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Boar Croft, COVENTRY, CV4 9SJ

Following the trend for public house and social club closures, the Tile Hill Social Club on Jardine Crescent looks pretty forlorn. Architect: K R B McKnight. Builder: A G Gale Ltd. Built: 1962/66.

The view is across Jardine Crescent. The flats appear to lack any vehicular access. Satellite photos show an on-road parking lane that clearly is not there now. Out of shot left is a construction site where the Tile Hill Social Club was: see Image, photographed in 2010. Out of shot right is the postwar St Oswald's Church: Image and related images. Before World War II this area was fields, perhaps belonging to Tilehill Farm on Hawthorn Lane, bounded to the east by a wood called North Waste. In the early 1950s maps show a network of roads lined with small square dwellings on small plots – presumed to be prefabs. The crescent was then Humphrey Wanley Crescent. The flats pictured first appear on a map of 1960; there was a court of lock-up garages off James Green Road but this is now houses. The crescent has become Jardine Crescent.

Compare E Gammie's view of 2010: Image Google Streetview shows that the Social Club had been demolished by 2012 and the site left vacant. Ahead is the Jardine Shopping Centre opposite Limbrick Wood, named as North Waste on a map of 1937.

Tile Hill estate was a corporation estate built in the 1950s on the principle of a neighbourhood unit in that it should incorporate housing with facilities such as community centre, shops, primary school, public houses and churches. Unlike estates built previously it was built with a mix of housing stock to provide for a variety of family sizes, young and old. People were moved here from several different parts of the city. The existing small woodland areas were retained and one of these, Limbrick Wood, can be seen on the right standing opposite the local shopping parade. Jardine Crescent was named after Dan Jardine, a site foreman who worked on the development. Interestingly, 1:10,560 OS maps published in 1955 show the road named as Humphrey Wanley Crescent but the official street map of Coventry published by the city of Coventry in December 1954 shows it named as Jardine Crescent. 'Humfrey' Wanley was a 17th century Coventrian who, through personal study of ancient documents and handwriting, moved on from being an apprentice draper to work with the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

On the left is the building site in Image and beyond it in Image On the right is the recent Image Out of shot right is Image

A view of the bell tower is Image The reinforced concrete is deteriorating in several places.

A view of the bell tower is Image The reinforced concrete is deteriorating in several places.

An interesting looking building on Jardine Crescent. Opened 2008.