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Midland Red
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Wed 14th Oct 2015 6:21pm
On 7th Aug 2015 8:51am, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Hi all
Co-op won't be knocked down as architects detail ambitious plans
More comments regards the closure of the Coventry Co-op central store.
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| Dreamtime |
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Thu 15th Oct 2015 4:52am
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Derrickarthur
Coventry |
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Thu 15th Oct 2015 11:42pm
Visited the Co-op in Corporation Street on Monday. Very depressing and felt very sad about its demise
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mickw
nuneaton |
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Thu 15th Oct 2015 11:55pm
Looks like there won't be any last minute bargains to be had. |
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Prof
Gloucester |
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Sun 18th Oct 2015 4:05pm
Yes. there was Men's Outfitting on the first floor and they also sold school uniforms. I worked there in the mid 50s on vacation from College in Bristol. Does anyone recall the unusual lifts (copied I think from a store in Berlin)? They were in perpetual motion so you had to jump in and out at just the right moment as the floor level was always on the move. |
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Prof
Gloucester |
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Sun 18th Oct 2015 4:10pm
On 24th Feb 2015 1:46am, Dreamtime said:
Oh dear, my dear father in law - Cyril Roberts - would have been sad to read that. (Gents outfitter's, 50's to 60's).
Thanks for the link Vernon.
Yes I knew Cyril, a very nice man (Mr Roberts to me of course) when I worked in the men's outfitting every long vacation from College in Bristol. |
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Prof
Gloucester |
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Sun 18th Oct 2015 4:20pm
On 10th Sep 2012 5:19pm, Foxcote said:
My dad-in-law was Mr Harrison, he was there at the time you worked there. As a teenager, my husband used to love visiting the store and he asks you if you can remember who Santa was. Do you remember Len Day or Fred Price as being Santa at that time. Sounds as if you loved it there. It sounded just like 'Are you Being Served' when my husband describes it at that time. He has never had a bad word for any of the staff there, it sounded a great environment to work in.
Was this Mr Harrison any relation to Graham Harrison who worked at the Co-op when I was there (men's outfitting) in the mid/late 50s? |
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Midland Red
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Fri 23rd Oct 2015 2:00pm
Final hours for Co-op  |
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia |
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Fri 23rd Oct 2015 2:28pm
Will be gone but not forgotten!
Same for the Herbert and now they say bacon butties are not good for you.
It's all doom and gloom on the Forum tonight.
Please someone send me some good news.  |
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Midland Red
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Fri 23rd Oct 2015 2:35pm
On 23rd Oct 2015 2:28pm, Dreamtime said:
Please someone send me some good news.
Just looked on the Cov Telegraph site - can't see any good news there
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia |
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Fri 23rd Oct 2015 4:16pm
Never mind all, tomorrow is another day and you can all have a lie in! |
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BandBinCovPhil
Coventry |
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Sun 25th Oct 2015 1:38pm
I noticed that the Coventry Evening Telegraph stated that 'Architects say that the building, which has survived the Blitz' ("Shutters come down") whereas, being as I was a kid in the early fifties I was sure that the Co-op building was built after the war as part of the regeneration of Corporation Street. Could anyone confirm this or is it is a case of memories becoming faded?
Phil Question |
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mcsporran
Coventry & Cebu |
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Sun 25th Oct 2015 2:00pm
It also says the store opened in 1956, which I'm sure is after the war!
Foundation stone |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 25th Oct 2015 2:42pm
The shops and offices on the corner are pre-war but were not owned by the Co-Op at that time. A start on the modern section was made before the war but abandoned when hostilities broke out. The Co-Op was extremely reluctant to move into Corporation Street, preferring to rebuild in Fleet Street instead.
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keeepa
coventry |
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Sun 25th Oct 2015 8:45pm
just having an argument /discussion does anyone remember what the rates of dividend paid in the 1960's I think 2/6 in the pound they think 1/- I should remember I used to go round and pay it out jeff
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