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What was the name of the pub between the Cov building society and the Halifax one, set back in the alley way, was always like a tardis, bigger than you ever thought it could be.
The top three places you miss most from Coventry city centre (3 Viewers)
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clint van damme
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Rose and Crown/Courtyard?
eastwoodsdustman
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Bug and black bat, Times Square and the Parrot.
bringbackrattles
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Riddys Army and Navy store not far from Highfield Road. If a shop had legend status Riddys was it !
lifeskyblue
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Couldn’t remember name but remember the shop. Find anything in there. I think my first buy was an old knapsack. Later a trench coat.
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What was the mock Tudor pub next door to it, Ansells.
White Lion?
clint van damme
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Forgot about that. I know one of the sons, he's a little bit younger than me. The old man drowned sadly, I think in Brazil if I remember rightly.
SkyBlueScottie
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Burger place, the guy who had a few Wimpy franchises in Cov ended up opening his own chain.
SkyBlueScottie
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Varsity was a decent night, I was in there on the opening night. Bar Coast on a Friday night with DJ Darren De Luca, Traffic on a Saturday night upstairs in Careys.
Yeah he did, the Family went to Heart of England in Balsall Common like myself .
Were from Meriden IIRC .
clint van damme
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they lived in Earlsdon at one point, I went to school with the lad I'm on about, think he was the year below me.
He's related to a family I know well and the last time I saw him was when one of them got married. Frightening to think how long ago this all is, time certainly waits for no man!
bringbackrattles
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Loved that shop. As I was a skinhead I got grandad vests in there, and boots, and other bits and bobs. I liked haversacks too and they sold them,in fact it was an Aladdin's Cave and if they never had something they'd try and get it for you.
Yeah hopsacks, Parkas bib and brace.
ajsccfc
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Was that on Far Gosford Street? I remember an army shop next to the old Hand and Heart, now a Dominos Pizza bizarrely.
Just at the top across from Barclays on Sky Blue way been a big development on that corner recently as it goes, nice bit of architecture too IMO.
Covkid1968#
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Toilets in the precinct.....very handy
Fishy Moores
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Time Square and Busters Night Club.....Only cave night club I know - excluding Calon Porter in Menorca.
Fishy Moores
Poster Place
Time Square and Busters Night Club.....Only cave night club I know - excluding Calon Porter in Menorca.
clint van damme
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I once went to one in Germany which was in an actual cave! In a place called Marburgh, (I think!)
Terry Gibson's perm
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Do you think we will be saying this about Cosmo in ten years time now that it’s closed?
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Used to love a chinky at the pogoda above park lane after a skinful
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Woolworths- football figures and pic n mix.
Lloyd’s (Earl of Mercia) what a way to start a night out at 16.
Game- when I was early teens into my PlayStation got some cracking sports games second hand which would fill a hole during school holidays!
Lloyd’s (Earl of Mercia) what a way to start a night out at 16.
Game- when I was early teens into my PlayStation got some cracking sports games second hand which would fill a hole during school holidays!
Otis
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We can but hope.
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What that we are still about then
B-Ban-Boogie
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- The old dump\demolished building where WIcks's now stands at the end of the Radford Road towards town. We used to do somersaults off a smashed up 3 storey building onto the 20 or so mattresses we pushed together. God i loved the old days!
- The Parrot
- Fatty Arbuckles on the Stoney Stanton Rd....
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Otis a while back you were talking about a cafe near the cathedral is it in the new one.
Went to Cosmo twice first time it was good the second time was like the food had been saved from the previous visit six months before, it had the driest turkey I have ever seen
Otis
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The Rising cafe? It's tagged on to the new cathedral. You access it from the road up from Pool Meadow to the university and the Herbert.
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Is it any good as we couldn’t think of anywhere to eat the other week and ended up in the slug n lettuce which was excellent and then saw that place after
Otis
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It's decent. The food is pretty good. Not outstanding, but decent, not bad prices and the decor is really nice too.
You tried Basement Brown's yet in the high street?
Nick
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Wanst lloyds the corner, yates over the road and varsity just down?
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Yep, think I went in Yates once or twice but then it shut and was turned into a spar shop, Varsity still there (was in there last week! : I ) now called ‘The castle grounds’, Lloyds now a Wetherspoons
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Not yet what is it near to in the town
Just looked I can’t eat pizza so doesn’t look good for me.
Have you been to the ice cream place in the old fire station
Brighton Sky Blue
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Yes, freshly made pizzas and massive salads. Highly recommend it.
Otis
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Yeah. But overpriced compared to Creams.
Basement Brown's do also do salads and toasties. Not just pizza, though that is their main selling point.
Going to try Jam Jar soon. Heard good things about it. That's the one on Corporation Street. Desserts, ice cream, waffles, pancakes, cakes etc.