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Just received 14/12/12

"Just a note, in case any of your people visit, that Royal Mail is closing Coton House at the end of January and will remain empty until someone buys it. There will be security on the site but no access to buildings or grounds. "

 

 

Coton as Photographed recently

Sad to see the old place like this.29/08/11

A recent Contact has given me a lead to his photographs of Coton House  take a look  HERE

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COTON HOUSE FIRE  ! CLICK BUTTON latest 19/03/11

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The site now Includes recent Cotonians e-mails - click here

Over 31,500 hits not bad for a niche interest site !!!!!!!

Recent Letter / email from Mick McCoy - click below

The following announcement was issued by Converteam at Mill Road Rugby works :

"The British Thomson Houston office block, Building 86, will be demolished from Tuesday 15 April.2009
These prestigious offices were first opened in 1938, survived bomb damage and numerous changes of company name, and are now destined for the crusher.
Converteam's Central Facilities have, for many months, been recycling items of interest from Building 86 and the latest successful mission was to remove the British Thomson Houston stonework from over the entrance for eventual re-use with the relocated war memorial, preserving the heritage." The end of an era !! Kind regards, 
Jim McKay

Thanks to John Hyde for taking and sending in the Photograph.

The cost of running the website has been bourn by me and to some extent funded from the sale of CD/DVD
The 2011 DVD has been updated and includes many new items sent to me by old Cotonians.
 Please help me keep the site going - cost of DVD £3.00

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Alick Cross, Ted Marsey, Gordon Jennings, Brian Hudson,
 Grenville Hatton, John Tippett, Mike Benge,
Dave Ratcliff, Pete Scullion, Irfon Williams, Andy Anderson, Rodger Tilbury

ALL ABOVE LOST! if you don't let me know your mail you miss out on contacts and news.

I have two tales - both about Coton food.

 The first is one I heard of, but have not had authenticated. The fried eggs at breakfast 1958/9 where so hard one could use then as shoe leather. Well it seems that things got to head and in unison - and spontaneously 100 + eggs where pinned (using drawing pins) to the wall of the OLD canteen. After which the eggs improved.

Horse Meat Pie
    During 1962/3 the menu included a meat pie whose main constituent was Corned Beef, not to bad - but somewhere in the cooking process  things seemed to go wrong because this could be smelt from the top of the drive (about 1/2 a mile). leading to it being named "Horsemeat Pie" Again a spontaneous refusal to eat the said thing resulted in it going off the menu.

Coton Radio
"BTW has anyone ever mentioned “Coton Radio” about 1963/4 it went on the air broadcasting, using basic audio amps, through the earth and neutral of the power sockets and anyone who connected a speaker to the neutral and earth was able to receive the music and commentary, usually Rugby songs (sport Rugby not place Rugby). I think it was closed down when the warden picked it up on his TV, or someone a few villages away picked it up. Not exactly certain what the reason was but it only ran for a short while before being closed." ? That was our pirate radio and I think it predated Radio Caroline and Simon Dee in March 1964.(Bob Stewart (1963))

 

    The website hit rate is about 100+ / week How many are established and how many are new I do not know.Judging by the recent "Finds" it is apparent that "coton house" is well registered in the search engines - put "Coton House" in Google - and see what I mean

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Some things never change!

A number of mini  reunions take place see - Page

Why not have a mini reunion of your own - remember next stop the big apprenticeship in the sky!
Famous words "This is not a rehearsal"

The Data DVD is now available - issue 4
cost of DVD £3.00
DVD content = 2000 + photo files and documents!
Again  recent input has been great !
KEEP them coming, what a history and record of those times.

 


 Available  at  £3.00 to cover costs

The archive has come in various forms, by e-mail, by hand and by post, if you have photographs, documents or other memorabilia, but do not have the means to digitize them feel free to send them to me, I will then scan and return - mail me - to make it complete I still need more, especially from the years - pre 1959 and post 65 especially1967/8.
Old Cotonians in the Rugby area who  do not have the facility to scan photos etc. We now have the use of a state of the art photo scanner and a person who will do it for you. Provided it adds to the archive, contact me for the contact details

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Of late I have received requests for help in contacting Old Cotonians
Unless their name (both sought and seeker) appear on the list I can NOT help.
 

 

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