Browns Lane, Allesley, Coventry
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Browns Lane, Allesley, Coventry
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 8 Sep 2021
Browns Lane runs for over a mile along the western edge of Coventry: between-the-wars, 1920s-1930s ribbon development, houses with fields beyond their back gardens on the western side, the gaps gradually filled in later with more modern housing. On the Coventry side, visible on the left in this photo, a 'shadow factory' was built behind the houses in the late 1930s, using equipment and skills from the motor industry, in this case Daimler, to make aircraft parts for the coming war. This was to become the Jaguar Browns Lane car plant, in operation from 1951 to 2005. Since 2008 housing and a business park have been built on the site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browns_Lane_plant
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Image Location
Latitude
52.433288
Longitude
-1.565171