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Broad Street Library is one of three built in Coventry in 1911-12 with funds provided by the Carnegie Foundation. For a fuller description and a photo of the building as seen from the street, see here Image The library was rebuilt after an arson attack in 2003, and this extension has presumably been added since then. The lawn is used for storytelling sessions for young children. The small dome or turret belongs to the original Carnegie building.

The mural has been painted on the side wall of the house adjoining the meeting hall.

Broad Street meeting hall was the brainchild of a local businessman; it opened in 2000 and was registered as a charity three years later. It offers a meeting space for local community groups and service providers. See its website here http://broadstreetmeetinghall.co.uk/home-2/about/ The original meeting hall occupied a former Salvation Army mission hut. It was replaced in 2020 by the building shown in the photograph, which was designed by the Dutch architect Joelle Bolt of BPN Architects. The distinctive striped gable end is faced with powder-coated aluminium drainpipe material and symbolises the cultural diversity of the Foleshill district. The building is notable for its very high thermal efficiency. See this report from the Coventry Society https://news.coventrysociety.org.uk/2020/05/11/broad-street-meeting-hall-all-ready-to-open/ .

One of three Carnegie libraries in Coventry; the others are on Earlsdon Avenue North in Earlsdon and on Walsgrave Road in Stoke. Carnegie libraries were built with money given by the Scottish-American business magnate Andrew Carnegie; over 2000 were constructed between 1886 and 1929, 660 of them in Britain & Ireland. The libraries were an expression of his belief in self-help and were deliberately built in prominent public places, typically with a grand entrance with steps, symbolising the raising up of the reader through learning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library The city of Coventry approached Carnegie and his foundation in 1910 for funding to build three branch libraries, and was awarded £10000, on condition the city provided the land and an additional rate (tax) to fund the running of the libraries, which it did the following year. https://www.coventry.gov.uk/downloads/file/20370/req00916 The Coventry libraries are built in red brick with sandstone dressings in a baroque style. They are all still in use as public libraries. Broad Street Library was burned down by arsonists in 2003 and most of the stock - which included the city's main collection of multicultural library books and materials - was destroyed. The library was subsequently rebuilt and restocked. See this Coventry Telegraph report https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/libraries-set-2m-new-chapter-3147790 .

Plaque erected in 1912 on Broad Street Library, one of three Coventry library buildings funded by the Carnegie Foundation; the others are on Walsgrave Road in Stoke and on Earlsdon Avenue North in Earlsdon.

This is the entrance to the old hall, which no longer exists, through the adjoining Victorian house and shopfront, which still stand next to the new meeting hall, which opened in 2020.

One of a number of similarly-styled tower blocks dotted about the northern fringes of Coventry, standing like sentries as if to provide early warning of incursions by Nuneaton or Hinckley. They are distinguished by projecting white concrete bands and closely resemble designs by City Architect, Arthur Ling. Built 1961.

It's called Falkland House and has one or two copies nearby.

The centre occupies the buildings of the Broad Street school, which opened in 1911 and became Broad Heath School in 1949 (Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p36).

Nature is taking over this un-maintained border by an industrial building on Broad Street, Coventry.