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Foleshill Road, COVENTRY, CV6 6EP

In his novel Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino tells of a city made of two halves, one of everyday working life, the other a fairground. After six months, the temporary half-city is taken down and moved to a new location. Workmen dismantle banks, factories and schools, load them onto lorries and leave the half-city of fairground rides behind. So it is with Coventry: factories and industrial installations close, leaving their sports and social clubs behind as memorials: Alvis, Standard Triumph and, on Foleshill Road, the gasworks. The history of the gasworks can be read about here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/8825

This is a row of nine houses which look of late 19th century date. Very unusually for this area, they are built of hard brown sandstone, which suggests Bradford and the surrounding area of Yorkshire, rather than Coventry. The Ramgarhia gurdwara, built from the 1960s onwards, can be seen beyond them.

The Ramgarhia Gurdwara is a Sikh temple (gurdwara) on a prominent site at 1103 Foleshill Road, further out of town than most other Coventry gurdwaras. Its website is here http://ramgarhiagurdwara.com/ , but has nothing to say about its history. It was founded in 1965, according to the Victoria County History of Warwickshire, Vol 8, pp396-397 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp396-397 . A brief TV news clip of the opening of the new building in 1969 can be seen here https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-07111969-opening-sikh-temple-coventry . The new structure shown in the news report is attached to a row of terraced houses, which have since been replaced as the gurdwara has been extended.

Travel Coventry 2983, an MCW Metrobus Mk2A, arrives in the bus turning area on route 36 from Keresley Village via Little Heath and Coventry city centre. The 36 was normally operated with low floor buses at this time, so the prospective passenger in the wheelchair will have been justifiably disappointed to be unable to board this bus.

Travel Coventry 4219, a Dennis Trident/Alexander ALX400, lays over in the bus turning area before working a 36 to Keresley Village via Little Heath and Coventry city centre.

Carrying the B4113 Longford Road across the Coventry Canal.

A barge heads along the canal.

Travel Coventry 4207, a Dennis Trident/Alexander ALX400, pulls away from the bus turning area at the beginning of its journey on route 4 to Walsgrave Hospital via Holbrooks, Coventry city centre, and Stoke Aldermoor.

Passing under bridge 8 near the Arena Shopping Centre. The vessel is a diesel powered boat and was taking part in a Steamboat Association Rally on the Coventry Canal. it was heading for Hawkesbury junction.