EPW061097 ENGLAND (1939). Heath Crescent, the Coventry Ordnance Works and environs, Coventry, from the east, 1939

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Title [EPW061097] Heath Crescent, the Coventry Ordnance Works and environs, Coventry, from the east, 1939
Reference EPW061097
Date 30-May-1939
Link
Place name COVENTRY
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 434806, 280368
Longitude / Latitude -1.4881449883947, 52.419818885951
National Grid Reference SP348804

Pins

Approx position of a 2ndWW HAA Gun Battery, Exhall,(GDA Coventry) e12254.

redmist
Saturday 29th of October 2022 10:02:02 PM
Barras House hotel public house ( also known as the bolshie )

Themero
Sunday 4th of October 2020 11:01:08 PM
Bretts Stamping works.

PeteW
Tuesday 10th of September 2019 04:25:07 PM

PeteW
Tuesday 10th of September 2019 04:24:16 PM
Burlington Road.

PeteW
Tuesday 10th of September 2019 04:23:47 PM
Fredrick Birds School Infants,Juniors and Seniors.

PeteW
Tuesday 10th of September 2019 04:23:06 PM
Co-op Dairy and Laundry.

PeteW
Tuesday 10th of September 2019 04:21:28 PM
Railway link to the Ordnance Factory?

John W
Sunday 17th of July 2016 08:58:15 PM
Coventry Canal

John W
Sunday 17th of July 2016 08:57:02 PM

John W
Sunday 17th of July 2016 08:56:04 PM

Bob Curtis
Saturday 2nd of April 2016 12:56:07 PM

Bob Curtis
Saturday 2nd of April 2016 12:55:27 PM
93, Cromwell Street

Bob Curtis
Saturday 2nd of April 2016 12:54:34 PM
49, Cromwell Street

Bob Curtis
Saturday 2nd of April 2016 12:53:59 PM
The ordnance works. By 1939 the ordnance works had been purchased from the English Electric Co. Ltd by the Admiralty and in 1939 became the Royal Naval Stores Depot. The depot was closed in 1967. (Source: Industrial Locomotives of West Midlands Handbook. Industrial Railway Society.)

JG
Tuesday 17th of June 2014 10:22:01 AM
Red Lane primary school

john
Thursday 1st of May 2014 08:45:11 PM

john
Thursday 1st of May 2014 08:37:32 PM
Hearsall Common

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:55:44 PM
Bablake School

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:54:48 PM
Christchurch - only the spire remains as Coventry's 'Third Spire'.

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:54:08 PM
Coventry Cathedral - St Michaels

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:52:37 PM
Holy Trinity church

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:51:54 PM
Swanswell Pool

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:51:18 PM
Owen Owen department store - lost in the blitz

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:50:13 PM
Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:48:23 PM
The Hippodrome - Coventry Theatre

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:47:00 PM
New Buildings Trinity St

Coventry kid
Sunday 20th of April 2014 05:45:55 PM
Leicester Causeway alongside Coventry Canal

Derrickarthur
Tuesday 18th of March 2014 10:11:27 PM
Stoke Heath Primary School.

katcov
Sunday 1st of December 2013 08:37:19 PM

User Comment Contributions

Because of the occupation of the Ordnance Works by the Admiralty from 1938 this area suffered badly from the bombing

Bob Curtis
Monday 4th of April 2016 11:03:57 AM