Foleshill Gas Club, Foleshill Road, Coventry

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Foleshill Gas Club, Foleshill Road, Coventry by A J Paxton as part of the Geograph project.

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Foleshill Gas Club, Foleshill Road, Coventry

Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 31 Jul 2021

In his novel Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino tells of a city made of two halves, one of everyday working life, the other a fairground. After six months, the temporary half-city is taken down and moved to a new location. Workmen dismantle banks, factories and schools, load them onto lorries and leave the half-city of fairground rides behind. So it is with Coventry: factories and industrial installations close, leaving their sports and social clubs behind as memorials: Alvis, Standard Triumph and, on Foleshill Road, the gasworks. The history of the gasworks can be read about here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/8825

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.442155
Longitude
-1.489466