COVENTRY JOURNEY

[@ellisjames8517]

Love this. I was born in Coventry 1985 lived in eastern green, canley and tile hill. Live in Lincolnshire now. I think it’s mid 90s cause I’m a car guy and seen some cars made at least L/M reg. It’s crazy seeing how much it’s changed over the years. IN OUR COVENTRY HOMES

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

I was born in Coventry and lived there till 1979. I attended Tile Hill College and Coventry Technical College and worked at the GEC in Spon Street plus other places. Used to go to the fairs on Hearsall Common. I remember lots of those roads. When I left the Coventry buses were maroon and cream, not blue and cream. I live in Arizona, USA now.

[@julianfogarty2243]

My Mum worked at Spon Street from 77/78 until 88.

[@christinafords1542]

Thank you so much for putting this video up. I was born in 20 Torrington Ave Till Hill. We left there in 1958 to live in Australia. A lot has changed but it brought back many memories. When you go to my address on google earth the gate that my father built Frim scrap iron a gate that is still there after 75 years ago

[@coventrycity7308]

Just looked how lovely

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

My Dad wanted to emigrate to Australia but my Mum refused. My life would have been completely different if they had gone. I'd now be talking with an Aussie accent. They both ended up dying in Coventry. I ended up in Arizona, USA.

[@HalStargazer]

i doubt many people when making home movies realise the historical and nostalgic value they will gain over time. gave me tingles seeing things as they were then. it's nothing short of criminal what the council have done to the city centre over the last decades

[@nickfoxy]

Fab video. For those of us who grew up in Coventry this makes surreal watching. Brings back so many memories. Thanks for posting.

[@skyblues8785]

It ain't changed that much. still rough and full of grim council flats

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

@@skyblues8785 The whole place is pretty dreary, the weather too.

[@stephenpain9236]

Thank you for posting this; it brings back so many memories. My parents moved from Manchester to Ash Tree Ave in 1959 when I was three and I lived there until my late teens. I had friends in Jardine Crescent, Allesley Park, Tile Hill Lane, Earlsdon etc. so walked most of these streets during the '70's. Late night strolls back from the Lanch, The Jag, The Dive to name but a few. Stella at 25p/pint and Moroccan for three quid a quarter. Halcyon days! (Been in South Africa since 1991).

[@kippamip]

I was a teenager when this was filmed. I live in Belfast now, but i come home when i can. I love the sky blue city, even though these days its over run with non covetarians. How i wish we could take it back to how it use to be.

[@selfiephotobooth]

Did anyone else try and see how much cheaper the petrol was at the BP petrol station in Spon End?! Pure nostalgia. Thank you for sharing

[@brumman100]

Brilliant clip , shocking how empty the roads were back then

[@TransportGeekery]

Thank you for sharing this. An amazing slice in time. Showing how much has changed, and I have to say for the better more or less.

[@Francis292]

Fascinating watch 👍

[@paulbroderick8438]

Used to be a manufacturing/engineering hub back when. Now? Morphed into a college town! Greetings from a Brit residing in the USA.

[@doctorwhoproductions834]

I live here and it’s so weird to see how it has and hasn’t changed

[@greysalvador2120]

Pro trick: you can watch series on Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching all kinds of movies these days.

[@vincenzokellen9343]

@Grey Salvador Definitely, I've been using flixzone for since december myself :D

[@104ist]

So interesting to see, especially the co-op building that was there before ikea, the leftover factories in tile hill which are now gone, but also how little the ring road and sone other parts have changed. Thanks for taking the time to upload this!

[@user-lx3iv2fn7s]

Cov lad living other side of the world these days... reasonable chance I was in the butts tech college when you drove past. Never forget where home is

[@MrNeal2206]

I grew up in Coventry. This remarkable video, a slice of a different time, brings back many fond memories of being driven from place to place by my parents, occasionally in the front passenger seat! Seeing many of the old buildings takes me right back there. My parents ran a pub on Spon Street and the changes from then to now in the surrounding area are fascinating

[@ravsingh5347]

Thanks for the uploading... The rds are so calming compared to today 👍🚙🛻

[@johnslevin4682]

Lovely video, brought back some memories. Left in 1982.

[@sg8539]

Brings back memories being born and living in Coventry back then and how much has changed now. Thanks great video.

