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Midland Red

91 of 160  Tue 5th Apr 2022 10:14pm  

Any mention of the Butts Stadium always reminds me of my pal Jack.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
92 of 160  Mon 22nd Aug 2022 11:33am  

© Coventry Digital
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NeilsYard
Coventry
93 of 160  Mon 22nd Aug 2022 1:53pm  

And another for Colin - © Coventry Digital
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Harrier
Coventry
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94 of 160  Mon 5th Sep 2022 10:23am  

This is proving difficult, being in black and white! It is a walking race - the first man could be a Worcester walker or it could be a GB vest. Whichever, he was pretty “smoky” as the second walker (at the top of the straight in the distance) is George Chaplin (Godiva Harriers) who was no mean performer. The man doing the timing is wearing an interesting jacket and it looks like an eyepatch [that is not intended as a clever pun]. Will look through some old results to see if I can solve it [ditto].
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NeilsYard
Coventry
95 of 160  Fri 16th Sep 2022 4:57pm  

Another one for you, Colin, from the Arthur Cooper collection on Coventry Digital.
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JohnnieWalker
Sanctuary Point, Australia
96 of 160  Fri 16th Sep 2022 9:55pm  

Nice one, NY! Do you know what year? Number 283 on the right could possibly have been me, but I think it's someone who looks a bit like me. I ran for Godiva between 1961 and 1964 and had my club badge (which I still have) stitched on my vest exactly like that.
True Blue Coventry Kid

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Harrier
Coventry
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97 of 160  Sun 18th Sep 2022 4:22pm  

Come on, NeilsYard.... you ain't half making my life difficult. I'm losing all credibility!!!
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NeilsYard
Coventry
98 of 160  Tue 20th Sep 2022 9:42am  

Sorry, Johnnie, no date on it.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
99 of 160  Thu 22nd Sep 2022 5:06pm  

I'm not sure if this is showing the right way around? © Coventry Digital and the Arthur Cooper collection again!
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Harrier
Coventry
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100 of 160  Fri 23rd Sep 2022 11:37am  

Boy, here we go again!!!! The big building (technical college??) is in the wrong position (perspective?? - see earlier photo). Even if it is the wrong way round (which I question because the trianglar roofed buildings are in the correct position with the stand just out of view on the right of the photo) it still has to be the back straight, so what event can this be? The hurdle spacing suggests it must be near the end of the race but remember the Butts track was only 360 yards - the bottom lane of the cycle track was 440 yards and there was a small narrow lane (for a long time grass as in this photo, bottom left) between the tarmac of the cycle banked track and the cinder track (converted from grass in the early August 1955 to cinders). What could the narrow 'path' running about a yard on the grass inside the track be? Almost certainly a run up to what appears to be a long jump pit (the bags of the long jumpers can be seen just behind and in front of the second hurdler on the grass infield), this idea reinforced by what looks like another run up on the other side of the pit but off set which would have meant a choice of run up to be decided by the direction of the following wind. The hurdles look rather low, the correct height should have been 91cm (99cm if the event was shorter than 440 yards) which means the leader must be hurdling at a height of nearly 2 metres.... no way! That is a high jump!! There is a distinct lack of spectators, suggesting this was an inter club. So what does all this ramble mean? It means I will be spending the next couple of weeks searching back copies of the Coventry Evening Telegraph.
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Helen F
Warrington
101 of 160  Fri 23rd Sep 2022 12:19pm  

As far as I can gather the pics are the right way round. The big building in the last photo is I think GEC? The zig zag roof has the long edge to the right and the short drop to the left. The photos are taken at different angles with the first looking to the right of the stand. The second to the left of the stand and the third even further to the left (and from the far side of the track as opposed to in the middle). This might help.
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JohnnieWalker
Sanctuary Point, Australia
102 of 160  Fri 23rd Sep 2022 9:49pm  

The distance between hurdles suggests it could only be a 220 yards hurdles race. The 110 hurdles race would have hurdles in a straight line, and the 440 yards race (what a bugger of a race that was - I did it many times with muscles screaming well before the end!) would have bigger gaps on the back straight, which is, I think, where the long jump pit was.
True Blue Coventry Kid

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bk
Coventry
103 of 160  Sat 24th Sep 2022 10:30am  

Just on the Arthur Cooper archive. The latest images seem to be 1962 (Arthur Waugh Snr as Mayor) and most are 1950s. Earliest are wartime. Arthur might have moved to a film camera in 1962, hence the abrupt end to these glass negatives. We're slowly adding what we know to the collection on a spreadsheet, which I can provide access to. There are quite a few races, bike and foot, so any help with these would be most welcome. Please email me if you'd like access. Effectively, we scroll the images, find something we know about and then fill in the caption on the spreadsheet. If someone has been there already, please check accuracy or add further details.
b p kyneswood

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bk
Coventry
104 of 160  Mon 10th Oct 2022 10:44am  

Is this Butts Stadium? Ben
b p kyneswood

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NeilsYard
Coventry
105 of 160  Mon 10th Oct 2022 11:21am  

Don't think so, Ben. No sign of the banking for the cycle track. It was all around the outside of the cinder running track and was there right into the 1980's.
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