For those that haven't heard of it they post pictures of Coventry from the past.
Been on a posting spree today and they've posted some absolute gems for anyone who's intersted in that sort of thing including one of my favourite City pub the Alhambra
It did but that wasn't uncommon was it? I can remember other pubs that had thoseYep seem to remember the tables having sewing machine treadles or was that somewhere else?
Yep seem to remember the tables having sewing machine treadles or was that somewhere else?
I’m sure the 3 horseshoes on the stoney Stanton road has them tooYep seem to remember the tables having sewing machine treadles or was that somewhere else?
For those that haven't heard of it they post pictures of Coventry from the past.
Been on a posting spree today and they've posted some absolute gems for anyone who's intersted in that sort of thing including one of my favourite City pub the Alhambra
It’s always bittersweet looking at old photos of Cov.
So much history, but such a shame what we have lost.
That's a common error tbf. See it on other photo sites regularly.can't look at that, it says one picture is the junction on bell green road and aldermans green road when no such junction has ever existed and they are both in different areas
It starts at the Sowe Bridge by Windmill Rd.The junction is Bell Green / Hall Green / Henley Rd isn't it? Aldermans Green Rd doesn't start until after the junction with Windmill I think if not further
For those that haven't heard of it they post pictures of Coventry from the past.
Been on a posting spree today and they've posted some absolute gems for anyone who's intersted in that sort of thing including one of my favourite City pub the Alhambra
It starts at the Sowe Bridge by Windmill Rd.
The Green Man.Yeah opposite that pub they have knocked down that was knocked down that Dersingham Drive used to go round the back off.
Yep. Shit Brew XI and great cheese & onion batches. Mum could see the place from her bedroom window, together with the orchard behind it. Now all she can see is the ticky-tacky boxes of Dersingham etc.The Green Man.
Saw a picture recently of the Black Lion pub on Gosford Street which my 3 x great grandfather was one of the last publicans at and took care of my great grandad after his old man passed away. Got knocked down for the ring road but then they ended up changing the route.
This one? It had become a tailors by the time this wartime photo was taken. The tudor buildings either side of it were knocked down too. The archway on the right is the entrance to Whitefriars Lane.
I saw this on another forum which I think you post on. The pub closed and became the family home, don’t know what happened after my ancestor died but hopefully with the 1921 census coming out this year there’s a chance of working it out.
It closed as a pub in 1904 as did around half of all pubs during that decade. Spennell's Directory for 1912-13 gives the occupant as being 'Anthony Greatrex' and it was still being referred to as 'The Old Black Lion'.
I have a collection of around 400 pics of Cov pubs past and present and around 1,540 pics of Cov from the past. I'm a bit of an amateur historian of Cov really. Absolutely love the history of our great city. I've put loads on here in the past.There was a thread on general chat a while back, not sure of its original topic of conversation but it got round to old Coventry pubs, turns out Houchens Head has a collection of photos of ( I think ) every Coventry pub past and present, ‘really interesting’ you should get him involved on here.
I have a collection of around 400 pics of Cov pubs past and present and around 1,540 pics of Cov from the past. I'm a bit of an amateur historian of Cov really. Absolutely love the history of our great city. I've put loads on here in the past.
None of the Black Lion. There were two Black Lions over the time. One in Gosford St, which closed around 1912 and the other was believed to be in the High St but way back in the 1700's. So I doubt if there's any pics about.Got any Black Lion ones HH?
None of the Black Lion. There were two Black Lions over the time. One in Gosford St, which closed around 1912 and the other was believed to be in the High St but way back in the 1700's. So I doubt if there's any pics about.
Keep em coming Houch, love seeing them.I have a collection of around 400 pics of Cov pubs past and present and around 1,540 pics of Cov from the past. I'm a bit of an amateur historian of Cov really. Absolutely love the history of our great city. I've put loads on here in the past.
Are your pub pics strictly limited to Coventry ?None of the Black Lion. There were two Black Lions over the time. One in Gosford St, which closed around 1912 and the other was believed to be in the High St but way back in the 1700's. So I doubt if there's any pics about.
Yeah, tend to stick to Coventry pubs, although I have a pic of the Boat in Grange Road, also one of the Boat in Shilton Lane. I'll do some digging for the Black Bank. (I remember this one well, because as a bus driver on the old 20 Bedworth route, this was a "Fare Stage".)Are your pub pics strictly limited to Coventry ?
It’s just that many years ago I had an Uncle & Auntie that kept the Black Bank on Coventry Rd, Bedworth and another that kept the Punch Bowl in Nuneaton.
I was born on Blackhorse Rd just north of the M6 that had a pub of the same name at one end and my old man’s local at the other The Boat.
A couple of the Punch Bowl in Nuneaton.....Yeah, tend to stick to Coventry pubs, although I have a pic of the Boat in Grange Road, also one of the Boat in Shilton Lane. I'll do some digging for the Black Bank. (I remember this one well, because as a bus driver on the old 20 Bedworth route, this was a "Fare Stage".)
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That’s great cheers, Grange road literally joins up with Blackhorse Rd, it’s Grange Rd on the Coventry side of the humpback bridge and Blackhorse Road on the Bedworth side, I think the photo above is my dad’s old local it looks just like it and it’s very unlikely there would have been 2 pubs of the same name within a couple of hundred yards of each other.
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