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Middleborough Road, COVENTRY, CV1 4DD

Late 19th/early 20th century housing in Middleborough Road contrasts with the 1960s tower blocks of Naul's Mill House and Samuel Vale House at the far end of the road.

The former Coventry Brassworkers Club in Middleborough Road has been derelict for some years.

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark Image on the front face of the nearest house at its corner right of the grey downpipe and inside the brick boundary wall.

One of a number of similarly-styled tower blocks dotted about the northern fringes of Coventry, standing like sentries as if to provide early warning of incursions by Nuneaton or Hinckley. They are distinguished by projecting white concrete bands. This was built in 1968 by Terence Gregory, City Architect. Taken from a footbridge over Coventry's apparently omnipresent ring road.

Looking across Belgrade Plaza and Upper Well Street towards Naul's Mill House tower block.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm89755

Footbridge traversing the Radford Road dual carriageway, where its concrete-sided cutting bisects the older Middleborough Road, with its Victorian houses. The photo is taken from the western half of Middleborough Road looking east towards Samuel Vale House, the housing block visible behind the bridge. The near side of the bridge connects with the forecourt of Naul's Mill House, off to the left of the photo, a tower block very similar in design to Samuel Vale House. Bridge, cutting and dual carriageway would have been built around 1964, along with the section of the ring road off to the right of the picture that connects with Radford Road by a roundabout. https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/postwar/postwar.php?pg=develop The tower blocks were built shortly afterwards. https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/st-nicholas-street The footbridge overlooks the ring road, with its roundabout and flyover, and the adjoining part of the city centre around the Belgrade Theatre. The footbridge is useful for getting from densely built-up inner Radford to Naul's Mill Park.

This is Radford Road, looking towards the city centre, during the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, towards the end of March 2020. The photographer was doing essential food shopping and had just got off the bus that can be seen beyond the sign.

Coventry fire station, Radford Road, Coventry, West Midlands

The 1970's fire station at the junction of Radford Road and Ringway Hill Cross undergoing demolition. It is to be replaced with an updated station on the same site. Naul's Mill House residential tower block stands in the background. In 2007: Image]