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Gates to St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Chace Avenue, Willenhall, southeast Coventry
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.05 miles
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North on Chace Avenue near St Anne's School, Willenhall, Coventry
The houses on the right are part of the residential development on the site of the Chase National Service Hostel built in 1941, later the Chace Hostel. It provided temporary accommodation for homeless people and those seeking permanent homes in the city. In the late 1980s (I'm guessing) residents moved into the Chace Centre on the west side of Chace Avenue as the original site was cleared and developed for housing. The Chace Centre itself is now being demolished.
On the left a fine oak tree comes into leaf, at first a characteristic olive green colour.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.07 miles
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Path to the open space behind the school and a building, Chace Avenue, Willenhall
The school is St Anne's Catholic Primary School; the anonymous building on the left may be a remand centre
Image The extensive open space and playing fields to the west are bounded by scrub along the River Sowe
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Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.10 miles
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Open space between the River Sowe and the back of Chace Avenue, Willenhall, Coventry
The river meanders through blackthorn scrub. The viewpoint is at the rear of Willenhall Police Station
Image An icy shower was moving away east.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.12 miles
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Unidentified building next to Willenhall Police Station, Chace Avenue, Coventry
It looks new, secure and faceless. The downstairs windows are of mirror glass; upstairs windows have vertical blinds drawn: a remand centre, perhaps. On the left of the photo is a corner of
Image, occupied by West Midlands Police.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.12 miles
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Blackthorn and hawthorn by the River Sowe south of the Alan Higgs Centre, Coventry
Hawthorn (and willows) coming into new leaf. Blackthorn – clouds of white flowers dusting black thickets everywhere – a riot, a joy. Bleached stems in the foreground are probably last year's nettles; the new growth is showing. The river, hardly visible, takes a sharp turn south here.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 27 Apr 2016
0.13 miles
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East on Dunsmore Avenue, Willenhall, southeast Coventry
These houses were built on the site of the Chace hostels.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.13 miles
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The Sowe Valley Footpath turns south past Willenhall, Coventry
Across a playing field is the rear of St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School, Chace Avenue, Willenhall.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.14 miles
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An inviting gap
Rough grass to the south of a football pitch http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4968942 is bounded by this hedgerow. Just through the gap is a short footbridge over a ditch, part of the groundworks at the Alan Higgs Centre. Beyond is a wilderness of scrub, wetland and landscape planting to the north of the River Sowe.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 27 Apr 2016
0.14 miles
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In a blackthorn thicket near the River Sowe, Willenhall Brookstray, Coventry
Overhead – a cloud of pure white blossom and pale blue sky between showers.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 30 Apr 2016
0.15 miles