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Laggan Close, NUNEATON, CV10 9TF

A Co-op convenience store stands on the corner of Bucks Hill and Sherbourne Avenue in this Nuneaton suburb.

The casual passer-by in Whittleford Road might wonder why a modern bungalow has what looks like a war memorial in its front garden. Stepping back, the perforated ridge tiles suggest that the building is older. A look at old maps shows it there in the 1914-22 edition, just inside the entrance to the Nuneaton Colliery, which was first mapped there in 1903, when the road was called Bucks Hill. The mine has long been closed. The website of the Nuneaton Local History Group http://www.nuneatonlocalhistorygroup.org.uk notes that the memorial was unveiled on 8th January 1922 by Brigadier General Sir John Barnsley VD DL TD [?] a director of Stanley Bros Ltd who owned the mine. The recess in the rough grey granite has clearly held an inscribed plaque or plate that is not there now: Image Update, December 2017: the plaque has been restored, as seen in Image

The casual passer-by in Whittleford Road might wonder why a modern bungalow has what looks like a war memorial in its front garden Image Stepping back, the perforated ridge tiles suggest that the building is older. A look at old maps shows it there in the 1914-22 edition, just inside the entrance to the Nuneaton Colliery, which was first mapped there in 1903, when the road was called Bucks Hill. The mine has long been closed. The website of the Nuneaton Local History Group http://www.nuneatonlocalhistorygroup.org.uk notes that the memorial was unveiled on 8th January 1922 by Brigadier General Sir John Barnsley VD DL TD [?] a director of Stanley Bros Ltd who owned the mine. The recess in the rough grey granite has clearly held an inscribed plaque or plate that is not there now. Update, December 2017: the plaque has been restored, as seen in Image The view is southeast down Whittleford Road towards Nuneaton's southwestern suburbs.

This is a closer view of the memorial described in detail here: Image . The inscribed plaque, missing then, has evidently been replaced.

The park looks as though it is managed more for wildlife than for people. Long grass has been cut in autumn, perhaps, and left to lie. To be fair, the site may well be former colliery or industrial land and management options are constrained; there may also be budgetary reasons for not collecting cut grass.

A public house on Whittleford Road.

There IS a way in. Such arrangements are designed to keep unwelcome users out – bikes, motorbikes, cars, possibly horses also.

View from Whittleford Road bridge down into cutting. Station was once where train is seen passing on its way to Birmingham. Stockingford is a suburb of Nuneaton and was once a heavy mining area. Surprising that more recent expansion of residential accommodation hasn't seen plans for recreation of station.