GEC Spon Street (picture mystery solved)

[rebbonk]

How about this one then?

[dutchman]

Was this taken in Coventry or Leamington?

[rebbonk]

I believe Coventry 1973

[dutchman]

In that case I think it's Canterbury Street looking towards the junction with King William Street? If it is then the building on the right would be the Phillips showroom.

[rebbonk]

Allegedly, it's a GEC picket line. The girls were printers on strike, would that make it Spon End?

[dutchman]

Allegedly, it's a GEC picket line. The girls were printers on strike, would that make it Spon End?

It's not Spon End. The road in the distance is on an incline, Spon End is totally flat. The buildings on the left are very old and bomb damaged, the building on the right is post-war. That part of Canterbury Street was very heavily bombed. The northern section doesn't quite line up with the southern section which makes the chip shop on the far corner of King Wiliam Street protrude into the photo.

[rebbonk]

Taken from here Dutchman...

http://www.unionhistory.info/timeline/T ... Search.php

[dutchman]

That's not Spon Street or indeed any of the streets which adjoined the GEC works.

[dutchman]

Well, that's me proved 100% wrong!

This is a picture of Spon Street taken around 1969, the GEC receiving office in the first picture is clearly visible on the left. It has since been demolished:


Picture by courtesy of Rob Orland at Historic Coventry