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Bird Street, COVENTRY, CV1 5FX

The building is a former church.

Only the datum cut of the Ordnance Survey cut mark bench mark (which is described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm113715 ) is visible above the cut down vegetation

There is an OS benchmark Image on the near corner of the building where the metal fence abuts

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.

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

There is an OS benchmark Image on the stone wall left of the wall pier in the middle of the image

The fountains are still flowing, despite the sub-zero temperatures. A variety of bird-life is perched on the ice - mainly geese, gulls, ducks, a few swans and a coot or two.

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

A sandstone arch frames one of the entrances into the small park that surrounds Swanswell Pool.

Ice, snow and bird-life on Swanswell Pool. The pool is long-established and shown on John Speed's 1610 map of Coventry. It was later incorporated into a small recreational park.