certainly happy times.
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 15 of 76 Thu 13th Oct 2016 11:34am : Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3362 Tommo58, I lived in Lythalls Lane for a short spell, about two doors from the entrance to the playing field, the cinder path came round between our garage and the field, but we were there through the winter, so never saw the fair. |
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