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Midland Red

91 of 176  Thu 23rd Feb 2017 5:51pm  

On 23rd Feb 2017 4:46pm, Prof said: What a fantastic image NeilsYard, it makes one feel you could walk down Market St to see it. Looks as if this was the side entrance to Boots which fronted onto Broadgate as seen in many photos, so this must be Market Street.
This postcard clearly shows Boots on Broadgate Thumbs up
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
92 of 176  Sun 26th Feb 2017 11:27am  

Yes, these old photo's really do bring back old memories. But to me I believe the first world war was the start of the picture postcard, at the start of the twentieth century the only way people could communicate to others afar was by writing, and with photo's making giant strides someone put them together. With mass production thousands of cards were sent to the troops, I believe the Royal Mail and the Army had a special service. The Three Spires was the most popular postcard for Midlanders, but in the twenties and thirties the picture postcard was cheap and easy to send small items of news, with three deliveries a day was fast and efficient. Today we are most grateful for those cards to look back on history. The second war, it was widely used for home use, farther afield the six-penny airmail came in to use.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
93 of 176  Mon 11th Sep 2017 8:45pm  

Thanks to Derrick Greer on the True Cov FB page - possibly the best / clearest post war image of the complete tower I have seen.
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Midland Red

94 of 176  Mon 11th Sep 2017 10:02pm  

Thanks, Neil Thumbs up
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
95 of 176  Tue 26th Sep 2017 4:06pm  

NeilsYard. I believe in the foreground where the photographer stood was the old fish market, and over to the right was the domed market hall, there was Weaver to Wearer, I believe, between the market and Burtons. The market tower was there early '45 when I went away, but had gone when I returned in '48. Someone said the council thought it stuck out like a sore thumb and was a pigeon haven, so the council pulled it down and made neat little piles of rubble that matched the rest of the rubble, and the pigeons moved on. I think a delayed bomb went off in Broadgate about 11am Friday morning. I believe the words you see on the front of Holy Trinity - "It all depends on me and I depend on God".
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Helen F
Warrington
96 of 176  Wed 27th Sep 2017 8:33am  

That is a very good picture Neil. I never noticed how decorated it was. I wonder if it was painted on or done with different bricks.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
97 of 176  Wed 27th Sep 2017 10:45am  

Helen F. Yes it is a good photo, very close up and only a few weeks after the raid I would think, no one puts dates on photos in books, also I believe it was brickwork decoration, they loved that kind of work before the war. I remember the small tile decorations of entrances to houses. but that market tower survived while all round was flattened. I think it deserved to have been incorporated in the new city. The Army came in for a while and cleaned up the main streets for transport to operate, but the council took a long time to really move the rubble, in fact some people said, it's a city still suffering from 'piles' even in the late fifties. The markets formed their own ARP or HG, unit same as the factories.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
98 of 176  Tue 14th Nov 2017 3:40am  

And another showing the cleared area - it's amazing it survived at all even if it was not for much longer. This shot gives a more precise location and shows what (little) remained on West Orchard.
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Midland Red

99 of 176  Tue 14th Nov 2017 7:56am  

Great shot, Neil - and it shows the keep left signs for Kaga Wink
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
100 of 176  Tue 14th Nov 2017 11:50am  

Midland Red. That Market Tower covers many topics for me, and as it's all memory for me, makes it personal, stories that makes it sound like boasting that worries me somewhat.
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Midland Red

101 of 176  Tue 14th Nov 2017 12:04pm  

Not at all, Kaga - don't ever think that Oh my We all really enjoy every tidbit you post from those years gone by Thumbs up
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NeilsYard
Coventry
102 of 176  Tue 14th Nov 2017 11:32pm  

Another new one to me showing how badly hit the whole area was Sad
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
103 of 176  Thu 16th Nov 2017 2:06pm  

Neils Yard. If I remember correctly Mattersons H.W. were quite close to the tower and the old barracks. Around WW1 time I believe they did all the cavalry equipment and shoeing, right there in the centre of the city, supplied all the farmers' needs in the city's suburbs - a big chunk of the city's history, early part of the twentieth century.
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Midland Red

104 of 176  Thu 16th Nov 2017 7:37pm  

You probably already know that Matterson's have their own thread Thumbs up
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
105 of 176  Fri 17th Nov 2017 9:43am  

Midland Red, yeh, and I kept putting in MHW and kept getting zero. Thumbs up
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