Sadly, many of Hillfields’ landmark buildings had already been destroyed by then.
Archive for the ‘Photo Archive’ Category
Primrose Hill Street circa 1967…
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023Market Way 4th March 1966
Thursday, June 30th, 2022Showing the phone boxes and newagents kiosk. I think the red box in the foreground was a postage stamp dispenser?
View from Earl Street looking towards Jordan Well & Gosford Street
Thursday, January 6th, 2022The Lady Godiva pub opened on 26th February 1964 and the former Morris Engine Works caught fire in July of that year so this picture must have been taken between those dates.
Whitefriars Street circa 1962
Sunday, October 10th, 2021…looking towards London Road. The boiler house of Gulson Road hospital is on the left and Whitefriars Abbey in the centre. In the foreground is Victor Mancini’s café. He also had a fleet of ice-cream vans and a stall in the market. On the corner in the distance – just beyond the Hope & Anchor – is an old-fashioned tea shop which was very popular with the Irish navvies who built most of post-war Coventry.
Victoria Street in the 1960s
Tuesday, September 21st, 2021Fox & Vivian awaiting demolition in 1971…
Wednesday, August 25th, 2021I was too young to drink there but the café two doors down from it was one of my favourite haunts in the 1960s. I still associate it with drinking Coke, playing pinball and listening to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch on the jukebox.
Corner of Gosford Street and Cox Street 1965
Wednesday, August 25th, 2021Demolition has already started on the old shops.
Jordan Well in 1963…
Monday, August 23rd, 2021…looking towards Gosford Street. All of the ancient buildings in the middle of the picture were demolished between 1963 and 1965 to make way for an extension to the College of Art.