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Cape Road, WARWICK, CV34 5DH

Towards the town centre. Bus service G1 (G is for gold) will head through the north Warwick estates on the way to Whitnash, south of Leamington. The building to the right of the bus is St Michael's Hospital, a secure facility Image

On the eastern corner of the Hanworth Road loop. Some of their business will surely have been taken by the new branch of the Midcounties Co-op in the former Jolly Miller pub down the road Image

This path provides a convenient pedestrian route connecting Cape Road with St Michael's Road in the Cape area of Warwick. St Michael's Hospital is behind the fence on the left.

Cape Road appears to have been a route from Warwick Castle to its northern deer park at Wedgnock. Today it is a busy suburban road connecting mixed housing, assorted businesses, a few shops, allotments, GP practices and a secure mental hospital. The view is from the corner of Hanworth Road.

Looking towards the town centre from the junction with Lower Cape. The Cape name comes from the nearby Cape of Good Hope pub.

The store occupies the former Jolly Miller pub Image The ground pictured was its garden. In the left background are Cape Road houses and businesses, and a Millers Road business on the right. The viewpoint is a gate that had been left open.

Another local pub finding new life as a convenience store. It's on the corner of Cape Road, left, and Millers Road, foreground, a prime site in an area of mixed use: residential, businesses and two hospitals, with canal moorings at the Cape. I last saw this pub boarded up and before that, closed. It was looking quiet when Julian Osley photographed it in 2013 Image The go-ahead Midcounties Co-operative Society is one of two Co-ops serving Warwick and Leamington, the other being the Heart of England Co-operative Society – who don't accept the Co-operative member's card. When is the Co-op not the Co-op?

On this occasion, in the chaotic early phase of Covid-19 lockdown, there was no queuing; physical distancing was near-impossible in a cramped shop; no-one wore a face mask; checkout assistants had no protection; payment by card, preferably contactless, was preferred. Sale of some items was restricted to one per customer. The store, a favourite, is close to two hospitals Image and back at home I became anxious that I had put myself at risk.

It runs northeast from St Michael's Road.