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Kingsway, COVENTRY, CV2 4FF

The novelty single Mouldy Old Dough became an unexpected British number one hit in 1972. It was recorded by Lieutenant Pigeon - essentially Rob Woodward and his mum Hilda, plus drum and bass - in the front room of 25 Kingsway, Stoke, Coventry. A blue plaque on the house, courtesy of the Coventry Music Museum https://www.covmm.co.uk/2020/07/07/lieutenant-pigeon/ , records the fact. My mother was shocked to hear this 'song' on the radio - no words, except a man groaning the words 'mouldy old dough'. As her mother used to say, "People were easily amused in those days."

At the junction of Kingsway and Walsgrave Road. A respectable business in these premises for a change.

One of three Carnegie libraries in Coventry; the others are on Earlsdon Avenue North in Earlsdon and on Broad Street in Foleshill. Carnegie libraries were built with money given by the Scottish-American business magnate Andrew Carnegie; over 2000 were constructed between 1886 and 1929, 660 of them in Britain & Ireland. The libraries were an expression of his belief in self-help and were deliberately built in prominent public places, typically with a grand entrance with steps, symbolising the raising up of the reader through learning, something which is very evident at Stoke, although a ramp has also been provided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library The city of Coventry approached Carnegie and his foundation in 1910 for funding to build three branch libraries, and was awarded £10000, on condition the city provided the land and an additional rate (tax) to fund the running of the libraries, which it did the following year. https://www.coventry.gov.uk/downloads/file/20370/req00916 The Coventry libraries are built in red brick with sandstone dressings in a baroque style. They are all still in use as public libraries.

Built by Andrew Carnegie similar to Image

The church nearly closed in recent times but has managed to regenerate itself

One of the major routes out of the city centre.

The bridge carries the A444 road which follows the course of the dismantled loop line which enabled the coal trains to avoid Coventry Station.

In the distance is the A444 road bridge.

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.

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