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Freeman Street, COVENTRY, CV6 5FF

This is a view of part of Red House Park on Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry, looking southwards to the factory buildings located between the park, Oliver Street and Cromwell Street. This district of Coventry was dominated by the Coventry Ordnance Works, an armaments factory, which closed in 1925, although some of its buildings survive. The factory buildings in this photo are not marked on the OS Six Inch map of 1912; if they were part of the ordnance works they were built after that date, perhaps during the first world war. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.42371&lon=-1.49354&layers=10&right=OSAPI For more on Red House Park see Image For a detail of the graffiti on the wall, see Image For more on the Coventry Ordnance Works see Image

The graffiti has been painted on a factory wall on the south side of the park.

Red House Park is a well-used green space in this very built-up area of Coventry. It takes its name from the Red House public house which stood on Stoney Stanton Road, to the right of this picture. Later known as Fatty Arbuckle's, it closed in 1995 and the blocks of flats called Rathbone Court, visible at the right hand side of this photo, was built on the site. The OS Six Inch Map of 1912 shows a football ground where the park now stands. See Fry, D & Smith A: The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, pp93-94. The OS 1:10560 series map of 1949-1970 shows allotments at the rear, adjoining Freeman Street, now also part of the park https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.42442&lon=-1.49287&layers=193&right=OSAPI .

The Growing Paradise community garden is looking very neglected. It is situated behind St. Barnabas Church of Masihi Sandesh at the crook of Oliver Street. This district of Coventry off Stoney Stanton Road is marked as Paradise on many maps.

The Discount Warehouse and its neighbour, the Ali Baba Fish Bar & Kebab House, stand near the bend in Stoney Stanton Road (visible to the right) and are viewed from the forecourt of Falkener House, a housing tower block.

This decrepit 19th century building stands at the junction of Stoney Stanton Road and Broad Street, Coventry. The decorative keystone lintels suggest that it might date from mid-century; the Freehold Land Society houses in similar style on Stoney Stanton Road date from the 1850s (see Fry, D & Smith A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, pp91-92). The ghostly remains of an advertisement painted on the stucco can still be made out: Bennett's Central Corn Stores, with Corn Merchant to the left and something very hard to make out to the right. David Ernest Bennett, corn dealer, is listed in Kelly's Directory between 1921 and 1940, according to the flickr user Hazel Nicholson, who posts a photo of this building here https://www.flickr.com/photos/10515323@N08/32895631286 . She identifies the building as 619 Stoney Stanton Road. The wine shop does not look as if it has done any business recently.