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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
91 of 104  Fri 15th Jul 2022 4:11pm  

Ah, you found it too! A few days ago I used that very same article to produce this article of my own Thumbs up
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Prof
Gloucester
92 of 104  Sun 17th Jul 2022 8:06pm  

Fantastic your article, Rob. What memories! You would not have known Duckham's ironmongers (and I believe sold Duckham's oil I needed for my Lambretta scooter) in the old photo, nearest the camera. I think the post office was next door, nearer to the entry to the famed fish & chip shop we all used.
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bk
Coventry
93 of 104  Wed 19th Oct 2022 11:09am  

The JJ Ward Archive on Cov Dig is a super resource - you'll see the earliest colour photography of Coventry as well as some of the neg scans of Coventry's most well known postcards. However, my favourite is this, Stoke Pool. It's about 1910 as the skinny lad looking at the camera is Ward's son.
b p kyneswood

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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
94 of 104  Thu 20th Oct 2022 10:19am  

A fantastic photo, full of life and fun. The pool was built in 1933 though, so that's the earliest date this picture can be.
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Prof
Gloucester
95 of 104  Thu 20th Oct 2022 3:02pm  

What is the square (red brick?) building centre right? I don't recall any such in later times!
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
96 of 104  Thu 20th Oct 2022 5:18pm  

I'm not sure, Prof. Zooming in on it, it looks like it could be a wooden structure - maybe temporary?
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bk
Coventry
97 of 104  Mon 31st Oct 2022 2:42pm  

On 20th Oct 2022 10:19am, Rob Orland said: A fantastic photo, full of life and fun. The pool was built in 1933 though, so that's the earliest date this picture can be.
The little boy in the foreground is the ten year old son of the photographer - dating this to 1911. Perhaps the pool was refurbished in 1933?
b p kyneswood

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Helen F
Warrington
98 of 104  Mon 31st Oct 2022 3:13pm  

Rob has an early photo of the pool here. That and the map from 1926 suggest that there was no concrete bund wall before then.
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Helen F
Warrington
99 of 104  Mon 31st Oct 2022 3:30pm  

On 20th Oct 2022 3:02pm, Prof said: What is the square (red brick?) building centre right? I don't recall any such in later times!
There are lavatories marked on the 1937 onwards maps. These might be them?
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Midland Red

100 of 104  Mon 31st Oct 2022 5:44pm  

On 20th Oct 2022 10:19am, Rob Orland said: A fantastic photo, full of life and fun. The pool was built in 1933 though, so that's the earliest date this picture can be.
According to local newspapers, the paddling pool was opened in July 1924, and there is a photo in 1932 which shows the concrete wall.
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Slash1
northampton
101 of 104  Wed 2nd Nov 2022 11:15pm  

Our families, our mum and her two sisters and all the children, about 15 in all, used to gather here for picnics and paddling etc., late 1940’s/early 1950’s. We had some brilliant times. Prior to Covid, us remaining cousins used to meet up too.
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lindatee2002
Virginia USA
102 of 104  Thu 3rd Nov 2022 11:56am  

Hope you get together there again in the future.
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Prof
Gloucester
103 of 104  Mon 21st Nov 2022 4:15pm  

Stoke National School. Thanks for your help, Rob! Members don't forget to click top right for FULL SCREEN!
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oldndazed
Coventry
104 of 104  Sun 11th Dec 2022 5:47pm  

On 15th Jul 2022 2:07pm, Prof said: Rob, I am amazed that it is thirties so long after Queen Victoria (d.1901). King Edward Vll might have been King Emperor but this is the Empress Building and for why? Do we know who opened it? Something The Coventry Society should whittle out maybe?
Prof. I did some searching some time ago as to perhaps why it was called Empress Building. I found there was a ship named Empress of Great Britain built in John Brown shipyard in Scotland, first sailed in 1931. Maybe during the last gasp of the Empire it was named after this ship (second of three).
bettymay

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