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This is the latest of our books, published in December 2017. It focuses on the largest and most diverse of Coventry’s suburbs and features almost 200 illustration, most of which have not been published before.
CONTENTS
1. Lower Foleshill Road: Bishop’s Gate Green
2. Middle Foleshill Road: Great Heath and Edgwick
3. Upper Foleshill Road: Parting of the Heaths and Little Heath
4. Longford and Woodshires Green
5. Hawkesbury and Alderman’s Green
6. ‘Old Foleshill’ and Bell Green
7. Lower Stoney Stanton Road
8. Upper Stoney Stanton Road: Paradise and Courthouse Green
Readers Aids: Doing Your Own Research + Index
INDEX TO FORGOTTEN FOLESHILL
The index focuses upon people and places. Where there is an appropriate illustration the page number will appear in bold.
Places
Adam & Eve Inn 93
Albert Fearn Gardens 49
Alderman’s Green Hope Industrial Co-operative Society 72
Alderman’s Green Road (Lane) 72, 73, 74
Alfred Herbert Ltd 51
Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) 12
Angel Sports Ground 43
Armfield Street 98
Arthur Street 86
Athletics 16, 43
Aubrey Seaman & Co 24
Awson Street 93, 95
Balloonist 43
Bedlam Lane 62
Bedworth Road 59
Bell Green Road 68, 93, 98
Bell Green Wesleyan F C 70
Bell Hotel 68
Bellview Way 68
Bird Grove 15, 17, 18
Bird in Hand Inn 73
Blackwell Road 43
Boyes Yard 40
Brick Kiln Lane see Broad Street
Bricklayers Arms 47
Bright Street 79, 91
British Celanese 45
Broad Heath School 36
Broad Street 23, 34, 35, 36, 44, 97
Broad Street School 35
Broad Street Wesleyan Band 35
Brooklyn 15, 16, 35
Brooklyn Road 7, 19
Byron Street 86
Carpenters Lane see Station Street West 23
Cash’s Lane 1, 7, 19, 20, 21
Challenge Cycle Co. 10, 16
Chapel Lane see Old Church Road
Cobden Street 91, 92, 94
Courtaulds 8, 18, 22, 24, 25, 26, 45, 49, 90
Courtaulds Football Team 22
Courthouse Green 63, 93, 98
Courthouse Green Estate 98
Coventry & Warwickshire Artizan’s Freehold Land Society 79, 91
Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital 79, 80-82, 83, 84
Coventry Canal 2, 6, 7, 8, 25, 57, 58, 47, 75, 76, 90, 93
Coventry Fat & Bone Co. 53
Coventry Freehold Land Society 79, 83, 86
Coventry Perseverance Co-operative Society 14
Cromwell Street 79, 91
Cross Road 44, 47, 50, 51, 97
Dovedale Cinema (also Rivoli, Ritz) 54
Dovedale Road 54
Dudley Street 66
Durbar Avenue 28, 32
Eagle Street 7, 12, 14, 15, 16,
Eden Street 93
Edgewick School 44
Edgwick Cottage 51
Edgwick Poultry Farm 51
Edmund Road 15, 17, 35
Eld Road 34, 42
Electricity Good Wharf 8
Elephant and Castle 74
Ena Road 10, 15
Five Ways Tavern 13, 14
Foleshill Brick & Tile Works 53
Foleshill C of E School 65
Foleshill Gymnastics Club 33
Foleshill Mills 38
Foleshill Park 31
Foleshill Park Building Estate 23, 41, 42
Foleshill Road 5-8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 45, 47, 48, 51, 79, 95
Foleshill Trades and Labour Institute 50
Foleshill Vics Football Team 22
Foleshill War Memorial 32
Foxford School 44
Freehold Land Society 79
Freshitt 17
Gas Works 61
General Wolf 23, 38, 39
George Eliot Road 17, 18
George Street 86
Gloucester Arms 84
Godiva Harriers 16
Golden Eagle Inn 15, 16
Grand Picture Theatre 39
Grants Factory 47
Great Heath Estate 23, 32
Grindle Road 58
Guild Road 27
Harnall Lane 7, 79
Harnall Lane East 84, 85, 87
Harnall Lane West 9, 10, 13, 14, 47, 84
Hawkesbury Hall 71
Hawkesbury Iron Church 77
Hawkesbury Lane 71, 75, 77, 78
Hawkesbury School House 78
Hazlewood 12
Heath Hotel 47
Henley Green Road 67, 69
Henley Road 70
Henrietta Street 90, 92
Highfield Road see Eld Road
Holbrooks Lane 30, 31
Hollies, The 17
Holmesdale Road 39
Honey Lane 21
Hospital Inn 80, 84
Howard Street 13, 83, 86, 87
Hurst Road (Lane) 47, 55, 56, 60
Jacker’s Road 74
Jenner Street 86
Kelly & Sons Timber Yard 49
King George’s Avenue 51
Kingfield Road 14, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 90
Kingfield Works (Cash’s) 20, 17
Lady Lane 55, 56
Lant Estate 14, 79, 86, 91
Lebanon Cottage 17
