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Allesley Old Road, COVENTRY, CV5 8DF

This view along the road is looking towards Coventry.

This site has been empty for a number of years and is in danger of becoming overgrown.

This modern block of apartments replaced the workshop of Frederick Trahern, manufacturer of fine gold watch cases. His business started in the late 19th Century and the family continued to manufacture cases here until the late 1960s. The original plaque is missing but probably stated Workshop of Frederick Trahern - Watch Case Maker - 1874 - 1970

This new block of apartments has been built on the site of the old Antelope Services, demolished about 2005. Before the construction of the service station in the 1970s, the near corner at Mount Street was occupied by no. 61 Allesley Old Road, a master watchmaker's house with workshop behind. In 2012 : Image]

New apartments have now been constructed on the site of the former Antelope Services which had been left undeveloped since its demolition around 2005. Before the construction of the service station in the 1970s the Allesley Old Road frontage between Lord Street and Mount street housed a short group of shops with accommodation above set back from the road, book-ended by two master watchmaker dwellings with workshops dating from the second half of the 19th century.

Victorian redbrick terraces in Chapel Fields.

On Allesley Old Road, between Mount and Lord Streets.

A former watch making premises, identified by the Coventry Watch Museum Project plaque, shown here Image This is the 14th site on the Coventry Watchmakers' Heritage Trail. The next site on the trail is Image The prior site on the trail is Image

Catering for both NHS and Private patients.

Just visible beyond the two copper beeches on the left is a petrol station constructed in the 1970s on the site of former master watchmakers' houses. Since this photo was taken it has been demolished and the site remains undeveloped in 2013. One of the two beeches has been felled in the intervening years. The buildings on the left are at the northern edge of the 19th century Chapelfields bounded by Craven Street, Mount Street and Allesley Old Road which housed watchmakers' premises. The current Chapelfields encompasses a larger area. Allesley Old Road itself once formed part of an old coach road between London and Holyhead when it was the turnpike road to Birmingham, before being bypassed by the construction of Holyhead Road as part of Telford's 1830s improvements to the route. In 2013: Image]