A S Purewall Wines, Stoney Stanton Road, Foleshill
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A S Purewall Wines, Stoney Stanton Road, Foleshill
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 26 Aug 2021
This decrepit 19th century building stands at the junction of Stoney Stanton Road and Broad Street, Coventry. The decorative keystone lintels suggest that it might date from mid-century; the Freehold Land Society houses in similar style on Stoney Stanton Road date from the 1850s (see Fry, D & Smith A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, pp91-92). The ghostly remains of an advertisement painted on the stucco can still be made out: Bennett's Central Corn Stores, with Corn Merchant to the left and something very hard to make out to the right. David Ernest Bennett, corn dealer, is listed in Kelly's Directory between 1921 and 1940, according to the flickr user Hazel Nicholson, who posts a photo of this building here https://www.flickr.com/photos/10515323@N08/32895631286 . She identifies the building as 619 Stoney Stanton Road. The wine shop does not look as if it has done any business recently.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.426525
Longitude
-1.492441