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Alliance Way, COVENTRY, CV2 3GY

Public House on the corner of North Street and Milton Street.

Part of the Stoke Heath 'garden suburb' of council houses built in the 1920's/30's. Note the old 'Wyken Way' road sign.

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

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.

The Gurdwara Guru Hargobind is a Sikh place of worship under construction in Stoke, Coventry. It has a page on the World Gurudwaras site https://www.worldgurudwaras.com/gurudwaras/gurdwara-guru-hargobind-coventry/ (gurudwara is an alternative spelling of gurdwara), but it doesn't have much more information than I have here. Hargobind was the sixth of the ten consecutive Sikh gurus; his Wikipedia page is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Hargobind .

This parish church of the Church of England stands at the corner of Mercer Avenue and North Street, overlooking Barras Heath, a green space in the district of Stoke Heath. The building was designed by H B Creswell and opened in 1929; see the Victoria County History of Warwickshire, Vol 8, pp 361-367 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp361-367 . The church has pointed Gothic arches but the style is very plain, at least on the outside, with little ornament. The Roman roof tiles and the campanile or bell tower with bell exposed evoke Italy in this corner of Coventry.

This parish church of the Church of England stands at the corner of Mercer Avenue and North Street, overlooking Barras Heath, a green space in the district of Stoke Heath. The building was designed by H B Creswell and opened in 1929; see the Victoria County History of Warwickshire, Vol 8, pp 361-367 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp361-367 .