EAW031598 ENGLAND (1950). The city centre, Coventry, 1950
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| Title | [EAW031598] The city centre, Coventry, 1950 |
| Reference | EAW031598 |
| Date | 27-July-1950 |
| Link | |
| Place name | COVENTRY |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 433466, 279030 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -1.5079840402355, 52.407872882641 |
| National Grid Reference | SP335790 |
Pins
 Broadgate House under construction |
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Thursday 5th of March 2015 03:57:36 PM |
| Swanswell Gate - part of old city wall |
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Thursday 5th of March 2015 03:55:54 PM |
| Tower of old fire station |
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Thursday 5th of March 2015 03:52:09 PM |
| Old swimming baths |
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Thursday 5th of March 2015 03:49:46 PM |
| This was a cinema - can't recall the name - now a 'club' the Kasbah. |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:49:45 PM |
| Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:48:25 PM |
| Swanswell Pool |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:47:27 PM |
| I think this is the 'Elephant' statue on top of a tall pole that marks the top end of the shopping precinct - yet to be built at this time. |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:46:51 PM |
| The Council House |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:45:13 PM |
| These look like GPO vans - the new telephone exchange was built at approximately here. |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:44:25 PM |
| Hertford St - now pedestrianised. |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:42:45 PM |
| The Coventry Evening Telegraph building - the newspaper had a new building constructed in Corporation St. |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:41:51 PM |
| Cook St Gate - one of the few remaining gates dating back to when the city had walls. This is now almost on the edge of the Ring Road that sweeps through an arc across the image just above this point. |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:40:37 PM |
| A bus in Lower Ford Street - the street ran from left to right across this image |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:38:32 PM |
| The light coloured bus is probably a Midland Red bus - that company shared Pool Meadow with Coventry Corporation buses. |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:35:59 PM |
| Pool Meadow bus station |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:34:51 PM |
| Coventry Theatre - The Hippodrome |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:34:04 PM |
| The Opera House cinema |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:33:39 PM |
| Temporary accommodation for Owen Owen - pending the reconstruction of their shop in Broadgate. |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:32:29 PM |
| The Old Grammar School |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:31:25 PM |
| The Burgess |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:30:56 PM |
| Harveys toy shop - they sold Britains soldiers and always had a window display designed to stop a young boy in his tracks! |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:30:23 PM |
| Trinity Street - nb cars parked in the centre of the road! |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:28:57 PM |
| Excavations / foundations of a pedestrian subway |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:27:59 PM |
| Timothy Whites - chemists shop. |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:27:07 PM |
| Holy Trinity church |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:25:50 PM |
| The spire of the bombed cathedral - St Michaels |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:25:27 PM |
| The basement of the bombed out Owen Owen store |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:24:15 PM |
| The Empire cinema |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:23:07 PM |
| Broadgate with the Lady Godiva statue |
Coventry kid |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:22:23 PM |
| Daimler buses - made in Coventry |
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Sunday 27th of April 2014 05:21:42 PM |