Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry, viewed from the entrance to Webster's Park
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Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry, viewed from the entrance to Webster's Park
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 26 Aug 2021
This row of houses on Stoney Stanton Road is part of the development laid out in the 1850s by the Coventry & Warwickshire Artizans Freehold Land Society, which was established in 1851. Freehold Land Societies aimed to make home ownership available to working men, who as householders would then also have the right to vote. Freehold Street in Hillfields was another Coventry example - see here Image A member of the Coventry & Warwickshire Artizans Freehold Land Society could be allocated one of 262 plots on which to build a house. The member would then pay the society back over a number of years. This project does not appear to have been as successful as some other such societies in Coventry, and some plots were bought up in blocks by developers and built on. The area later suffered heavy bomb damage in the second world war. See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, Berkswell, pp91-92.
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