TonyS
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Mon 15th Jun 2015 10:21am
On 14th Jun 2015 5:02pm, Midland Red said:
Well remember Wheatcrofts - old fashioned hardware shop, the type where you could get both four candles and fork 'andles
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I once purchased a washer from there - that's a SINGLE washer, not a box full. (some might say no wonder they closed!)
On 14th Jun 2015 5:29pm, Dillotford said:
...Other shops fish and chips at the Cheylesmore pub end...
The Three Spires Fish Bar - I remember buying "3d of chips & scratchings" there in the 1950's! |
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Mon 15th Jun 2015 5:10pm
Really wish we had a place like Wheatcrofts back; selling single washers and rolls of book cover. I was told that they used to have a paraffin pump in the shop (obviously before the days of health and safety ![Smile Smile](../resource/emoticons/Smile.gif) ) and creaky wooden floors. Places like B&Q and Homebase must have decimated such small businesses. We're really lucky to still have a relatively diverse set of shops in Daventry Road, many of the old parades of shops have become saturated with estate agents and betting shops.
@TonyS- it's hard to believe the Three Spires chip shop is over 50 years old: Cheylesmore chip shop owners celebrate 50 years in business.
Also came across some old photos of Martins Bank (where Barclays is now): link.
Would I be right in thinking that "Sturman & Heywood Ltd. greengrocers. 34 Daventry 'bldgs.', Daventry Rd." is the same greengrocers as the now closed "G.S. HEYWOOD & SONS" greengrocers? |
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mayjan
Green Lane,Coventry
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Wed 17th Jun 2015 9:31am
My uncle married one of the Wheatcroft daughters, Maureen.
I was a bridesmaid at the wedding around sixty years ago.
We had to get ready in the flat above the shop.
I can still recall the smell of our beautiful floral bouquets, mingling with the smell of paraffin as we walked through the shop to get into the wedding cars.
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Old Lincolnian
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Fri 19th Jun 2015 1:17pm
Wheatcofts did indeed have a paraffin dispenser in the shop and it did add to the wonderful smell in there. I had a paraffin blowlamp and it was the only shop that would sell paraffin in small quantities for it. |
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coventry49
Budleigh Salterton, Devon
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Fri 19th Jun 2015 7:11pm
Thank you so much for the photos and article about the chip shop - the chips were 6d in my time in the 60's! |
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Dougie
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Sat 1st Aug 2015 2:45pm
TonyS post (The Three Spires Fish Bar - I remember buying "3d of chips & scratchings" there in the 1950's!) - my wife has asked me to ask, did you live at the Cheylesmore in the 50s, after her seeing your post about the chippy and do you remember the bumps as they called them or anyone else for that matter ![Wink Wink](../resource/emoticons/Wink.gif) before they built the new shops in the middle of the others,
My wife Irene was one of the Cottom family, 11 children, the twins Irene & Lilian now aged 75, hope someone remembers them
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TonyS
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Arthur
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Sun 2nd Aug 2015 9:43am
The picture of the shops brings back fond memories, having been bombed out during the war, our first home was a brand new prefab, complete with central heating and fridge built in, and most importantly a bathroom, Crecy Road.
Moving there in 1947 the area was still brand new, they was still finding unexploded bombs in the city and the army were exploding them on Whitley Common.
We used to skate on the pool opposite the shop, it would be nice to see folks still doing that, but my guess is it has probably been filled in. |
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Midland Red
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Sun 2nd Aug 2015 9:52am
Arthur, we have a thread about Quinton Pool here! |
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Arthur
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Sun 2nd Aug 2015 11:37am
I can recall just after the war the pool would suddenly give rise to a mass exodus of frogs, tiny little creatures turning the road black as they made their way out of there, I have never in my life experienced anything like it since, just wondering if they still do that.
There wasn't an island when I lived there, think it looks better for it, thank you for the pictures. |
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Sun 2nd Aug 2015 7:22pm
Hi Arthur ![Wave Wave](../resource/emoticons/Wave.gif)
I may have mentioned this elsewhere (the memory's not what it used to be, whatever that was) but when we moved into our present house, for the first few years we seemed to be on the "frog migration route" to Quinton Pool. Hundreds of frogs would hop up the garden path over the course of a couple of days in, I seem to remember, late summer. If the back door was open they would come into the house and be unable to get out again, often going upstairs. We used to rescue them and take them to the pool. This happened every year up until about 1995.
We've always had cats and every so often one would catch a frog which we would need to rescue - if you have ever heard the noise a frog in pain makes it's ear-splitting and was often enough to make the cat drop it and run away |
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TonyS
Coventry
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Tue 4th Aug 2015 11:44am
On 2nd Aug 2015 9:43am, Arthur said:
We used to skate on the pool opposite the shop, it would be nice to see folks still doing that, but my guess is it has probably been filled in.
Although we have a separate topic on Quinton Pool, as the OP mentioned skating on the pool here, you might be interested to take a look at photo number 25 in this link - showing just that! The photo was taken on 28th December 1964 (a link also posted by MR in the 'Today' topic)
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Midland Red
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Wed 19th Aug 2015 11:51am
Daventry Buildings (dated 1939) - Cook's butchers has closed down, due to ill-health
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