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St. Nicholas Street, COVENTRY, CV1 4BT

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm92986

There is an OS benchmark Image on the side of the right hand house near its front corner

Ellys Rd is a short residential road between Sandy Lane and St Nicholas St. This is the view east and the half timbered mock Tudor house on the right is called Ickleford.

The Science of the Soul meditation and study centre is under construction on a site by St Nicholas Street (from which this photo was taken), in Radford, just outside Coventry city centre. It is being developed by Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), a movement based in Punjab, India. RSSB has developed out of the Sikh tradition. The site was formerly occupied by the Coventry Coachmakers' Club; the coachmakers were a craft association within the motor industry. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news-coachmakers-social-club-15573750 This appears also to have been the site of Rosehill https://www.coventrysociety.org.uk/news/article/bird-grove-and-george-eliot-in-coventry.html , the home of Charles and Cara Bray from 1840 to 1857. Charles was a successful ribbon-manufacturer and a social reformer, while Cara was an artist and writer, also active in work for human and animal welfare. Their salon at Rosehill attracted liberal and freethinking intellectuals, most notably Mary Ann Evans, the young George Eliot, who lived nearby at Bird Grove in Foleshill. https://heritage.humanists.uk/the-rosehill-circle/ One wonders what they would have made of 'The Science of the Soul'.

There is a footpath over the railway leading from the end of the road at the left hand side of the image. There is an OS benchmark Image on the right hand side of the near house (#1 Ellys Road), near its front corner

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm92981

Early 20th century terraced housing and shops on the left, industrial units on the right. The land to the right was originally occupied by Daimler and is where the first British produced Daimler car was made in 1897. The bus, a 1945 Daimler CWD6 (registration VV8934), is approaching the entrance to the former Coventry Transport Sandy Lane bus garage (where the people are standing) where it will put down/pick up passengers being shuttled between there and the Transport Museum as part of a Coventry City Transport centenary bus rally.

The Science of the Soul meditation and study centre is under construction on a site between St Nicholas Street and Radford Road (from which this photo was taken), in Radford, just outside Coventry city centre. It is being developed by the movement Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), which is based in Punjab, India and is led by the guru Gurinder Singh. RSSB has developed out of the Sikh tradition. The site was formerly occupied by the Coventry Coachmakers' Club, a working men's club. The coachmakers were a craft association within the motor industry. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news-coachmakers-social-club-15573750 This appears also to have been the site of Rosehill https://www.coventrysociety.org.uk/news/article/bird-grove-and-george-eliot-in-coventry.html , the home of Charles and Cara Bray from 1840 to 1857. Charles was a successful ribbon-manufacturer and a social reformer, while Cara was an artist and writer, also active in work for human and animal welfare. Their salon at Rosehill attracted liberal and freethinking intellectuals, most notably Mary Ann Evans, the young George Eliot, who lived nearby at Bird Grove in Foleshill. https://heritage.humanists.uk/the-rosehill-circle/ One wonders what they would have made of 'The Science of the Soul'.

A visiting former Birmingham City Transport Guy Arab IV bus from c. 1950 (registration JOJ548) awaiting passengers to ferry back to the city centre from the entrance to the former Sandy Lane bus garage. One of several buses on display at a Coventry Transport Museum open stores day and celebration of Coventry Transport bus centenary.