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This is the Coventry City North Delivery Office, one of two Royal Mail delivery offices in the city; the south office in is in Willenhall. They replaced the central sorting office in Bishop Street in 2010 (though much of the sorting work was moved to Northampton https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-11803625 )

The canal runs past the Godiva Trading Estate. 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 temple is pressed hard against the roaring A444 Jimmy Hill Way, from the pavement of which this photo was taken. The Blue Ribbon Roundabout is behind the photographer.

The Kurdistan Tandoori Naan takeaway on Foleshill Road has, on its side wall, a ghost sign for Spratt's Dog Food, the Spratt's name forming its distinctive terrier shape. Wikipedia tells us that Spratt's was founded in London around 1860 by the American James Spratt, and that the company pioneered hoarding or billboard advertisements in Britain and was one of the most heavily advertised brands in the early 20th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratt's .

The sign outside advertises a social supermarket which opened in the centre in 2020, selling donated food at a very low price to members on low incomes. https://www.coventry.ac.uk/news/2020/social-supermarket/ 'Everybody needs beauty as well as bread' is a quotation from the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-3-may-june/editor/everybody-needs-beauty (cf. 'bread for all, and roses too' from the US women's suffrage campaigner Helen Todd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Roses )

This is a pair of semi-detached houses with protruding shop fronts at 799 & 801 Foleshill Road, seen from the rear. This area of Foleshill was known as Parting of the Heaths and possessed a number of three-storey weavers' houses with the tall 'top shops' that housed the high Jacquard looms. A postcard from 1906 shows groups of these houses facing onto Foleshill Road and is reproduced on p47 of David Fry & Albert Smith's The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill (Simanda Press, 2018). These two much-altered houses are the only survivors.