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Corporation Street, COVENTRY, CV1 1PB

A memorial plinth displaying two tablets, situated in Lidice Place, outside the Lower Precinct. Coventry established a friendship/twinning link with the Czech village of Lidice in 1947, when representatives from Coventry attended the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the new village. Old Lidice had been destroyed in 1942, and most of its inhabitants executed, by the Nazi occupying forces. https://www.coventry.gov.uk/twintownsandcities This atrocity was committed in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the German governor of occupied Bohemia & Moravia, by a unit of the Czechoslovak army in exile, based in Britain. The Czech soldiers were killed resisting arrest in Prague, and are remembered by a memorial in the Jephson Gardens in Leamington, the town where they had trained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich

Restored timber-framed building on the junction of Spon Street with Corporation Street. Many buildings in this area have been moved and rebuilt from elsewhere in the city.

Looking into Queen Victoria Road, with Coventry's colossal IKEA showroom on the right.

Corporation Street on the right; Lower Holyhead Road in the sun, upper left.

Queen Victoria Road runs behind the building, in this view from IKEA.

Restored timber-framed building on the junction of Spon Street with Corporation Street. Many buildings in this area have been moved and rebuilt from elsewhere in the city.

A small section of reconstituted town wall constructed on the line of wall near Spon Street. As such it is not scheduled as a monument as other parts of the city wall are. In the background is the grade I listed 14th century church of St John the Baptist.

These buildings in Fleet Street, despite appearances, seem to have been built, or, possibly, re-erected, in 1990. A plaque thereon records that the buildings were awarded the Evening Telegraph Design Award in that year. Timber framed and plastered under a tile roof. Coventry is a large city in the West Midlands, on the River Sherbourne. It is some 16 miles southeast of Birmingham and 85 miles northwest of London. There is evidence of occupation earlier, but the present settlement grew around the abbey of St Mary, founded in 1043, and Coventry became an important medieval city. Over the centuries the principal industries have been weaving, watch making, cycle manufacturing and the production of motor vehicles. The city centre has been almost entirely rebuilt following bombing damage in WWII and includes a new cathedral built in 1962.

The rear of nos. 1 and 2 in the Spon Street townscape,which were formerly nos. 54-57 Spon Street and stood to the west of the ring road before being dismantled in 1973-4 and reconstructed here in 1988 and 1990. They date from the 15th century. Beyond them stands Mercia House, constructed in 1967 and currently undergoing some refurbishment which seems to include enclosing the open balconies.