My Dad’s sister and her husband ran the New Inn pub by the bridge on the canal. As a child I used to go there with my Mum and Dad and me and my sister used to play on the lawn there. The pub’s long gone now!
I have been trying to trace my family tree and have found the census for 1881 where my Great Great Grandfather John Griffiths and his wife Mary (Nee Turton) are listed as Publican/farmer for the New Inn. Does anyone have any information about the pub and area? Apparently there were cottages there and a farm nearby where my Mum was born. There was also a boat building business run by the family but i’m struggling to find anything relating to it.
I was living in Walter Scott Road from 3yrs of age….we were always at the pub due to being friends of Arthur Shaw’s family…..I was friends with Jennifer Arthur’s daughter.great childhood , happiest days of my life x
Caleb Carvel was my Great Grandfather. In about 1955 my father lost his job and Caleb, who was by now living in one of the houses on Bedworth Hill, let us live in this house. I think we were there till about 1957. Although only young at the time I have vivid memories of our time there and the narrowboat families that moored up outside the house.
I remember the Carvells living there. My Dad was a friend of Les and Bert Carvell in particular.. I went there once and a cockerel chased me and pecked me on the back of my legs. I would have been about four. My Dad was Jack Dickens.
We used to live in our caravan on that houses garden in 1963 while me parents looked for a place to Live, me mums Uncle who lived their at the time, Helped us out, We came home one night in the Motorbike/sidecar to find the caravan Burning away, I was just 3yrs old, We end up in a flat up the Rd, In Lady Warwick Avenue.
Me and my wife both share something in common with this old house/cottage By the canal, My family were Boatpeople, Hence, My mums Uncle was a Boatman and let us stay at his place in the Caravan, My misses mother was formerly Carvell.
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‘fraid they are not “barges” but Narrowboats, being no wider than 7ft.
Also boats are not “parked” but moored up.
My Dad’s sister and her husband ran the New Inn pub by the bridge on the canal. As a child I used to go there with my Mum and Dad and me and my sister used to play on the lawn there. The pub’s long gone now!
I have been trying to trace my family tree and have found the census for 1881 where my Great Great Grandfather John Griffiths and his wife Mary (Nee Turton) are listed as Publican/farmer for the New Inn. Does anyone have any information about the pub and area? Apparently there were cottages there and a farm nearby where my Mum was born. There was also a boat building business run by the family but i’m struggling to find anything relating to it.
Any help would be appreciated.
My Granddad Caleb Carvell and his family lived in the cottage on on the side of the canal arm
My Granddad Caleb Carvell and his family lived in the house by the canal
I was living in Walter Scott Road from 3yrs of age….we were always at the pub due to being friends of Arthur Shaw’s family…..I was friends with Jennifer Arthur’s daughter.great childhood , happiest days of my life x
Caleb Carvel was my Great Grandfather. In about 1955 my father lost his job and Caleb, who was by now living in one of the houses on Bedworth Hill, let us live in this house. I think we were there till about 1957. Although only young at the time I have vivid memories of our time there and the narrowboat families that moored up outside the house.
I remember the Carvells living there. My Dad was a friend of Les and Bert Carvell in particular.. I went there once and a cockerel chased me and pecked me on the back of my legs. I would have been about four. My Dad was Jack Dickens.
We used to live in our caravan on that houses garden in 1963 while me parents looked for a place to Live, me mums Uncle who lived their at the time, Helped us out, We came home one night in the Motorbike/sidecar to find the caravan Burning away, I was just 3yrs old, We end up in a flat up the Rd, In Lady Warwick Avenue.
Me and my wife both share something in common with this old house/cottage By the canal, My family were Boatpeople, Hence, My mums Uncle was a Boatman and let us stay at his place in the Caravan, My misses mother was formerly Carvell.
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