[@andypatrick1413]

Thank you for posting this, I lived in Cov from 1961 to 1987 and enjoyed this nostalgic trip

[@carlosdavison]

Wow! The old Co-Op. The memories! ❤️ You drove close to my old house and I couldn't help but wonder whether my late grandparents would've been babysitting me at that exact moment. Thanks for sharing!

[@keithfrmcov]

Thank you for putting your video on here. My bride and myself used to enjoy coming to town with my mum. Now my mum is no longer with us. 3 months after my mum's funeral we went into town. We both just froze and wept a little and went straight back home. We have never been in the city centre since. As it was not the same with not having my mum with us. As we used to go regular 3 or 4 times a year, and at christmas time we would have our then young children with us. The last time my mum and us all went in to the city centre shopping was 2013, just before my mum became housebound. Mum left us April 2015. My mum grew up in Tile Hill. Larch Tree Ave, and went to Templar's school.

[@SD1922]

Thank you for your comment. I lost my parents some years ago now, and I have sympathy with your feelings. It's no doubt an age thing, but I cannot recognise the culture of Coventry today. We used to live in Tile Hill North, Langley Croft just off Jobs Lane.

[@keithfrmcov]

@@SD1922 You are more than welcome Peter. So sorry for your loss too. Neither can we Peter. Coventry is no longer the city we remember growing up in. I know us humans change time, but Coventry has not changed for the better. No matter what area we live in, they are so depressing now and is looking like they are bronx hit. Langley Croft and Jobs Lane was not far from Larch Tree Ave. I loved staying with my gran when I was a young boy. I used to like watch my brother playing football with his friends in the Ave every Sunday morning when I stayed with my gran. We have decided to move away from Coventry. Which will be next year.

[@SD1922]

@@keithfrmcov I remember Larch Tree Avenue as a youngster. The houses around Langley Croft were among the first to be built and occupied in the whole Tile Hill North estate. The whole building site was a great playground! Then, (around 1952-3) the nearest shops were at the junction of Larch Tree & Birch Tree Avenues. We were lucky enough to move down to the south west years ago. We visit family in Coventry several times a year, but have to confess it's always very nice to get back to Dorset!

[@keithfrmcov]

@@SD1922 My bride and myself love Dorest. Did you attend Woodland's school?

[@SD1922]

@@keithfrmcov No, just before leaving Limbrick Wood juniors we move to Upper Eastern Green Lane, which was about 200 yards outside of the Coventry City boundary in those days. So, whilst I could see Woodlands across the fields (no fields there now!)from our front bedroom window I was forced (very reluctantly I might add!) to walk about a mile every morning up to the Standard Pub, where a school bus then took us to Heart of England High School in Balsall Common, about 10 miles away!

[@robwozencroft8684]

I grew up in Eastern green left Coventry 40 years ago still miss the

[@sherwin1988]

Peter, you star!

[@SD1922]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@hugso47]

Thanks for posting. I lived in Coventry just off Canley Road. Used to trainspot at Canley Halt late 1950s. It must be a pain living where we did since they closed the level crossing. I remember the Precinct when it was new, and having a coffee in the cafe on a stalk. Anyone remember Fishy Moore's fish and chip shop? I remember seeing the Who playing in the Matrix dance hall on the Fletchamstead Highway around 1965.

[@SD1922]

Glad you enjoyed it. I used to train spot just up the line at Tile Hill Station at about the same time. I can just remember the precinct being built. Ahh...Fishy Moores !!!

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

I remember Fishy Moores, Barnby's Toy shop, The Locarno dance-hall, Davies' Sports shop, Woolworths, C&A, the Co-op.

[@BlackRose-vi2yg]

Coventry was definitely better back then. Way overpopulated now and the city centre is a dive.

[@RichardCJohnson]

Just discovered this and what fantastic footage. As others have said, it’s interesting to see how much some parts have changed and how much some haven’t. Seeing the Matrix Churchill building really took me back, as did the part of hersall common where you used to be able to turn right / when canley road was 2 way. I now work in a building on the site of the old Triumph Standard club used to be.

[@davidhooper7164]

Thanks for this very interesting - great video

[@SpacehotelMusic]

This is a like a time machine… I was probably in comet Alvis retail park the day this was filmed if it is 95 as some suggest. If we’d all known how much things would change in general we’d have all videod a lot more! I’ve not lived in Coventry for 20 years… Thanks

[@Mrrwb]

A nice memory. As you drove off the ring road into town I thought of the GEC on the left and then where Iceland is I remembered Bejam. I feel old.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

I used to work at that GEC.

