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Priory Road, WARWICK, CV34 4ND

Runwood Homes will be rebuilding their Park View care home http://www.runwoodhomes.co.uk/product.php/63/park_view_warwickshire The range of sheltered accommodation in Yeomanry Close, right, is owned and managed by Warwick District Council http://www.housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-36286-yeomanry-close-priory-road-england.aspx Update 2017: Image

Park View, a care home in Priory Road, lives up to its name here overlooking the edge of Priory Park.

A sign by Runwood Homes announces Senior Living at the rebuilt Park View. It's a private residential care home https://www.runwoodhomes.co.uk/homes/park-view-warwickshire The site adjoins Warwick District Council sheltered housing in Yeomanry Close, partly seen on the right and last photographed in July 2014: Image

An identification will be attempted. A number of uncommon trees were planted in the park in the 1990s to create an arboretum, councillors were told. It wasn't systematic: the trees were largely the Parks Manager's favourite species. Most have done well and are not out of place in a park that was once part of the grounds of Priory House, the home in retirement of Henry Wise, Gardener to Queen Anne. Photo number 7868063.

Offices in a former drill hall Image have become The Museum of the Queen's Royal Hussars (Churchill's own regiment).

Leading to St John's, Coten End and Coventry Road. Priory Road has been remodelled in the last couple of years. It's still one-way down but with a narrower carriageway and speed humps. Space has been created for a wider footway on each side. That on the left, on the Priory Park side, also serves cyclists. Cycling up Priory Road is a slog but it's safer than busy St Nicholas Church Street and Castle Hill. The entry on the right is for Priory Road pay-and-display car park.

Although a substantial former house fronting Priory Road, behind and to the right of the camera, calls itself 'The Old Drill Hall', this building to the north of it looks more like a drill hall. People working in the building certainly believed that it had been. It first appears on OS 1:2500 County Series maps dated 1913-27. It seems reasonable to surmise that it was built around the start of World War I. Its current address is No.2 Trinity Mews, Priory Road, Warwick CV34 4NA, and is home to a couple of businesses. A first floor has been inserted – the reason for the rooflights. Nothing else is known at the time of writing (July 2014). Earlier maps show a group of buildings around a courtyard garden with a fountain at its centre and glasshouses on its north side. Don Funnell writes, 10 Jan 2016: "yes it was a drill hall at least until the 1960s. My father was a military person there in the 1950s. There was even a .22 rifle range on the site." Update: September 2022. The property has opened as the Museum of the Queen's Royal Hussars (Churchill's own regiment) Image

Raoul or Rauli is the common name of a species of Southern Beech, Nothofagus procera. It was introduced to Britain from Chile in 1913. The leaves are perhaps 4-8 cm long, from the tree photographed in November 2022 Image The buds are next season's flower buds. Photo number 6718173.

This well-used grass path is parallel to the park's southern boundary.

Formerly it housed a backstreet car maintenance business.