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Midland Red

46 of 63  Fri 29th Jan 2021 7:19pm  

On 18th Jan 2021 5:52pm, NeilsYard said: Well blow me. Thanks to Malvern Carvell on FB. I'm amazed they did it that way!
This view - thanks to John Gilbert on FB - clarifies things a bit more. Thumbs up
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Midland Red

47 of 63  Tue 2nd Feb 2021 4:12pm  

Thanks again to John Gilbert on FB for another view Thumbs up
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Prof
Gloucester
48 of 63  Wed 2nd Jun 2021 7:09pm  

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Prof
Gloucester
49 of 63  Fri 18th Jun 2021 6:51pm  

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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
50 of 63  Sat 19th Jun 2021 9:08am  

Hi all, I love so many of the trading & professional names associated with Coventry. Even "Are you being served", couldn't match the names in that list. Rather than poke fun at actual specific names, we could invent some. Even off the previous photo, "Nunsgalore", or "Horse&Lumps".
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Helen F
51 of 63  Sat 19th Jun 2021 10:01am  
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bk
Coventry
52 of 63  Wed 12th Oct 2022 9:55am  

Nice image by Appleby of Fleet Street and St John's - these came from Appleby's grandson, along with a few others. If you search Pritchard or look in the gallery for Appleby, there's a few lovely shots. Post copied from topic St John's Church, Fleet Street on 12th Oct 2022 12:15 pm
b p kyneswood

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David H
Lancashire
53 of 63  Sun 6th Nov 2022 2:33pm  

I have been doing a bit of ancestry, and appear to have a relative who lived on Fleet Street in Coventry in 1901. His address is recorded as 6 Court 10h. I believe that the h relates to the house number. The house had, I think, one ground floor kitchen, and two upstairs bedrooms. This sounds like the dwellings in the Bedworth Yards which existed through alleys and archways behind the shopfronts and properties on the main roads. Does anyone have any information about the courts of Fleet Street?

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bk
Coventry
54 of 63  Sun 6th Nov 2022 2:56pm  

Coventry Archives is a great place to start. They've uploaded some old photographs to Coventry Digital - including the below, which isn’t the court you are after but reflects the conditions. There's more to be added, and what you are after might be in there, but they've just appointed a replacement archivist and it was the old one that was adding material.
b p kyneswood

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Heathite
Coventry
55 of 63  Sun 6th Nov 2022 3:29pm  

Does this help? 1911 directory.
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Helen F
Warrington
56 of 63  Sun 6th Nov 2022 5:57pm  

Hi David. As far as I can tell the court would have been accessed from the archway behind the car in the picture Ben (bk) posted at 52 just above. It's an odd shaped yard and it's not obvious which was number 10.
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David H
Lancashire
57 of 63  Sun 6th Nov 2022 8:46pm  

Thank you Helen, Heathite, and bk for your kind interest and help. I have now joined Coventry Digital and have spent a pleasant afternoon browsing their fascinating content. Thanks to you all I have now found out where my relative lived, and there he was on the list Heathite provided, but not at number 10 because by 1911 he had moved to what on the map seems to be a slightly larger property in the same Court. Also if you look closely at the map you can see that someone has faintly pencilled in the house numbers in Court 6, so it is possible to see just where people lived. Finally, to see the archway to the court on the photograph is a real bonus, so thanks again.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
58 of 63  Tue 10th Jan 2023 10:41am  

On 22nd Mar 2017 9:48pm, Annewiggy said: Just looking through the British newspaper archives, nothing on the TV again! An interesting look at some buildings in Fleet Street just before they are demolished. I think that is the Co-op building you can just see in the background, March 1940.
Gray Forster on the 'Coventry we used to know' FB page posted this image. It's taken on Hill Street but is that the same section on Fleet Street taken in-period in the distance?
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Helen F
Warrington
59 of 63  Tue 10th Jan 2023 11:08am  

No. The buildings in the post war photo were a small section of Fleet Street that survived the creation of Corporation Street and ended up bookended by that street at one end and West Orchard on the other. All the buildings you see in the distance on the Hill Street postcard were Hill Street and were demolished to make way for Corporation Street plus new buildings. See section demolished at BFA
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Helen F
Warrington
60 of 63  Tue 10th Jan 2023 4:14pm  

The last building visible is The White Swan at number 1 Hill Street from the very useful Coventry Pub History here.
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