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St Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, Foleshill, Coventry
View from St Elizabeth's Road, Foleshill. The junction with Eld Road is just out of shot to the right.
Image: © John Curran
Taken: 13 Feb 2010
0.05 miles
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Adult Education Centre, Broad Street, Foleshill, Coventry
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).
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 26 Aug 2021
0.13 miles
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A Romanian barber at the General Wolfe
She has opened her business in a front room of the otherwise empty pub, having moved there from smaller premises further up Foleshill Road. Her striped Barber Shop sign can be seen above the windows of her salon.
The building is a prominent local landmark in Foleshill and dates from around 1900, though there has been a public house here since the 18th century. The General Wolfe pub closed in 2011; see
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Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 14 Jan 2023
0.14 miles
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Former General Wolfe public house, Foleshill Road, Coventry
This building is a former public house standing at 551 Foleshill Road, at the corner with Station Road West. There has been a pub here since at least 1793. The present structure dates from around 1900 and exhibits an ornate Renaissance style executed in red brick and terracotta. It resembles Birmingham pubs more than Coventry ones, particularly those of James & Lister Lea, who may have designed it, though the architect is unknown. See the Heritage Gateway site, which quotes the City of Coventry Local List of Buildings and another City Council publication, A Survey of Public Art in Coventry, 1980, p.22 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCT317&resourceID=1029 .
General Wolfe defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City in 1759, which proved decisive in winning Canada for Britain. Both he and the French commander Montcalm died of wounds received in the fighting.
The pub was known as a rock and roll venue. It closed in 2011 and the building has since been used as a restaurant. See also the Historic Coventry site of Rob Orland https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/cph/main/pub.php?pg=general_wolfe . At the time of writing and photographing the building was disused.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 11 Sep 2021
0.14 miles
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Plaque on Broad Street Library, Foleshill, Coventry
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.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 16 Aug 2021
0.14 miles
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Broad Street Library, Foleshill, Coventry
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 .
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 16 Aug 2021
0.14 miles
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Foleshill Road looking south towards Station Street
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 31 Jul 2021
0.14 miles
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Coventry- Paradise Foleshill
The Sign on the wall of this old School building says Paradise Day Centre. It is unclear if this building is still in use.
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 9 Jan 2008
0.14 miles
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Unfinished mosque, corner of Foleshill Road and Blackwell Road, Coventry
Construction of this building seems to have halted. Known as the Edgwick Family & Learning Centre, it was given planning permission in 2005 and work began on decontaminating the site, which had once been occupied by a battery factory. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/six-months-left-finish-building-3023372 Building progress has been very slow, and when this photo was taken in July 2021 the work was far from complete.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 31 Jul 2021
0.14 miles
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Detail of Broad Street Meeting Hall, Foleshill, Coventry
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.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 16 Aug 2021
0.15 miles