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Aldermans Green Road, COVENTRY, CV2 1PP

Built in 1908 according to inscription in the stonework around the doorway.

Situated next to the Jubilee Hall in Alderman's Green Road.

Situated in Alderman's Green Road almost opposite the Free Methodist Church.

This street of houses off Alderman's Green Road was built shortly before the First World War by the Coventry Perseverance Co-operative Society. See Fry, D & Smith A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018.

Mill House is a historic building surrounded by a modern housing estate with bird-themed street names. The house is a Grade II listed building, one of only two in Alderman's Green (the other is the war memorial by the Methodist Church). The Historic England site describes it as 18th century, altered in the 19th https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1076654?section=official-list-entry . The ornamental bargeboards on the gables give it a Victorian appearance. Round the back is a miniature cottage with its own small bargeboards on the dormer window. In the distance can be seen the junction of Alderman's Green Road and Eburne Road.

"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." Henry Thoreau, 'Walden' (see 'Walden' at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm ). Perhaps that's true even when the lake is the result of subsidence caused by coal mining, as at Wyken Pool in Coventry. Perhaps even when the lake is sandwiched between the roaring M6 motorway Image] and some of the city's most deprived neighbourhoods Image

A footbridge crosses the river just below a weir. Longford Park occupies the floodplain of the Sowe, and the course of the river has been much altered here, so that through the eastern side of the park it follows neither its historic course nor that of the mill course that supplied Foleshill Mill Image A 'weeping' cultivar of the Chinese willow Salix babylonica has been planted to create an attractive riverside walk; see Image

A mill race is a channel constructed to conduct water away from a stream or river to power the wheel of a watermill and then onwards to rejoin the main stream again. This path runs alongside the course of the mill race downstream from Foleshill Mill, along which the water flowed from the mill back into the River Sowe. Mill and mill race can be seen on the OS six inch map (1888-1913 series). There is no sign of them now. Just beyond the cast iron posts the path bridges the modern course of the Sowe, immediately downstream from where it was joined by the mill race. It then follows the course of the mill race to Mill House, an 18th century house Image

This is a view of Wyken Pool on Boxing Day 2022, seen from the eastern shore looking towards Alderman's Green School among the trees to the west. The pool is a flash caused by coal mining subsidence in the 19th century. It is Coventry's largest body of water, much appreciated by water birds and by local people.

For more on Wyken Pool, a creation of 19th century coal mining subsidence, see Image