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Trinity Street, COVENTRY, CV1 1FJ

This Stagecoach Midlands vehicle has been painted in Stratford Blue colours to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the company in 2017 and 70 years of the Omnibus Society’s Midland Branch. It is seen here waiting to depart from Trinity Street in Coventry on the X18 service that will take it to Stratford upon Avon via Leamington Spa. The vehicle is an Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodied Scania N230UD. Stratford-upon-Avon Blue Motors, always known as Stratford Blue, ran local services around Stratford as well as longer-distance routes to neighbouring towns. From 1935 it was a subsidiary of the much larger Midland Red but remained operationally separate until 1971 when it was absorbed into the parent company.

The north end of Trinity Street no longer goes straight on into Broadgate. It is now one-way up mainly for buses, which turn left along Ironmonger Row, foreground, past more bus stops before rejoining Hales Street. Broadgate has been handsomely pedestrianised: Image I'm told that Trinity Street and many of the buildings in it date from the 1930's – many of them (including the one in the centre of the photo) were still standing after the Blitz: see http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw001828?search=coventry&order=2&ref=461

Olympic torch relay vehicles parked in Trinity Street, shortly before the 7am start of the Coventry to Leicester leg of the relay. Trinity Street was constructed in the 1930s after the demolition of narrow streets of medieval buildings (Great Butcher Row, Little Butcher Row and the Bull Ring) and opened on 16th September 1937. The buildings visible at the top end are part of the 1950s reconstruction after WWII. The '20' road markings limiting traffic speed to 20mph are part of recently introduced traffic calming measures in the city centre.

Trinity Street is one of the most important on street terminal points for buses in Coventry city centre. It is used particularly heavily by out of town services operated by Stagecoach, three of whose buses can be seen in this view. Pool Meadow bus station, once criminally underused but now suitably busy, is only a short walk from here, hidden by the building containing the Sainsbury's supermarket.

Millennium View is an accommodation bloack overlooking Millennium Place in the centre of Coventry.

This water feature in the passageway leading from the new Priory Park development down to Pool Meadow marks the site of the mill associated with Coventry's medieval priory. The small water cascade and markings in the footpath indicate the alignment of the mill leat.

Recently built on the site of the Hippodrome theatre, this museum claims to display the world’s largest collection of British road transport, including 240 cars, commercial vehicles and buses, 100 motorcycles, over 200 cycles.

This was created by German artist Jochen Gerz and is a glass obelisk made from fused and laminated glass, lit up at night from within by a spotlight placed in the ground. It symbolises Coventry's aspirations as a City of peace and reconciliation. It is surrounded by plaques sunk in the floor each of which represents a former enemy of Coventry, now a friend.

This public payphone kiosk is in Ironmonger Row CV1 1FD and belongs to New World Payphones. Its details can be found on its website https://newworldpayphones.co.uk/kiosk/. To the left of the payphone is a large interactive LCD screen which displays a local map and useful information. These black kiosks are replacing the red telephone boxes which were common in our towns and cities. Trinity Street with its black and white buildings can be seen behind the kiosk.

The white building sailing across the bottom of Trinity Street is Millennium View, a student accommodation block completed in 2017. The red and grey building to the left is Burges House, a former office block converted to student accommodation. To the right is a mock-timber frame black and white building dating from the 1930s and housing a Wetherspoons pub. The buildings visible lining the left of Trinity Street also date from the 1930s, when Trinity Street was constructed after the demolition of an area of narrow streets of old timber-framed buildings. Similar views from previous years: 1969: Image] 2009: Image] 2011: Image] 2012: Image]