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Wycliffe Road West, COVENTRY, CV2 3DX

The uncial, 'Celtic' lettering of the sign suggests an Irish bakery, but it is stronger on samosas than soda bread, which reflects changes in the local population of Stoke, Coventry, over the years.

The houses of Dane Road are typical 1930s Motor City suburbia, but the building to the right, fronting onto Walsgrave Road, and with OFFICES carved over the door, is clearly older, late 19th or early 20th century, and is marked on the OS Six Inch Series map of that era. There are modern industrial premises behind it, which now have planning permission for redevelopment as retirement housing. The offices were, until the 1980s, those of Youell the builders, who constructed many of the suburban houses in this part of the city. Nearby stood a weighing house, long since demolished.

North Street forms part of Upper Stoke, a block of streets to the east of Barras Heath that seems to have been built up piecemeal in the 19th century with a great variety of house types. The row of six three-storey houses to the right are unmistakeably ribbon-weavers' houses with their high top-shops on the topmost floor for the tall jacquard looms. The outlines of the large windows, now partly filled in with bricks of a different colour and texture, can clearly be seen, except on the pair of houses that have been rendered. The pair of houses on the left has the red and yellow chequerboard brickwork that is very common in parts of Warwickshire.

Looking along Ansty Rd to the North East. M6 Junction 2 is about 2 1/2 miles away. To the left is the playing field known locally as The Annexe

Large Pub and Carvery on the Corner of Walsgrave Road and Ansty Road

The Walsgrave is a roadside pub of the 1930s, in a very grand Queen Anne style, with a distinctive hipped roof with very tall chimneys. It is situated where the main road turns an abrupt corner, changing from Walsgrave Road, on which the pub officially stands, to Ansty Road.

The Grange public house on Alfall Road opened in 1937, according to the Coventry's Pub History site https://pubhistory.historiccoventry.co.uk/main/pub.php?pg=grange . It took its name from Wyken Grange Farm, on which the houses in this area were built. The pub closed in 2013 and reopened as a convenience store of the Heart of England Co-operative Society in 2016. Note the outdoor automatic mini-laundrette facing onto the car park just beyond the store entrance.

A Crown Carveries public house and restaurant along the A4600 Walsgrave Road.

The former Grange pub, now a Co-op store, can be seen across Dennis Road.