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Marlborough Road, COVENTRY, CV2 4EN

The museum shares a small arcade with related businesses, including the Simmer Down Caribbean restaurant. The covered arcade connects Marlborough Road with Walsgrave Road in the Ball Hill district of Coventry, in the Stoke area of the city. For more on 2 Tone and Coventry see Image The building is flying a Coventry flag Image

Old shops on Walsgrave Road.

Ball Hill is a busy local shopping centre on Walsgrave Road, on the East Side of Coventry. It is usually choked with traffic

Despite being choked with road traffic, Ball Hill in Stoke is a lively multicultural neighbourhood with many locally-owned shops. There have been some changes in the ten years since the last Geograph image of this location was submitted. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2477928 The pound shop has become the Easy Shop & Butcher selling halal meat, although the pound shop strapline survives on the fascia board. The Flames Grill has hardly changed, but the Dental Lab, which offered to make and repair dentures, is now the modestly-named Excellent Food Store, selling African & Caribbean food. The Ball Hill Shoe & Key Centre is now Keys Cut & Shoe Repairs, so little has changed there.

The Churchill Hotel is on the corner of Churchill Rd and the Walsgrave rd just east of Coventry city centre.

The Old Ball Hotel was known before the early 20th century as the Ball Inn, which is said to have given its name to Ball Hill, known formerly as Stoke Knob. https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/cph/main/pub.php?pg=old_ball_stoke

The very busy A4600 Walsgrave Road at Ball Hill, named presumably after the Old Ball Hotel at its summit, the white building at the left of this picture. To the right is a vernacular cottage, like the Old Ball another survivor of old Stoke Knob, though much altered, and to its right the early 20th century Churchill Hotel, with its classical facade with rounded pediment.

A European food shop at the corner of Walsgrave Road and Clay Lane in Ball Hill, Coventry, is advertising Bulgarian sheep milk cheese (note the white, green and red colours of the Bulgarian flag). A consequence of Bulgaria joining the European Union in 2007 is that there is now a significant Bulgarian community in Coventry. Some of its members could be seen, dressed in national costume, marching in the 'This is the City' parade Image] that marked the official end of the UK City of Culture celebrations in Coventry.