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Three Spires Avenue, COVENTRY, CV6 1JY

Rather attractive hut of the village hall type, at a street corner in a residential area of Coventry built up in the interwar period (1920s-30s). Was it originally a scouting hall, or an evangelical or pentecostal church? Whatever, it is now the Three Spires Dance School.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the side of the house near its front corner

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark levelled at 105.641m above Newlyn Datum

Observed with dropped jaw from the corner of Radford Common at the junction with Holland Road.

Coventry's commons became public open spaces by Act of Parliament in 1927. This is the southeast corner of a once much more extensive common, seen across Engleton Road at its junction with Radford Road. The level ground nearest the road was the original site of the Radford war memorial Image In the 1980s, because of increasing damage and because the ground could be muddy for the Remembrance ceremony in November, the memorial was moved to a position nearer St Nicholas Church, behind the camera Image

Looking through Radford Common's new play area to Engleton Road. Note the blue awning of Godiva Chiropractic Centre in the lower left of the picture - one of many businesses across Coventry named after the legendary Lady Godiva.

Looking across the new play area on Radford Common to Radford Road (B4098).

It commemorates those from Radford who fought in the First World War and was given to the village in 1919 by Vernon Pugh. It was originally sited on the corner of Radford Common, at the junction with Engleton Road, seen in Image and in the distance, right http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/583290 . It was moved in the 1980s at the suggestion of the British Legion, who were concerned about the damage it was incurring, and the sometimes muddy nature of the site. Thirty years on, between St Nicholas Church and the Radford Road, the memorial is no less prone to damage.