Three four-storey blocks of flats, Tile Hill North, western Coventry
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Three four-storey blocks of flats, Tile Hill North, western Coventry by Robin Stott as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Three four-storey blocks of flats, Tile Hill North, western Coventry
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 11 Apr 2017
The view is across Jardine Crescent. The flats appear to lack any vehicular access. Satellite photos show an on-road parking lane that clearly is not there now. Out of shot left is a construction site where the Tile Hill Social Club was: see Image, photographed in 2010. Out of shot right is the postwar St Oswald's Church: Image and related images. Before World War II this area was fields, perhaps belonging to Tilehill Farm on Hawthorn Lane, bounded to the east by a wood called North Waste. In the early 1950s maps show a network of roads lined with small square dwellings on small plots – presumed to be prefabs. The crescent was then Humphrey Wanley Crescent. The flats pictured first appear on a map of 1960; there was a court of lock-up garages off James Green Road but this is now houses. The crescent has become Jardine Crescent.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
52.406102
Longitude
-1.580138