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An interesting little resource about Nuneaton and Nth Warwks

Postby rebbonk » Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:02 am

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Further resource about Nuneaton

Postby rebbonk » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:44 am

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Re: An interesting little resource about Nuneaton and Nth Warwks

Postby dutchman » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:25 pm

Coton Arches is one of my favourite landmarks, the reason being it is almost a mirror image of Spon End. For more than a century coal trains like this trundled between the two day and night:

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Re: An interesting little resource about Nuneaton and Nth Warwks

Postby dutchman » Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:59 pm

I would swear blind this was Spon End if I didn't already know it was Coton Arches:
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The similarity here is incredible!

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Re: An interesting little resource about Nuneaton and Nth Warwks

Postby dutchman » Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:17 pm

Talk about life in Nuneaton 100 years ago at Bedworth Society

LIFE in Nuneaton 100 years ago will be the theme of a talk at a meeting of the Bedworth Society on Monday.

David Sidwell will be giving a talk about the book he has edited from the diaries of his grandfather George Leonard Clarke, The Old Rebel: A Life in Nuneaton, 1885-1960,

The talk is at 7.30pm at the Old Meeting Church, off Leicester Street.

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