If not the building at the back is in Smithford St? You need to be signed in to respond to this topic. In 1910 Hertford Street was a normal shopping street carrying traffic, although not the sort of traffic we expect nowadays - horses and carts would have outnumbered the newly invented motor vehicles considerably! I bought my wife’s engagement ring and later her wedding ring from Walkers in the passageway back in 1968. The statue used as Peeping Tom has been around in Coventry for over three and a half centuries but started out life in … Looking more carefully, I can see that the window display looks more like trays of jewellery, not bottles of vino. This is your first visit to my website today, thank you. Thanks, MR and NY. In the year 1860, the effigy was the White Lion in Smithford St, the owner went bankrupt, sold the Lion effigy to the inn (Mr Hunt) in Hertford St, who painted it red. A careful look will reveal the spire of Holy Trinity and a few of the buildings on the right did survive the wartime bombing, but their modern facades disguise their original appearance. Again we see an old photograph of a Coventry street which is not at all recognisable to present day visitors to the town. Invites each passing stranger that can pay It's not easily visible here in this wonderfully busy street scene of 1927, but Peeping Tom used to watch out from the top corner window in the King's Head Hotel on the right. This is your first visit to my website today, thank you! Thinking a bit more, Walkers was alongside the passageway, through which I must have walked literally thousands of times over the years. In 2005 little remains to compare with the view a century earlier. In '61 some funsters repainted it white. Hertford Street. Attempted raid on the Red Lion to paint it white again as of last year’s raid - the proprietor caught them redhanded, took them to court, but the court said it would have been better if he had said nothing, there had been no offence. This is your first visit to my website today, thank you. Proprietor (Mr Hunt) said he thought they should go and practice on someone else, they ought not to come twice on one person. And another find from Dean Nelson - another first I think?! The original Peeping Tom statue can currently be seen in the nearby Cathedral Lanes shopping centre. At the back of my mind, I thought Waters was the other side of the bank. 1862 Again we see an old photograph of a Coventry street which is not at all recognisable to present day visitors to the town. Coventry City Centre The former bank has been empty ever since the tattoo parlour closed its doors last year Hertford Street works to carry on into the new year - despite newly laid tarmac It's not easily visible here in this wonderfully busy street scene of 1927, but Peeping Tom used to watch out from the top corner window in the King's Head Hotel on the right. Click the image to fade back in time to a scene from around the 1920s. Somewhat out of focus of course. Could that be the Vicar Lane chapel if the photo taken from Smithford St, if Red Lion was in Vicar Lane or just an alleyway? Since 1969 there's been little chance of being run over by any sort of vehicle, even less a horse drawn cart, because Hertford Street was finally pedestrianised. The statue used as Peeping Tom has been around in Coventry for over three and a half centuries but started out life in the guise of a much nobler figure... St. George! You’re quite right Slim. Helen, let me know if you want me to send it on to your email so you can enlarge this and the Earl St one, Prof, it took me a while to work out the Red Lion because the image is between maps. Broadgate from Hertford Street Camera No. Where the Red Lion staring o'er the way Aug 20th Coventry Herald. Neil, yes please. In 1820 there were about 21,000 people in Coventry. The accurate clock movement inside was salvaged from the old Market Tower which dominated the city centre skyline until its demolition after the Second World War. On the corner of Hertford Street and Smithford Street was Ladbury, linen maker, then an engraving showed a tradesman looking out at a couple kissing in the passage under Peeping Tom, adjoining the Kings Head, kept by Thomas Sharpe, Down by the Red Lion in 1824 there … Helen, Saved by … 63 In recent years the Cathedral Lanes shopping centre has been one of Coventry's most controversial buildings, central to the well-being (or otherwise) of Broadgate, which has long been the focal point of the city. It stood on the wall over the archway between the inn and the stables, the site of the old Queens Hotel. The owner, fearing the same thing the following year, set watch - the culprits were caught with the ladder propped inside the archway (above). Coventry Blitz Michael Carter Photographs And Memories West Midlands English Roses British History Old Photos Nostalgia Street View. In 1910 Hertford Street was a normal shopping street carrying traffic, although not the sort of traffic we expect nowadays - horses and carts would have outnumbered the newly invented motor vehicles considerably! Historic Coventry discussion Forum. Talk about Coventry's history, heritage, memories, football favourites or any Coventry related topic you like. In 1812 Hertford Street was formed under an Act of Parliament. The Historic Coventry Forum: Hertford Street Slim, I put this one in the High St thread a while ago. Anyway, my anecdote about Waters Wine Bar and my aunt's antics stills stands! A different Peeping Tom is now not far away from the window of that Hotel (which was totally destroyed in the blitz); - An animated one watches over Lady Godiva as she parades around the "Godiva Clock", on the hour - every hour, in the 1950s rebuilt Broadgate.

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