mcsporran
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Tue 30th Jan 2024 5:47am
I can confirm that there were no Piquerez names anywhere in the census of 1921, not even Scotland.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Wed 16th Oct 2024 11:13am
This colourised image has just appeared on FB. I'm pretty sure it's Cross Cheaping looking North and the same area where that destroyed Bus was photographed (opposite the Owen's that was there then) - which we have images of earlier in this thread. You can see the same Bus Stop sign to Keresley -
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Wed 16th Oct 2024 11:32am
Funny how the smallest clue can say so much.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Wed 29th Jan 2025 4:51pm
Another new image to me (though obviously a photo of a photo) - a great though sad image looking up along the side of High St (Waters and The Bear visible), with what would be Martins Bank in the centre and the desolation of Pepper Lane all around - This must have been taken from the rear of a ruined Broadgate property?
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Wed 29th Jan 2025 5:20pm
I'd guess it was taken from the top of Burtons? Very early on as very little of the debris has been shifted.
The photo suggests to me that the building on the corner was a brick clad timber frame.
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rocksolid
Bristol |
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Thu 30th Jan 2025 8:59am
Neil,
This is a most extraordinary image, one I thought I'd never see, wherever did you find it?
I don't know if it's my imagination but it could almost be a composite view though I can't see any obvious 'join' in the middle. The only possible place it could have been taken is the roof of Burton's, and judging by the angle from the far left of that building looking over Broadgate but why is there nothing of the roadway in the foreground? Very strange. There is just a suspicion of what looks like a girder in the bottom left corner, I wonder if it was originally a larger view that's been cropped at the base?
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Thu 30th Jan 2025 11:19am
I think that you can't see the road because it is below the view. They've started pulling down standing bits of wall further into the block. You can see from the pictures below (click on pictures to expand at the IWM) that there were standing walls and they're pulling on ropes to bring them down. I think you might be right about it being a composite, you can see a colour change and a point on the upper walls at the back of Martin's bank. The left hand side might be from further over to the left.
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Thu 30th Jan 2025 12:30pm
Sorry guys I appear to have got that one wrong! The picture came from a chap on FB who found it in an auction. It was apparently taken on Friday 15th November the day after the blitz by Mr Edward Brimelow who was formerly the manger of Martins Bank. It is indeed taken from the Bank roof. He was know a 'Brim' by everyone and became general manager. He sadly passed away in April '84.
You can see that end building in this one along with the bank - both 'ends' appear similar hence the initial confusion.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry |
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Thu 30th Jan 2025 3:40pm
That caught me out too, Neil - I'd virtually convinced myself that we were looking at Martins Bank, rather than from it!
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Thu 30th Jan 2025 3:49pm
I even looked up a picture of the temporary shop they built in the gap, to look at the wall, after they'd removed the timbers
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Thu 30th Jan 2025 5:14pm
It does make you realise how lucky we were that the Martins Bank building surviv............................
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rocksolid
Bristol |
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Thu 19th Jun 2025 9:00pm
https://picstory.co.uk/id/00101175
What I find strange is that although the ground floor of Burton's shop has been reduced to ash, on the first floor there appear to be tables in the Venetian Restaurant still set for meals!
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Diesel74
Cornwall |
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Sat 21st Jun 2025 7:04pm
On 16th Oct 2024 11:13am, NeilsYard said:
This colourised image has just appeared on FB. I'm pretty sure it's Cross Cheaping looking North and the same area where that destroyed Bus was photographed (opposite the Owen's that was there then) - which we have images of earlier in this thread. You can see the same Bus Stop sign to Keresley -
I saw the picture on FB but couldn't tell where it was.
How bad was Cross Cheaping and the Burges hit? I know about Owen Owen's, but the rest looks 'gone'.
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Diesel74
Cornwall |
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Sat 21st Jun 2025 7:05pm
I guess the same question as above goes for the third picture here.
Cross Cheaping pretty much vanished.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry |
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Sun 22nd Jun 2025 9:56am
Judging by what we can still see today - and nicely restored in many cases - the south "Broadgate" end of Cross Cheaping pretty much disappeared, while the closer you get to Bishop Street, including most of Burges, many of the buildings survived or were able to be returned to use again.
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