Leicester Causeway 10, 13, 18 79, 88,
Lenton’s also Lentons Lane 71, 72, 78
Lenton’s Lane Baptist Chapel 78
Lincoln Street 7, 9, 10, 11
Lockhurst Lane 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 38, 44
Lockhurst Lane Bridge 29
Lockhurst Lane Co-op 39, 57
Longford Naval Hospital 60
Longford Road 55, 58
Lyric Cinema (also Corona) 31
Lythalls Lane 45, 48, 52
Matlock Road 7, 19
Maycock Road 27
Methodist Church Alderman’s Green 72
Miners Arms 74
Nanaksar Gursikh Temple 17
Narrow Lane see Kingfield Road
National Union of Ex-Servicemen 50
Navigation Bridge 89, 90
Navigation Inn 93
Newland Road 10, 15
Northey Road 27, 33, 40
O’Brien Ltd 7, 15, 16, 70
Oban Road 59
Old Church Road 5, 45, 49, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70
Ordnance Road 90
Ordnance Works 89, 90
Paradise 79, 93, 94, 96, 97
Paradise Farm 93
Paradise Post Office 97
Paradise Primitive Methodist Chapel 87
Paradise Primitive Methodist School 87
Paradise Row see Eden Street
Park Gate Road 31
Park Street 38
Pearkes Grocers 40
Pearson Avenue 66
Peel Street 89, 91
Phoenix Way 47, 48, 62
Pridmore Road 27
Pridmore Works 47
Priestley’s Bridge 79, 88, 89, 90
Prince William Henry Inn 21, 22
Princess Street 41, 42
Proffitt Avenue 98
R White & Sons 49
Randells Butchers 87
Red Lane 79, 89, 90, 91, 93
Redesdale Cinema 17
Ribbon Weaving 6, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 34, 38, 40, 46-48, 51, 53, 56, 63, 66, 73, 84, 85, 89. 97, 98
Rock Brewery 49
Rose & Woodbine Inn 84
Rose and Crown Inn 69
Russell Street 79, 86
Shree Mandhata Samaj Community Hall 97
Smith Estate 86
Smith Street 90
Spring Road 45, 93
Springfield Brook 14, 19
Springfield Road 13, 14,
Squatters 23, 68, 71
St Elizabeth’s Church 42
St Elizabeth’s Road 41, 42
St Laurence’s Church 63, 64
St Mark’s Church 79, 80
St Paul’s Church 22, 23, 31, 34, 37, 38, 64,
St Paul’s Road 34
St Thomas Road 54, 56, 59, 64, 77
St Thomas’s Church 55
Standard Motor Works 2
Stanley Street see St Elizabeth’s Street
Stanton Street 79, 85, 86
Station Road see Sydnall Road
Station Road West see Grindle Road
Station Street East 23, 41, 35, 42, 96
Station Street West 23, 32, 40, 43
Stoney Stanton Road 5, 14, 15, 35, 41, 47, 51, 79, 80, 83-85, 86, 87-89, 91, 93, 94-97
Stoney Stanton Road Prudential Co-operative Society 72, 88
Sutton Stop 75, 76
Sydnall Road 57
Tackley 71
Thornhill Road 10, 15
Three Horseshoes Inn 51
Toll gate 7, 19
Tolldish Hall 71
Turnpikes 7, 19, 53, 55, 79, 89, 93
Tusses Bridge 71, 74, 75
Tusses Bridge see also Hawkesbury Lane
Tynemouth Close 77
Union Place 57
Vauxhall House 26, 34
Vicarage, The, Old Church Road 65
Victory Street see Princess Street
Weavers Arms 98
Webster Brick & Tile Works 89
Wedding, Foleshill 44
White & Poppe Ltd 30
Whitmore Park Road 31
Wilsons Lane 62
Windmill Road (Lane) 54
Windmill Road Cemetery 54
Woodshires Green 62
Woodshires Road 62
Workhouse, Foleshill 45, 46, 48, 60
Yews, The 59
People
Adderley, Alice & Arthur 52
Athersych, Ralph 18
Averns, John 47
Band, Charles 10
Brandish, Wal 50
Broad, John 35
Broad, Edmund 35
Cash, John 17
Cash, Joseph 17,
Chandler, William 84
Cook, Edith 43
Coomber, H G 44
Cross, Charles 47
Eagle, Thomas 15
Eliot, George 17
Ely, Alice & Abraham 51
Evans, Herbert 87
Flavell, Joseph Henry 70
Frisby, W F 28
Gaitskell, Hugh 61
Grant, William H 34, 47
Gray, J G 18
Green, Eli 30
Griffin, Mary J 87
Griffiths, T D 32
Grindall, Joseph M 67
Hambridge, James 75
Hancock, H
Hancox, Fred 11
Hazlewood, James 12
Heatley, Natalie 38
Hibbell, F J 84
Jones, J 64
Kaye, George 84
Laxton, Harry 46
Lythall, Edward 52
Malcolm, W H 61
Masser, Herbert 59
McNamara, P O 44
North, George 67
Orton, Dr John 34
Preece, Ivor 36
Pridmore, Malcolm 17
Randells, Mary 87
Rourke, Minnie 18
Rudgard, Rev W Dore 60
Spencer, Viola 43
Stafford, W J 28
Stidworthy, Edwin 10
Suggins, Harold ‘Pop’ 36
Sutton, Henry & Edith 52
Topp, William H 77
Turner, Edith Mary 44
Wagstaff, Daniel 97
Walling, Thomas 51
Walmsley, John 32
Wapples, Harold 36
Ward, Fred 67
Wareham, Band Sergeant 11