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berjay
Bewdley Worcs.
31 of 43  Thu 29th Aug 2013 5:04pm  

On 28th Aug 2013 1:54pm, Midland Red said: Allsmith Ltd appear in the 1936 Telephone Directory at 31 Bayley Lane, until 1940 From 1948 to 1963 they are listed at Red Lane Thumbs up
Thanks Midland Red, I've always wondered what became of them. Cheers berjay
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Midland Red

32 of 43  Mon 14th Oct 2013 4:18pm  

On 18th Feb 2012 11:31am, PhiliPamInCoventry said: Hi all. Wave I never knew them as individuals, but I knew contractors who worked in association with them. From the hot link the two comments that I like are: 1. Mr Hall said: "I can still remember the first four houses I built on Sowe Common in Wyken nearly 70 years ago. I must have done a good job because my son Robert is Robert I, Duke of Normandy. Robert I (Robert the Magnificent), d.1035, Duke of Normandy (1027-35); father of William the Conqueror. He is often identified with the legendary Robert the Devil. Now selling to the third generation of people to buy our homes!" 2. Mr Youell, who is the "son" in Coventry firm EK Youell and Son, said: "Bob showed me how to lay bricks when we were both apprentices. Although I prefer to think of it as laying 'artistically burned clay'. Both before and after the war, the rival firms built thousands of homes in the Walsgrave area. At one stage their workforces both had cricket teams which competed against each other throughout the season. Thank you, I like it. Cheers
Here's a Youell ad from 1948
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Midland Red

33 of 43  Mon 14th Oct 2013 6:43pm  

Another well-known Coventry builders - an ad here from 1958
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Astons Garages
Hinckley
34 of 43  Mon 21st Oct 2013 11:13am  

Likerealm Builder had yard in Coventry based in Napton did a lot of work in Coventry any one remember them
David Aston Historian of Astons Garages and Light Cars Coventry

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Mick Strong
Coventry
35 of 43  Mon 21st Oct 2013 1:08pm  

On 28th Aug 2013 1:18pm, Bertiewoost said: I remember as a kid, helping a gardener in Station Avenue, Tile Hill village. He tended the gardens of a builder by the name, I think, of G.J. Tommy & Son. Lived in the house on the right just before Duggins Lane. I think he had a small yard just before the level crossing that was. Does anybody remember, or used him, in the village??
The yard is still there, not sure what it is used for now.
Mick Strong

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gangan
Stockton, Southam
36 of 43  Mon 21st Oct 2013 8:04pm  

Didn't Garlicks have a site in Silverton Road, Paradise? I recall my grandparents who lived in Silverton Road telling me that a row of houses were bombed and Garlicks used to store their vehicles on the site in the 50s
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Midland Red

37 of 43  Mon 21st Oct 2013 8:14pm  

The 1942 Telephone Directory shows them to be in Crabmill Lane Thumbs up
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Midland Red

38 of 43  Wed 27th Aug 2014 7:42am  

From today's Coventry Telegraph: YOUELL Alfred Edward (Alf) ONZM MBE FCIOB After two and a half years of helping medical science Alf has returned home and the service of committal will be on Monday 8th September at Cannon Hill Chapel, Canley Crematorium at 12 noon. Refreshments afterwards. Enquiries to Henry Ison & Sons 76-78 Binley Road, Coventry. CV3 1FQ. 024 76458 665
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artful
lancashire
39 of 43  Fri 29th Aug 2014 8:58pm  

F. Hocking & Sons had their offices and yard on Ball Hill. They built the Norton Hill Estate at Walsgrave, The electrical installation was done by Storr & Townsend of Jubilee Crescent, Radford. W.O. Baker the Coventry plumbers also built houses on the Potters Green and Ernsford Grange estates. All of the above was in the 50s and early 60s.
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Roger T
Torksey
40 of 43  Sat 30th Aug 2014 6:00pm  

During the years 1951-53, I lived in Allesley and was on summer leave from a Merchant Navy Training School. Looked for a summer job on a building site. James and Edwards were building a row of shops in Allesley village opposite the Post Office. Saw Mr. Edwards, I think it was, and he gave me a job as a general labourer, my first duty was to start up the machines in the morning - plus shovelling the aggregate into the concrete skips once they were going. Saw the foreman on the first day, who concluded his lecture with the words "don`t ever smoke these" (packet of Woodbines waived under my nose accompanied by a bout of hacking coughing). After a week or so, I was put with a couple of Irish chippies who were doing the first floor shuttering. They put me up to it. Irish bloke "How much is he paying you?" Me "One shilling an hour" (seem to remember that was the rate) Irish bloke "Well you are a chippie now, he should be paying you more for this job, ask him for a rise when you get your pay on Friday" I duly asked for a rise and got an extra three pence per hour
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DBC
Nottinghamshire
41 of 43  Sun 31st Aug 2014 10:50am  

My wife has just told me that Youell's owned the parade of shops in Ash Green where she had her hairdressing salon in the late 60's.
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matchle55
Coventry
42 of 43  Sun 31st Aug 2014 11:14am  

On 24th Feb 2012 6:51pm, GVB said: I lived opposite Annie Osborne school in Wyken Croft in the early 90's. I was in the process of building an extension to my house and Halls were building a retirement complex off Gresley Road behind my house. I needed some bricks for my footings and thought I might buy some from the building site. I went round and spoke to Mr Hall (senior). He said leave it with me and then sent his digger driver round with a pack (about 400) of bricks for nothing. He certainly knew how to keep in with the neighbours. Nice guy!!
In the early 70s I was working for Deeleys on a site bounded by Harnall Lane and Adelaide Street, opposite was a site run by the same Mr Hall. One day he came across and gently chided me for upsetting his digger driver, he had an old worn out machine and mine was nearly new, he was a nice man, we often had a word
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Midland Red

43 of 43  Wed 7th Sep 2016 3:03pm  

In yesterday's "On this day" section in the Coventry Telegraph was this photo of Alf and Valerie Youell on their wedding day in 1977 Cheers A fine man, sadly missed
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