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dutchman
Spon End
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46 of 241  Sun 19th Oct 2014 9:29pm  

This is the Rex in 1937 before the matching shops and offices were built on either side of it: In this 1950 view of Corporation Street looking towards Hales Street you can see the gap in the shops and offices where the Rex used to be: The gap became the Rex Market between 1953 and 1958.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
47 of 241  Mon 20th Oct 2014 12:45pm  

Dutchman, can't argue with that, any chance you could find out what picture was about to be shown? I can't do it from down here on the cliff top, and I'm not good with this machine, I was about fourteen when it got bombed so I am interested in this forum. thank you.
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dutchman
Spon End
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48 of 241  Mon 20th Oct 2014 3:22pm  

Very unlikely I'm afraid Kaga Sad Someone would need to find a press cutting with an advert for that week or a photo of the cinema taken the same week to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
49 of 241  Mon 20th Oct 2014 4:32pm  

Hi Both This is from the Leamington Spa Courier Friday 23rd August 1940
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
50 of 241  Mon 20th Oct 2014 5:16pm  

Thanks for the pictures about the Rex dutchman. Thanks to you to annewiggy for the paper cutting, someone had promised to take me to see the film and poof it was gone, it was ten years or so before I eventually saw the film.
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Dreamtime
51 of 241  Mon 20th Oct 2014 6:20pm  
Off-topic / chat  

dutchman
Spon End
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52 of 241  Tue 21st Oct 2014 1:17am  

Good find Anne Thumbs up
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
53 of 241  Tue 21st Oct 2014 10:33am  

I would like to apologize if I have misused this forum, but how else could I have got the answer, but I was dead right about what I saw seventy-four years ago, and to me Dutchman and Anne have just kicked Dementia right out of the ball park. Now with all the cellars and vaults you are finding in the old Cov, then you can start to believe that the story of scores of rats seen swarming down Trinity Street one-hour after the start of the bombing could possibly be true. Thanks once again Dutchman and Anne.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
54 of 241  Tue 28th Oct 2014 8:11pm  

Great British Railway Journeys on BBC Four, the one in Coventry is on at the moment.
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DBC
Nottinghamshire
55 of 241  Wed 29th Oct 2014 7:39pm  

I have posted this before, but this is a film of the opening of the Rex. The caption reads 1939, but I believe it opened before that - Pepper Lane looking towards High Street?
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pixrobin
Canley
56 of 241  Wed 29th Oct 2014 8:29pm  

Generally places are open before the 'official' opening. The official opening generally requires a celebrity to perform the ceremonials
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NeilsYard
Coventry
57 of 241  Mon 26th Oct 2015 9:53am  

The links earlier in this thread have stopped working now but I think this is the one mentioned earlier: Pepper Lane looking towards High Street
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Midland Red

58 of 241  Mon 26th Oct 2015 10:34am  

Thanks for that Neil - your link has replaced the broken one on page 2 of this thread Thumbs up
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NeilsYard
Coventry
59 of 241  Tue 27th Oct 2015 9:51pm  

Apparently this is somewhere around Friars Road / St Patricks Road - a new one to me:
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Midland Red

60 of 241  Wed 4th Nov 2015 8:47pm  

Is this the same house as in the lead photo in this article?
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