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Eden Street, COVENTRY, CV6 5HG

“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.

On Eden Street. Paradise, 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.

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.

Although very much with the city, this stretch of the canal has a rural feel. The narrow canal was built to connect the city of Coventry with the Trent & Mersey Canal, some 38 miles distant, to exploit the Warwickshire coalfields. Construction of the canal took 20 years before it was complete in 1769. The canal between the basin in Coventry and Hawkesbury junction was made a conservation area in 2012.

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/

In 1957, Coventry Canal Society was established to promote the proper use and maintenance of the canal, and to protect its interests.

In 1957, Coventry Canal Society was established to promote the proper use and maintenance of the canal, and to protect its interests.