Red House Park, Stoney Stanton Road, Foleshill
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Red House Park, Stoney Stanton Road, Foleshill
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 26 Aug 2021
Red House Park is a well-used green space in this very built-up area of Coventry. It takes its name from the Red House public house which stood on Stoney Stanton Road, to the right of this picture. Later known as Fatty Arbuckle's, it closed in 1995 and the blocks of flats called Rathbone Court, visible at the right hand side of this photo, was built on the site. The OS Six Inch Map of 1912 shows a football ground where the park now stands. See Fry, D & Smith A: The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, pp93-94. The OS 1:10560 series map of 1949-1970 shows allotments at the rear, adjoining Freeman Street, now also part of the park https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.42442&lon=-1.49287&layers=193&right=OSAPI .
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Image Location
Latitude
52.424826
Longitude
-1.494372