1
School Crossing on St James' Lane
It is going home time and the children are pouring out of Willenhall Community Primary School on St James' Lane.
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 15 May 2023
0.07 miles
2
East end of Yarningale Road seen from Middle Ride, Willenhall, southeast Coventry
The low sun catches the leaves on a few shoots trailing from a much-pruned weeping willow.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 5 Jan 2017
0.08 miles
3
Whitefriars Housing office for Willenhall tenants, St James' Lane, southeast Coventry
There is a small depot behind for the Homeworks housing repairs team. The scrubby woodland at the back has developed in recent years. From the 1930s to the 1970s the land is shown on old maps as a market garden and later as a nursery. This office may be the building that appears around 1980. A view from the west is
Image
Whitefriars Housing is a registered social landlord, Coventry's largest. It is part of the WM Housing Group: https://www.wmhousing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/documents-corporate-groupstructure-group-structure-chart.pdf
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 5 Oct 2016
0.10 miles
4
Willenhall, The Bear
Modern pub at the corner of St James Lane & Wroxall Avenue. Internally, bar to left, drinking area to right, games room (pool) to rear; TV, music (very loud), games machines. No cask ale available at my visit, despite the sign outside; appears to be a male preserve.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 21 Nov 2010
0.12 miles
5
Willenhall, Catholic church
St. Anne's R.C. Church, on the corner of St. James Lane and Dunsmore Avenue. http://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish_directory_detail.asp?parish=166
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 21 Nov 2010
0.14 miles
6
St John the Divine Church, Willenhall, Coventry
This Anglican church was built in 1957 and was one of three parish churches in the city designed by Basil Spence, the architect of the new Cathedral.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: Unknown
0.17 miles
7
Old Houses, St James lane
A few of the older buildings in this area largely dominated by post-war development.
Image: © David Stowell
Taken: 6 Aug 2005
0.17 miles
8
Church of St John the Divine, Robin Hood Road, Willenhall, southeast Coventry
The front of the church, built in 1957 and designed by Basil Spence, is seen here:
Image Thanks to Alan Paxton for information in
Image
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 5 Jan 2017
0.17 miles
9
Blocks of flats being fitted with external insulation, Wroxall Drive, Willenhall
Part of a large programme of cladding undertaken by social housing providers in Coventry at this time.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 30 Apr 2014
0.17 miles
10
Church of St John the Divine, Robin Hood Road, Willenhall, southeast Coventry
Built in 1957 and designed by Basil Spence along with two other neighbourhood churches in Coventry. The rear of the church is seen in
Image A number 60 bus heads for Arena Park in the north of the city. Photographed in the late afternoon of a bright day in early October.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 5 Oct 2016
0.17 miles