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Kingfield Road, COVENTRY, CV6 5PQ

Taken from the junction with Marion Road. The land on the left hand side is being redeveloped for housing and has been given the twee name 'Swallowcroft' by the builder.

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.

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

This gurdwara is dated 1962 on the front but the current building is clearly much more recent than that.

Now festooned with communication transmitters is the base of a former chimney, part of the former Courtaulds textiles site. Part of the site is now the Foleshill Enterprise Park. 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 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.

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.