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Thomas Street, COVENTRY, CV1 3ER

The trees are bare and the shadows are long, indicating that this image was taken on a winter's day.

The B4101 coming out from the Ringway.

Looking towards trees alongside the road.

View from the bridge on Meadow Street. The river is channelled the other side into a concrete culvert which takes it under Coventry city centre.

This canal bridge, made by Horseley Iron Works, was removed from near Sowe Common (SP3782) in the early 1970s during construction work for the M6, which at that point runs very close by the canal. It was installed here as a footbridge over the River Sherbourne. The flats and maisonettes nearby were built in the 1950s and 1960s to replace Victorian red-brick terraces. In 2009: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1182125

The lettering on the left of the arch reads 'Horseley Iron Works', the firm in Tipton which made several bridges like this for the Oxford canal. It was installed here as a footbridge over the river Sherbourne in the early 1970s after being removed from near Sowe Common (SP3782) during construction work for the M6, which at that point runs very close by the canal. The bridges were originally installed over redundant loops on the Oxford canal when it was straightened during the 19th century. Other examples can be seen at Braunston: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1170434; Newbold on Avon : http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/59373 and Cathiron: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825458 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/457733 A 1974 view: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1182119 A scheduled monument (ID 1005883)

This is the point where the river Sherbourne passes under Meadow Street and begins its culverted journey under the city centre. The bridge is a former Oxford canal bridge made by Horseley Iron Works. The nearby flats and maisonettes were built in the 1950s and 1960s to replace Victorian red-brick terraces.

Corrie House on Meadow Street.

Raised bed with severely-trimmed bushes (various species, but not yew) outside the Elim Pentecostal Church. It is oddly reminiscent of the marzipan balls on a simnel cake, but there are too many bushes for the 11 disciples (minus Judas Iscariot), so perhaps it represents the women weeping at the foot of the cross, or perhaps believers generally ('When I survey the wondrous cross'), who knows?

This iron footbridge contrasts with the postwar buildings which surround it. The bridge, which dates from the 1830s, originally spanned the Oxford Canal. It was moved to its current location over the River Sherbourne in around 1969 or 1970. It is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.