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Allesley Old Road, COVENTRY, CV5 8FJ

Allesley Old Road, looking towards the junction with Four Pounds Avenue and Queensland Road. Until the 1920s this was on the western fringe of the city, with a handful of houses along the road beyond the watchmaking district of Chapelfields. The rendered 19th century house at the far right of the picture bears a plaque erected by the Coventry Watch Museum Project, indicating that this was Cambrian House, site of the watchmakers W H Adams and Son from 1889 to 1953. In the 1920s and 1930s this stretch of the road and the fields behind were filled with housing, shop units and the occasional roadside pub like the Maudslay, not visible here. A single-storey shop unit dated 1929 on the parapet, formerly Enchanted Interiors, now houses the Iqra Learning Centre, a mosque.

A former watch making premises, identified by the Coventry Watch Museum Project plaque, shown here Image This is the 15th site on the Coventry Watchmakers' Heritage Trail. The 16th site is at 51 Allesley Old Road, Image, which is currently being redeveloped, and not displaying a plaque. The 17th site on the trail is Image The prior site on the trail is Image

A single-storey commercial building on a main road out of Coventry, dated 1929 on the parapet, and now in use as a mosque and madrassah (Islamic school).

"Love where you live, stop littering." The mural advertises the neighbouring flower shop and shares its colour scheme. The artist is Katie Sullivan of Katie-O-Art.

A 'roadhouse' style public house constructed in the 1920s/30s, as was most of the housing nearby. It stands on Allesley Old Road opposite the bottom of Maudslay Road where the Maudslay Motor Co. had a works in the 1920s-30s. At the time of this photo the pub was an M&B (Mitchells and Butlers) establishment. To the right, the National Petroleum sign is on the forecourt of the Old Road Garage, later to be replaced by a monumental mason's business. In 2009 : http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1236779