Brooklyn Road, Foleshill, looking towards Cash's 'Hundred Houses'
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Brooklyn Road, Foleshill, looking towards Cash's 'Hundred Houses'
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 11 Sep 2021
Brooklyn Road is seen here looking westwards towards Cash's, which stands on the far side of the Coventry Canal. For a view in the opposite direction, see Image Brooklyn Road and its neighbour Matlock Road are a pair of dead-end streets that form part of a block of housing developed from 1901 in an area bounded by the canal, Foleshill Road and Cash's textile factory (the 'Hundred Houses'). See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p19. Cash's cottage factory is probably the most famous building in Foleshill. Built in 1857 by philanthropic Quaker employers, it aimed to combine cottage industry with steam power, with the top-shop looms in ribbon weavers' homes being connected to a steam engine via a drive shaft which ran through the top-floor workshops of the whole row. It was not a success, as this shared description explains https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/7070 , and was converted to a factory system with attached housing.
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Image Location
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