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Dame Agnes Grove, Coventry
Looking south west.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 4 Mar 2017
0.04 miles
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Willow tree, tower blocks and garages, Bell Green, Coventry
Framed by a willow tree, three four-storey housing blocks can be seen, part of a row of nine that stretch the length of Purcell Road in a sinuous double curve. The River Sowe flows among the trees to the left behind the garages. The photo was taken from Henley Road.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 27 Jul 2021
0.06 miles
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Bell Green
This is quite a large urban park set amidst typical suburban housing.
Image: © Malcolm Neal
Taken: 29 Sep 2017
0.06 miles
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Path beside Henley Road
Looking north west.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 4 Mar 2017
0.08 miles
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A dip in the Lido, Bell Green
The German discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl are well known in Britain and Ireland. Aldi built a store in Bell Green, Coventry, on Roseberry Avenue at the junction with Henley Road. It closed in 2019. Step in Ari Mustafa, a local businessman who runs a chain of Euro Supermarket stores in the city. He turned the empty building into a 'Lido' store, clearly a 'knock-off' homage to Lidl. "The food we will sell will be English, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Bulgarian," he told Coventry Live in 2021; "Bell Green is an area where there is a good mix of people, and this will be a supermarket that reflects that..." (see the Coventry Telegraph site https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/plans-unveiled-empty-aldi-supermarket-20766081 ) . Polish food predominates, with a large range of charcuterie (cooked meat, especially smoked sausage) at the deli counter.
Lido is an Italian term for a beach, associated especially with the Lido di Venezia beach which surrounds the lagoon in which Venice stands. In Britain 'lido' became the name of a type of outdoor public swimming pool; see Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido .
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 10 Aug 2022
0.14 miles
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Henley College
Further Education College on the North side of Coventry.
Image: © Kevin Croucher
Taken: 13 Jun 2005
0.16 miles
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Tower Blocks, Purcell Road, Courthouse Green
Three four-storey blocks of an S-curved row of nine can be seen here; for a view from the other end of the row see
Image The blocks overlook the River Sowe and its meadows. Purcell Road is named after the English composer Henry Purcell of the baroque era; it adjoins other musical streets named after Elgar, Sullivan and Parry.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 8 Oct 2022
0.16 miles
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Access to car parks, Riley Square, Bell Green, north Coventry
A turning off Roseberry Avenue. On the right is the corner of Samuel Hayward House flats, with the corner of Dewis House, a multistorey block of flats, centre.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 2 Oct 2016
0.19 miles
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View under Samuel Hayward House of Riley Square and Alice Arnold House
This is a view underneath Samuel Hayward House
Image], where it straddles the south-eastern entrance to Riley Square on pilotis or pillars. In the far distance, across the shopping precinct, can be seen a similar block of council flats over shops, Alice Arnold House. It is named after the first woman to become mayor of Coventry, in 1937. Born into poverty in the city workhouse, Arnold worked in factories from the age of 11, became a trade union organiser, then an independent Labour councillor on the city council; see Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arnold_(mayor) .
To the left, behind the parked cars, is the base of the 17-storey housing block Dewis House. To the right is a supermarket building, now occupied by Farmfoods, with a Polish food shop beyond. It was built by Sainsburys in 1969 and occupied by them for twenty years; see the Sainsburys Archive site, which includes historic photos of Riley Square https://sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/branch/ref/p1127-coventry-bell-green-riley-square-1969-1989-sainsburys-branch/view_as/list . For more on Riley Square see
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Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 25 Mar 2023
0.19 miles
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1887 Bell Green mural, Riley Square
This is a closer view of the left-hand panel in the mural depicted here
Image It gives a rather romanticised view of late Victorian Bell Green, symbolised by the inset depicting a bell with the inscription 'God Save the King'. This may be one of the bells installed in the reign of James I in the parish church of Foleshill, St Laurence (spelt here 'Lawrence'), which can be seen at the top left. There is no pool between the church and Bell Green today; perhaps the blue depicts Wyken Pool, a flash created by mining subsidence on the northern side of Foleshill.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 26 Dec 2022
0.19 miles