A couple of old pictures of Pool Meadow

[rebbonk]

Les Ronan from the Travel Warwickshire website (http://www.travelwarwickshire.co.uk) has kindly agreed to let me share these pictures with you from his collection. (Les Ronan Collection). Please don't copy/re-paste without asking his permission.

I don't remember the small parade of shops at all, perhaps some of you do? Les would love to hear of any memories that these pictures generate.


Originally posted http://www.travelwarwickshire.co.uk/ind ... opic=683.0


Originally posted http://www.travelwarwickshire.co.uk/ind ... opic=679.0

[dutchman]

Good find Rebbonk!

That part of Priory Street was very seldom photographed. It would have been roughly opposite Godfrey's travel agents which were. I don't remember any shops other than the transport café far-left.

[pollyanna]

Good find Rebbonk.

Sorry - can't help you with any more info.

[dutchman]

As the originals are no longer viewable I thought I'd post a few new ones from the 1960s



Close-up of the old baths. I explored there as a kid and was surprised how much of the interior survived. It could easily have been rebuilt.


In this long shot taken later the site of the old baths has been completely cleared:

[Blitzkid]

Pool Meadow opened in 1937 as a bus terminal, before that it was a boggy wasteland, but used by the Fire brigade for drills.A few years later they were practising with there first Turn table ladder,it had no stabalisers, they swung the ladder to far and the whole engine crashed on it's side, throwing the officer on the ladder to the ground, he was severely injured, after that they built them with stabalizers.

[rebbonk]

Thanks Blitzkid

[dutchman]

If my memory serves me the turntable ladders were made in Germany, possibly the same ones pictured here in 1950?