Recent content by Pedro42

Is this them, based in Mount Street? https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Heeley_and_Sons

Here's another but I don't know why it keeps coming up as 'pardon our interruption'...

There are a number of corkscrews advertised on ebay with James Heeley's name on but I haven't found any that are silver hallmarked eg...

Here's my try ........

Here's my attempt ............and one with colour added

I don't know if theses links have been added before but here is a good site for radio memories together with quite a few old recordings http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/radio/index.htm Many of the old radio programmes mentioned above were also recorded on early TV. This is a good site to see...

An old pal of mine, and a ex member of this site "Berniew", started as an apprentice electrician with Dowding and Mills around 1964 and worked there for most of his working life. Sadly Bernie is no longer with us.

Some more photos of the Arthur Street/Coventry Road bus/tram depot and its environs

If you are lucky enough to find where your ancestors are buried, gravestones sometimes yield information that you were not aware of. Adjacent gravestones can also be of help I would recommend that you do not trust other peoples' trees on Ancestry, or Find My Past. even though they may contain...

More photos of Duddeston Mill Road

Here's another photo of the same Adderley street location..and a coloured version Pete

Two more photos of Charles Road ......

Blake Lane photos

The ultimate (lunacy??) in jet cars....

Noel Penny was instrumental in the design of the gas turbine engine used in Jet 1. He lived in Coventry and died in 2013, see attached article https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-turbine-pioneer-dies-aged-4288252