[@johnwalsh7806]

I worked at Bejam in the early 70s

[@sarahrobinson410]

Wow I was from Coventry and along broad Lane I once lived with A Coventry Football player Ronnie Farmer He Lodged at same place. I was watching out for Taxi driver cars as back in the day it was what I drove You also came past Hearsall Common and I lived in a bedsit just In Coniston road and down Hearsall Lane the car rental place I worked part time.. I really regret leaving my home town but I struggled paying my cheap mortgage due to poor health. House prices went up between 2002 -2008 + I was very silly giving my sister full asking price on a house of £63.500 any normal person would have offered just £60.000 at least my mortgage may have been that more affordable. But I also regret not renewing my taxi private hire badge as I could easily pay my monthlies regular I am sure.. Great video

[@HalStargazer]

ron farmer. i remember that name from my childhood when i first started following the sky blues. no4 i think he was if i remember right. so long ago now. those were the days

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Ron Farmer died fairly recently. The best penalty-taker Coventry ever had. I once rented a car from that place on Hearsall Lane.

[@coventrycity7308]

Absolute gold 🥇

[@SD1922]

Thank you!

[@sundelight8230]

Wonderful footage. Coventry was great back then compared to now.

[@newuk26]

Really interesting video, thanks for posting

[@sereneintegral]

Lived in stoke green 68-80. I recall culture shock moving from wales.

[@ianfletcher2187]

My Father worked at 'Geens Pharmaceutical' 45 Templar Avenue And then he brought, Studio 45 Audio Visual Centre off them ..

[@marcusreece3020]

Hello thankyou for posting this,you took me past my childhood home on charter avenue.❤

[@SD1922]

Glad you enjoyed it. My Gran lived on Freeburn Causeway, just down the road!

[@marcusreece3020]

@@SD1922 good old Canley it was such a great place to be back in the days!

[@marcusreece3020]

1964 I was born in charter avenue

[@ianfletcher2187]

I lived at 34 Upper Eastern Green Lane back in the 70s

[@stevehorton7684]

thanks for posting, but its not 1990, definitely after 1992/3

[@agx502]

Seems to be filmed in the mid to late 1990s. Also must be filmed early on Sunday mornings because no cars on the road and the shops are all shut.

[@abc33944]

wow look at all those brit built cars!!

[@jamesc6075]

great i really enjoyed that trip although its more likely mid 90's judging by the cars you passed

[@SD1922]

Thank you. You may well be correct regarding the period, sadly my memory isn't what it used to be!

[@martinnorth2680]

@@SD1922 petrol prices suggest 1995

[@SD1922]

@@martinnorth2680 I'm happy to take your word for it. My memory isn't that good1

[@martinnorth2680]

Wonderful

[@GromHatt3r]

We speak with an accent exceedingly rare.....

[@julianfogarty2243]

This is at least 1994. The Land Registry office on Torrington Avenue at 16:42 opened then. I know, I worked there.

[@jasonrossborough8634]

Great video

[@DarrenVelSatis]

6:08 the gap in the houses where a bus had hit them, and later a gas explosion, then they were knocked down

[@dave8484able]

Looks like this was mostly filmed in 1995

[@ellienaseby2181]

Hello Peter- just reaching out because my team would like to talk to you surrounding this video. Do you have an email I can contact you on to provide some more information? Thanks so much!

[@deloscontabil2261]

Here, in Brazil, I wanted to watch this video for the story of the city (completely destroyed by the nazis in the 40s). Do the anciently-destroyed European cities have more opened spaces, and great avenues?

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Not really. The city was completely rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s.

[@radford4345]

This definitely from about 1995-97 rather than 1990

[@dave8484able]

You missed my house lol ok Job’s Lane!

[@SD1922]

I used to live behind you in Langley Croft many years ago!

[@Elliotti22]

6:48 - 50p for fuel!

[@carloakley5367]

Good video but sort the music out. Depressing

[@randyj4741]

You clocked Matrix churchill, that was the company that Saddam Hussien tried to buy some mega guns from and the rest is history as they say....

[@rocky5755]

Nice video but could be better without the dreary music.

[@alecjefferson6993]

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