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Pridmore Road, COVENTRY, CV6 5PE

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark levelled at 94.113m above Newlyn Datum

There is an OS benchmark Image on the side of the left hand house

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark levelled at 95.921m above Newlyn Datum

These council houses were the first to be built in Coventry, in 1907. More followed soon after on neighbouring streets laid out by Narrow Lane (today Kingfield Road), and by 1912 over two hundred houses had been built by the city in this area. They were much needed at a time when the rapid industrial expansion of Coventry had led to an influx of workers and their families and housing was scarce. See David Fry & Albert Smith, The Coventry we have Lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p27. At the end of the 20th century the city's remaining housing stock was sold to a housing association. Many of the homes are now privately owned, but the uniform appearance of these suggests that they are still social housing. They are brick-built but have been covered with insulating cladding some time early in the 21st century, like these flats in Willenhall Image

There is an OS benchmark Image on the end of the brick wall which is a boundary wall of the pub

The Stag & Pheasant opened in 1830 and is a rare survivor of old Lockhurst Lane. Most of its neighbours were demolished in the course of the 20th century to make way for the Courtaulds textile works as it gradually expanded. See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p26, which prints two photos of Lockhurst Lane in 1907 including the pub. An English flag is displayed in the porch; inside are hung both English and Indian flags, and the lounge is given over to a simple Indian restaurant.

These are some of the earliest council houses in Coventry, built by the city some time between 1907 and 1912. The very first row, on Pridmore Road, can be seen at the end of the street, on the right hand side of the photo, and also on this Geograph Image], which provides more information.

The Lockhurst Lane 'bridge of sighs' connects two parts of Courtaulds textile works, which expanded along Lockhurst Lane in the years after 1918. The factory, which was known for making rayon and similar artificial fibres, closed in the 1990s and the surviving buildings have been put to a variety of commercial uses, with some converted to housing.

Looking from Pridmore Road.

The base of a former chimney in the extensive Courtaulds textiles site, with part of Foleshill Enterprise Park, which now occupies part of the site, in the foreground.