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Stoney Stanton Road, COVENTRY, CV6 5FX

The community hall occupies a former Primitive Methodist School of 1907, as can be seen from the inscriptions on the facade; there is also a large cross indelibly incorporated in the brickwork, standing out in relief. Paradise Primitive Methodist Chapel (Paradise is the name of the district) was first built in 1828, was rebuilt in 1865, and the Sunday school was built alongside it. The chapel has since been demolished. See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p97. According to its website, Shree Mandhata Samaj UK is an association of Koli Patels, a jati or caste originally from Navsari District in Gujarat, India. Many members subsequently emigrated to East Africa, where they adopted the name Mandhata Samaj for their community. They retained it when they moved later to Britain and other countries as political conditions became difficult for them in East Africa. https://www.amsuk.org/about-us/

This plot of land, fenced off from the road, is an unexpected patch of green in a very built-up area. On the far side can be seen the windowless wall of a workshop that is dated 1850 on the gable end that faces the road; a cottage stands next to it, and can be seen beyond and to the left of the workshop.

“In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2, King James Version). https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-14-2/ A block of Coventry council housing on Eden Street may not be what was intended here. This block of 58 flats in 10 storeys was constructed by Wimpey for Coventry County Borough Council between 1961 & 1962. https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/eden-street Nearby is the Adam & Eve pub.

The Shree Mandhata Samaj Community Centre. Established in 1978 in a converted Primitive Methodist School. Paradise is an area of Foleshill.

This district around Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry, is marked on the OS map as 'Paradise', though I have never heard anybody locally refer to it by that name. A ten-storey block of council flats called 'Paradise House' can also be found on Eden Street.

On Eden Street. Paradise, Foleshill.

The low winter sun casts a shadow on the canal. Looking from Navigation Bridge.

Crossing the Coventry Canal in Coventry.

Abandoned electric organs and stools gather dust and fallen plaster in the showroom of Greens, which appears to have closed for good. Stoney Stanton Road and Crabmill Lane can be seen reflected in the shop window.

Next to Bridge 6: Navigation Bridge.