COVENTRY MESSAGE BOARD

"The Traders Summer event is this Saturday (10th July) from 10.30-4pm in Earlsdon Street. Come along and join in the fun with Punch & Judy at 11am, Balloon modelling at 12 noon and a magic show at 12.30 along with stalls selling all sorts of homemade goodies, games, face painting, specials at the cafes/restaurants and lots more. Children can join in our sandcastle game at Tinderbox and get a seaside themed tattoo."

And you can check out the two new discount stores - a big one in the former "Pride" shop ( across the road from the coop ) and a small one in the old post office.

Nothing stopping you opening one flapdoodle.

flapdoodle wrote:

PoundShopPeter wrote:Nothing stopping you opening one flapdoodle.

I doubt a shop would pay anywhere near what I earn in my current job!

Do it for the love!

Alexander Wines should be re-opening any day now. 2nd oldest shop in Earlsdon as far as I know.

PoundShopPeter wrote:Alexander Wines should be re-opening any day now. 2nd oldest shop in Earlsdon as far as I know.

Odd isn't it that at one time the only retailers were on the corners of the side streets and the high street was exclusively residential!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=138122&id=114397005263310

Here's a corner shop in the process of being converted into housing - Mickleton Road / Mayfield Road. Think it's last incarnation as a 'shop' was a scuba diving supplies store. Wonder what it's first was?

PoundShopPeter wrote:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=138122&id=114397005263310

Here's a corner shop in the process of being converted into housing - Mickleton Road / Mayfield Road. Think it's last incarnation as a 'shop' was a scuba diving supplies store. Wonder what it's first was?

It was much photographed and was a newsagent's:

Cheers for that. Did you ever use it Dutchy


Earlsdon on Sea photographs:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10258&id=114397005263310&ref=mf

PoundShopPeter wrote:Cheers for that. Did you ever use it Dutchy

That's one part of Earlsdon I've never set foot in. If you think about it, unless someone lives there they would have no reason to. I think the picture belongs to David Fry who is an authority on the history of Coventry and has co-authored three books on the subject:

PoundShopPeter wrote:Earlsdon on Sea photographs:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10258&id=114397005263310&ref=mf

Thanks for the link

dutchman wrote:

PoundShopPeter wrote:Cheers for that. Did you ever use it Dutchy

That's one part of Earlsdon I've never set foot in. If you think about it, unless someone lives there they would have no reason to. I think the picture belongs to David Fry who is an authority on the history of Coventry and has co-authored three books on the subject:

PoundShopPeter wrote:Earlsdon on Sea photographs:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10258&id=114397005263310&ref=mf

Thanks for the link

There's a chap a few doors away whose granddad was one of the postcard photographers - Archibald Mills. He sold his plates to H H Thompson but the grandson still has some unpublished glass plates of St Michael's before it was bombed. Keeps threatening to show me them but never does! David Fry interviewed him a year ago and said he might do a volume 3 of the Coventry We Have Lost. That image might be one that Mills took.

PoundShopPeter wrote:David Fry interviewed him a year ago and said he might do a volume 3 of the Coventry We Have Lost.

The same few subjects tend to get covered over and over again. I'm hoping that if there is a Volume 3, they will include pictures of places which have not been seen much before.