IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Stoney Stanton Road, COVENTRY, CV1 4NS

In 1975, from the tower of St Michael's cathedral church. Foreground left: The white building is the Art Deco style Coventry Theatre (The Hippodrome) demolished in 2002 and replaced by an extension to the Coventry Transport Museum. The red-brick building with a tower is the old fire station, now restaurants. The trees within the inner ring road are in Lady Herbert's Garden, within which is a stretch of the old town wall (built 14th-16th centuries) at either end of which are the only two surviving town gates: Cook Street Gate at the far end and Swanswell Gate this end. Just beyond the ring road is Swanswell pool and park, next to Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. Beyond is Foleshill and on the centre horizon the gas holders of Foleshill gas works, the last of which was demolished in 2002. The central tall industrial chimney is the 365ft (111m) high Courtaulds chimney, built 1924, demolished around 1987. To its left is the smaller 164ft (50m) chimney, also Courtaulds, demolished in 2010. This view is taken from the same position and in the same direction as the BBC Domesday reloaded 1986 photograph. A 2007 view in this direction: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/560234

One of the old hospital buildings that is now boarded up. Most of the hospital admissions for Coventry are now taken at the University Hospital at Walsgrave. This site on Stoney Stanton Road will probably be redeveloped. Edmund Bird informs me that this building was listed Grade II by English Heritage by virtue of its special historic and architectural interest in 1998 (together with the old outpatients block on the corner of Swanswell and Stony Stanton Road) so both are protected from demolition. Hopefully a new use can bring them to life once again soon.

Buildings of the former Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital which closed in 2006 when its accident and emergency functions transferred to the new hospital at Walsgrave (SP3880) on the north eastern edge of the city. The hospital had been on this site since the 1860's and suffered severe damage from several direct hits during WW2.

On Stoney Stanton Road. It dates from 1868 and closed in 1972. More recently it became part of Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital

The building is a former church.

The giant Lady Godiva animated puppet returned to Coventry after a year away and celebrated by taking a turn round the inner ring road in her Cyclopedia accompanied by members of the public taking the opportunity to ride the anticlockwise carriageway free of traffic - the clockwise carriageway was open as normal.

At the junction with Tower Street

After a year away, the giant animated Lady Godiva in her multi tricycle-powered Cyclopedia passes under the gantry just before junction 1, the Foleshill Road turn-off on the inner ring road. Accompanied by members of the public she is taking a circuit of the inner ring road on the anti-clockwise carriageway which has been closed for the event. Traffic continues as normal on the clockwise carriageway.

Part of the A4053 at the northern edge of the city's inner ring road.

At the junction with the A4053 Coventry Ring Road