Star’s front row seat for sporting history
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This week’s pictures from the past
Friday 13th February 2009, 11:49AM GMT.
Taxi! This photo, loaned by our regular contributor Paul France, shows the staff taxi for the Coalport-based Nuway Manufacturing Co Ltd, and is dated May 19, 1961.
“The names on the back are given as J. Harris, D. Keefe, D. Bennett and J. Palin (part of). The vehicle is a Bedford Dormobile and was provided by Tomlins Garage which was located on The Wharfage in Ironbridge. The building is now occupied by The Museum of the River.
The lorry in the background belonged to Wilf Woodhall who ran a haulage business from the building on the other side of the road.
“With a magnifying glass you can read the voting poster on the garage door. I would guess it was a council election rather than a national one as none of the names were those of local MPs,” said Paul.
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This couldn’t possibley be City of Coventry School. The original pool was positioned in a way that the building just doesn’t match. I think it may have been a picture from one of the other three identical buildings built at the same time.
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Hi I was at Wyre Farm Camp School from May 1952 to April 1957. It was a all boys school it was only in the summer holidays that girls were their.Their were about 130 boys at any one time we were in four dormitory’s named Earlsdon,Gosford,Radford and Stoke all parts of Coventry.We need a few schools like that today we were a lot fitter and healthier as we spent a lot of time out side doing sports. I went on a weeks youth hosteling with the rest of my class.One class were given X amount money and had to get as far away from school as possible one couple got out into the north sea on a trawler but in those days it was a lot safer.I feel a better person for being at that school in more ways than one yours Dave Desolla
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