When I was two we moved into our first home which was a prefab. It was made of asbestos and was the corner house of a little estate of prefabs, ...
Here’s a nicely evocative couple of shots from the Reg Bull collection of photographs. These photos are nicely catalogued with dates, but here there’s a rather blatant clue as to ...
According to the Nuneaton Chronicle of November 2nd 1951, you could see Robin Hood of Texas. Now, I thought I knew my myth and legend, but I don’t know this version! ...
In 1961-1962, I went to see the Beatles at the Co-op. You had to queue all the way down Edwards Street. We had to buy the tickets in advance. They ...
I started at Vicarage Street Church School, Nuneaton in 1937, the year of the coronation of King George VI. During the war, the roof of the school was taken off ...
My Dad worked there – he started off with a horse and cart with the milk when he was 17 and he later worked on the Co-op Mutuality Club (a ...
The Kosy Kinema was on Lister Street, and opened on Monday 21st March, 1932. The cinema was the brainchild of Mr. F. Roberts, who ran a furnishing firm at Queen’s ...
Interviewer 1: You said you remember going to one of the cinemas. When was that?
Interviewee: Oh god. I would have been oh, I should imagine I probably would’ve been about ...
Interviewee: I remember seeing other big blockbusters at other cinemas. The Ritz particularly was the last one to close in Nuneaton, wasn’t it?
Interviewer 1: Yeah
Interviewee: I remember going to see Jaws ...
Unfortunately, the war came in 1939 and, regrettably, I had to eventually leave J. C. Smith’s to work in a factory for war work. My mother was already working at ...
I grew up in the Dugdale Arms, Nuneaton. Our family had run “The Dug, or The Duggie”, as it was known, since 1911, but its history extended further back than ...
The Dugdale Arms in Nuneaton had been in my family since 1911. My mum and dad took over as landlords in 1957, having lived next door to The Dug (as ...
The first shaft of Griff No. 4 Colliery was sunk in 1851. This was a downcast air shaft known as Charlie Pit that was serviced by one of the older ...