The Triangle area at the top of Church Lawford village was synonymous for many years with the Carpentry and Wheelwright Business of the Cooke Family. For details of the Cooke Family history in Church Lawford see here.
With the advent of the Motor Car the Triangle Garage became a landmark on the Rugby / Coventry Road for Garage Services and a Petrol Station, and there was also a Haulage Business run in partnership with Bill Simmonds from the mid 1930s through to just after the Second World War when the Government of the day nationalised the haulage industry. Bill Simmons moved on to work for National Road Services.
After the business changed hands in the early 1970s it continued as a successful Garage and Retail operation until the end of the Millennium, outlasting a number of other village services meaning it was perhaps ahead of its time in some of the “convenience store” services offered. Prior to the internet era it also hosted the sale of the Coventry Evening Telegraph “Pink Paper” at around 6pm on a Saturday evening for a number of years – people had to rely on such a publication to find out the football scores, reports and league tables if they had been to watch a match at Highfield Road and missed BBC “Sports Report” with its “Classified Results” services.