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Virginia Place, NUNEATON, CV10 7RX

The picture shows modern housing typical of this area to the west of Nuneaton.

This picture was taken from the top of a mound at the bottom of Cambridge Drive, looking north-west towards Montana Walk. This landscaped green stretch of mounds and hollows, surrounded by housing developments dating from the 1980s-90s, is what has become of the land formerly occupied by Stanley's brickworks, whose factory was a little further to the east, just south of Croft School.

This church on Croft Road was founded in 1907; see its page on the Congregational Federation website here https://www.congregational.org.uk/find-a-church/church-finder/120/stockingford . Congregational churches grew out of the Independents of the 17th century Puritan movement, each local congregation being independent and choosing its own pastor. In time they formed a Congregational Union and then a Congregational Church, which in 1972 joined with the Presbyterian Church of England to form the United Reformed Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_Union_of_England_and_Wales . Some however, chose to remain independent, as this congregation clearly did.

Traffic queues for around one hundred yards on the opposite side of the road waiting for a bus which is blocking the road while loading a passenger.

Croft Road can be seen in the foreground, Heath End Road at the right hand side of the picture. The building at the corner has clearly been much modernised, but still retains its distinctive curving Dutch gable topped with a little pediment. To its left is a former Co-op building, identifiable by the letters NCS, standing for Nuneaton Co-operative Society. It has very distinctive beige-coloured terracotta tiles, some with vertical banding, giving it a jazzy, art deco appearance. Easyfit, suppliers of bedroom furniture, now occupy both buildings.

Cambridge Drive is part of a (when compared with the rest of Stockingford) relatively modern housing development east of Westbury Road. The fairly large detached houses contrast with the Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing and more recent council homes in the surrounding area. The end of Sussex Close is visible on the left.

With the low winter Sun highlighting its attractiveness, Stockingford Methodist Church, on Arbury Road, is a relatively small and apparently quite early example of Methodist architecture.