And he says: "I have been kindly contacted by a lady with the information that according to John Spencer in his book "Those Dance Band Days," Neale's Ballroom was destroyed towards the end of 1944.

*Send your pictures of old Earlsdon to communities@coventrytelegraph.net or write to the Earlsdon Blog, Coventry Telegraph, Corporation Street, Coventry CV1 1FP.

He says: "The picture shows members, myself included, of the 43rd Earlsdon Methodist Air Scout Troop during a trip to Edinburgh in August 1945.

Scout trippers - Back Row: Gutteridge, ?, Goode, Ganley, ?, Hunter, Williams, Kelsey, Osbourne. Middle row: Weston, Smith, ?, Sharp, Sloan, Deeley, Payne, Bates, Dunn. Front Row: ?, Hurton, Ambrose, Carr, Hill, Salmon, Tyler, Cook, ?, Gailey, Welton, ?.

He says: "The gate in the picture stood in Earlsdon Lane, now Earlsdon Avenue South, on the boundary between Earlsdon and the Gregory Estate.

He says: "The photo is of the Regent Rollerdrome which used to stand in
Albany Road, Earlsdon.

"I believe that by the Second World War it had become Neale's Ballroom and I happen to have a copy of a programme, unfortunately without a year, of Star Band Attractions.

With reference to the old postcard of Earlsdon Lane in the December issue of the Earlsdon Blog, the building shown was said to be the Old Clarence Pub when a private residence. I don't think that is correct.

There appears to be another house in the picture which would have to have been on Hearsall Common. In John Ashby's book, The Character of Coventry, there is a picture of the Clarence in 1917 showing its construction to be quite different.

Colin, of Sovereign Road, Earlsdon, Coventry, writes: "This photo is from the Coventry Standard and shows the 1968 celebrations for Hogmanay at the old Rangers Supporters' Club in Clarendon Street, Earlsdon.

"I'm the young skinny lad (not long down from Scotland) extreme left, back row (circled)."

Until recently Colin ran his own book and collector's shop in Albany Road and is a well-known musician in the city.

He says: This is a 1957 school photograph of Broadway Secondary Boys School in Earlsdon, Coventry. The school is believed to have closed some years ago and may now be used as a community centre.

Class of '57: Back row (L to R): Evans, Buss, Richards (Borlaise), Blake, Russel, Jeffs, Stafford, Stapleton, Tray (schools' national boxing champion). Middle row (L to R): Norris, Preece, Robinson, Smedly, Simmons, Dax, McQueen, Chambers, A.N.Other, Spence, Horne, Price. Sitting: (L to R): Handly, Taylor, Barnes, Grifiths, Mr Blethyn, Welch, Thompson, Ambler. On floor: Jaguar and Lovell.

Earlsdon Methodist Church Sunday School, Coventry, which held its first class 85 years ago in a disused factory in Cromwell Street - now Berkeley Road - will soon have a new building.

It is being erected adjoining the church in Earlsdon Avenue South and tomorrow the foundation stone is to be laid by the Rev. W Russell Shearer, chairman of the district.

The Sunday School has progressed through the years from the small class of one class to an over-crowded school of nearly 300, and then through years of reorganisation and war.

An organ which cost more to move from Birmingham than the purchase price, has been installed in the Earlsdon Methodist Church, Coventry. The installation of the organ at Earlsdon has been incorporated with a completely new design of the sanctuary in the church.

The minister, the Revd Robert Clements, said the church would be 100 years old next year. When it was founded, services were held in a disused factory.

The congregation later moved to premises in Berkeley Road, which are now the Criterion Theatre.

Huw Blake, who used to live in Bedford Street, Earlsdon is the boy fourth from the left on the back row on the team picture from Broadway Secondary School, taken at the start of the 1956-7 season.

Broadway Secondary School, Earlsdon, rugby first XV, taken at the start of the 1956-7 season.

The five men and one woman set off on the trip from Coventry on July 1, heading for their first stop - Belgium.

Lorna Rose, aged 22 of Allesley, the only female on the trip, got involved after her cousin Colin Rose, aged 21, thought of the adventure.

A GRANDFATHER-of-six plans to celebrate his 75th birthday with the launch of his first book about the history of Massey Ferguson.

It took Ken Tyrrell, 75, of Broad Lane, Eastern Green, Coventry, just over a year to write his book, simply called Working at Masseys, about the turbulent 70s and 80s at the engineering firm.

For one Coventry soldier, the end of the Great War came just hours too late.

Lieutenant John Edwin Pugh (right), of HMS Princess Royal, Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), was shot down in his Sopwith Camel on November 10, 1918, near Grand-Reng, dying of his wounds two days later, aged 19.

The name may be familiar, though many readers will acquaint the name Colin Armstrong not with music, but more likely with books of the second-hand variety.

The truth is this is the very same person who until recently ran Armstrong's Books and Collectables in Albany Road, Earlsdon.

Until books took over his life, it was music that dominated it, and the good news is that Colin has left his book-selling behind, and it looks like new songs and even an album are on the cards.