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NeilsYard
Coventry
16 of 190  Tue 22nd Nov 2016 9:11pm  

This is an interesting shot of High Street - taken from Little Park Street before the Council House was built (so I reckon about 1912'ish). I love that lamp-post! You can still see those shop fronts in Rob's photo here (taken from High Street) - about to disappear!
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dutchman
Spon End
17 of 190  Tue 22nd Nov 2016 10:10pm  

I think you mean Earl Street? Smile
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NeilsYard
Coventry
18 of 190  Tue 22nd Nov 2016 10:14pm  

Ah yes Dutchman - I'm forgetting where one ends and the other starts!
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NeilsYard
Coventry
19 of 190  Thu 24th Nov 2016 8:19pm  

By sheer coincidence - I think these are those very same shop fronts I posted above!! Thumbs up
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NeilsYard
Coventry
20 of 190  Thu 19th Jan 2017 8:37pm  

Helen - I'm sure you have mentioned this before but any idea why that gap besides those shop fronts on Earl St before the Council House went up? I'm looking at a 1900 or so map and there's still nothing along that area.
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Helen F
Warrington
21 of 190  Thu 19th Jan 2017 9:52pm  

It seemed to take a long time from the demolition of the first buildings until they started the Council House. So much time, that in one painting there was even a lawned area between St Mary's Hall and Earl Street in 1908. They were all there in 1850. By 1889 numbers 14-18 which looked like they were all half timbered 2 storey buildings had gone but the court no2 behind 14 survived and that was mostly half timbered too. J Simpsons owned 5-13. All three storey and mostly brick but of varying ages. At least one of those number 4/5 was still there when they started the clearance for building. You can see the back of it in a photo taken from St Michael's steeple. Court 2 seemed to be demolished at the same time and can be seen still standing in photos showing Earl Street with Maycock's on the left. The last group owned by Maycock's was still there as they were building the Council House. I think I heard somewhere that they didn't want to sell. I'm guessing it took a long time to gain possession of all the plots. The easiest to persuade were those in older 2 storey buildings.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
22 of 190  Thu 19th Jan 2017 11:26pm  

This is what I was looking at - I think that's about 1900, and not a lot there at that time!
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
23 of 190  Sat 27th Jan 2018 12:04pm  

An interesting view from Earl Street before the Council House was built, from Levi Fox's Coventry's Heritage
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coventry49
Budleigh Salterton, Devon
24 of 190  Sat 27th Jan 2018 9:15pm  

In the map above Anne's picture, is that Old Palace Yard opposite the Police Station and near the letters 'RE' in the word Street?

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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
25 of 190  Sat 27th Jan 2018 9:42pm  

Almost certainly, yes! Thumbs up
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coventry49
Budleigh Salterton, Devon
26 of 190  Sun 28th Jan 2018 2:13pm  

Thanks Rob - I thought it must be!
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NeilsYard
Coventry
27 of 190  Mon 12th Mar 2018 2:04pm  

Helen - I've found this one in one of my books. Need to establish the date but obviously pre-Council House and those shops are still there so pre 1910ish?
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Helen F
Warrington
28 of 190  Mon 12th Mar 2018 3:12pm  

It must be about then, although there's a window of time where the buildings still standing on the left were isolated after the ones in between were demolished, and the final demolition. The distant one on the left was the same one you can just see in the Phipson 1908 picture that Anne posted. Even by that point it had lost the street frontage. So later than 1897 but before 1912.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
29 of 190  Mon 12th Mar 2018 4:36pm  

I wonder if it is the parade of the Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth, that came to Coventry in October 1898. The show was to be on the Agricultural Show Ground on the Birmingham Road (I have yet to find out where that was, it may be the same place that Buffalo Bill had his show which was where the Alvis site was). The parade was to go through the town including Earl Street. The parade featured a team of 40 horses. Sorry forget that, just read another article that says the parade was cancelled because it rained !! Nothing changes.
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pixrobin
Canley
30 of 190  Fri 11th May 2018 2:22pm  

Don't know if anyone has noticed but the space below the listed Architect's offices and the courtyard beyond have been blocked off
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