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Guinea Crescent, COVENTRY, CV4 8HW

Formerly the Cable and Wireless College, this building won the RFAC/Sunday Times Building Of The Year Award in 1994.

This ornamental pond is at the Network Rail HQ on Westwood heath Rd.

This attractive building was originally constructed for the Cable & Wireless college.

The Network Rail building was constructed as the Cable & Wireless College and many people still know it by that name. The Network Rail use may be more appropriate, as some people think it looks like a railway station!

Westwood Heath Road runs along the boundary between Coventry And Warwickshire. At this point, there is housing to the left with open vistas over Warwickshire farmland. Once a quiet backwater, the road has become a bit of a race track in recent years hence the solar-power assisted 30mph warning signs, one of which is visible to the left of the oak which stands at the lane entrance to Lodge Farm.

Westward Heath came within the Coventry boundary with the 1928 boundary extensions. However it remained largely rural until the last quarter of the 20th century, when housing and a business park were constructed.

On the very south west edge of Coventry close to the Westwood Business Park all the houses are to the north (right) of the road with fields to the south (left).

The roadnames in this new development adjacent to Westwood Heath Road seem to be themed on pre-decimalisation currency. This is Farthing Drive (£0.006)

Canley forms part of the block of land, around 20,000 acres, that Coventry Corporation bought in 1926 from the Leigh family of Stoneleigh Abbey. From the 1940s it was developed with council housing, forming a linear estate extending east to west along Charter Avenue, and providing affordable housing amidst open spaces to industrial workers and their families. These four storey blocks of flats are typical of Coventry council housing from the 1950s and early 1960s. The adjoin Park Wood, one of the Stoneleigh Estate woods that was preserved by the city council. This juxtaposition of housing and woods, often council estates and ancient woodland, is very characteristic of the urban landscape of Canley and Tile Hill on the western edge of the city. Ruth Cherrington, a historian who grew up in Canley, charts the rise and fall of this industrial community in a three-part blog at the Municipal Dreams site: see https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/canley_estate_coventry/ , https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/the-canley-estate-coventry-building-the-community/ and https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/canley-today-not-a-reassuring-neighbourhood/ .