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Evangelical Church building
Durbar Avenue Evangelical Church (affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) is situated in the southern area of Holbrooks, Coventry.
Image: © Peter Mackenzie
Taken: 3 Jan 2017
0.07 miles
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Signs on railway bridge where Holbrook Lane and Lockhurst Lane meet
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 11 Apr 2020
0.08 miles
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Lockhurst Lane Bridge
Taken from the railway during authorised access as part of an inspection of the structure.
Image: © Richard Cooke
Taken: 12 Feb 2012
0.09 miles
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Queen Mary's Road
Looking south east.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 4 Mar 2017
0.09 miles
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Detail of railway bridge, Holbrook Lane, Coventry
A detail of the concrete bridge, built in 1931, that carries the road over the Coventry-Nuneaton railway, showing the steps that lead from the service road by Holbrook Lane onto the bridge itself, which joins Holbrook Lane to the north and Lockhurst Lane to the south. The railway, which opened in 1851, had previously crossed the road at a level crossing. See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p29.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 2 Sep 2021
0.09 miles
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Holbrook Lane (B4118)
Looking south east.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 4 Mar 2017
0.09 miles
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Steps to North Pier of Lockhurst Lane Bridge
Taken from the railway during authorised access as part of an inspection of the structure.
Image: © Richard Cooke
Taken: 12 Feb 2012
0.10 miles
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Railway Bridge, Holbrook Lane-Lockhurst Lane, Foleshill, Coventry
This concrete bridge that carries the road over the Coventry-Nuneaton railway opened in 1931. The railway, which opened in 1851, had previously crossed the road at a level crossing. See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p29.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 2 Sep 2021
0.10 miles
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Former Railway Hotel, Boston Place, Foleshill
The former Railway Hotel in Foleshill, Coventry, is seen here from the nearby road bridge that links Lockhurst Lane and Holbrook Lane and carries them over the Coventry-Nuneaton railway.
Built to serve Foleshill station, it must have lost its purpose with the station's closure in 1965, but it found a new lease of life in the 1970s as a venue for the Indian and Caribbean communities. Annette Hay recalls in the Coventry Telegraph how, "In the 1970s one half [The Railway Pub] was owned by an Indian man, called Mr Nijjar but known as Deete, and the other half was used by the West Indians, and in the middle floor was a massive dance floor. In the West Indian side they'd be playing snooker and cards. I learnt to play snooker there, sometimes people would bring in their families, for many years many of the West Indian community would use that facility." This reflects, says Hay, a time when racism was much more explicit in Coventry and the club offered a safe space. The West Indian, now Caribbean, club moved in 1983 to premises in Spon Street (Hay is quoted here https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/extraordinary-history-coventrys-west-indian-19050407 ).
When photographed in 2021 the building was disused.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 2 Sep 2021
0.11 miles
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Street art on Holbrook Lane, Coventry
Street art signed by Lauren and enlivening a wall by an unnamed service road running off Holbrook Lane by the railway bridge.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 2 Sep 2021
0.11 miles