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Kingfield Road, COVENTRY, CV6 5PS

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.

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

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 two structures are the only obvious survivors of Lockhurst Lane buildings earlier than the late 19th century, and have been much extended with commercial frontages. Lockhurst Lane formed part of the parish of Foleshill and was a centre of the ribbon-weaving industry; one of the earliest co-operative societies was founded here in 1832. https://heartofengland.coop/society/roots/

This is an odd corner of Foleshill viewed through a fence from Livingstone Road. In the centre of the photo beyond the rather overgrown plot is what looks like a vernacular cottage with a crude modern extension and, behind it, some industrial buildings including a long factory building of brick.

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

The Faizan-e-Islam mosque occupies the premises of the former Foleshill Liberal Club, which opened in 1891. https://forebears.io/england/warwickshire/foleshill#sid17390 At this time the Liberals were stronger than the Conservatives in Coventry, but they declined in the 1920s with the rise of the Labour Party. https://liberalhistory.org.uk/resources/coventry-history-centre/ The club closed in 2010. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/foleshill-liberal-club-goes-liquidation-3056714

Cul-de-sac off Lockhurst Lane.