My father and the rest of the family were living in coventry in 1940, he never spoke about it much, but he did tell me once that he woke up in the shelter one morning and looked out to see all the houses over the road flattened. He said he lost all his schoolmates ! I believe he would have been 10 years old at the time, I believe he never got over it for the rest of his life.To be honest, it should have been bombed by the Enola Gay, who must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.
Yep, on the Holyhead Road. They used to make tanks in the same area and would often see one going up Holyhead Road on a test drive!Went to visit London taxis international many years ago,little known fact that black cabs are manufactured in Coventry and are exported worldwide,they still use mostly traditional methods rather than the mass scale modern car robot factories.
Probably why they went bust twice.Went to visit London taxis international many years ago,little known fact that black cabs are manufactured in Coventry and are exported worldwide,they still use mostly traditional methods rather than the mass scale modern car robot factories.
Nowt wrong with Donny. What u see. Is what u get.Doncaster is worse.
I think the degree of bombing was due to the location of the armament factories (bona fide or makeshift) close to the town centre and within residential areas. It was a town with personality by all accounts; not classically pretty perhaps, but interesting and distinctive. The bombing took that personality away, never to return.My father and the rest of the family were living in coventry in 1940, he never spoke about it much, but he did tell me once that he woke up in the shelter one morning and looked out to see all the houses over the road flattened. He said he lost all his schoolmates ! I believe he would have been 10 years old at the time, I believe he never got over it for the rest of his life.
Yep, on the Holyhead Road. They used to make tanks in the same area and would often see one going up Holyhead Road on a test drive!
When I left school most of us got a job in the car / motor industry..... Jaguar, Standard, the black cabs, Chrysler (soon to be Talbot) or Massey Ferguson factory right next to the school and now a housing estate i believe.
Wasn't it Coventry at Maine Road when Richard Edghill got booed so much he couldn't come out for the second half?