Weighbridge Office The Weighbridge Office was specially constructed to house the weighbridge measuring equipment and as an office for collecting the tolls due to the company. It dates from the first half of the 19th century. Originally there were two weighbridges, one on either side, byt only one survives.

Weighbridge Office - Coventry Canal Basin - Leicester Row, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Swanswell Gate Completed circa 1440 as part of the fortified town wall, remains of which stand in the adjoining gardens. Originally named Priory Gate it gave access to the Prior's lands outside the wall. Including Swanswell Fishpool. The archways were blocked, windows inserted and the roof raised when it was converted into a house and gardens were presented to the city and wall remains are now Scheduled Ancient Monuments.

Swanswell Gate - Hales Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Blue Coat School. Opened as a charity school in 1714 rebuilt on the same site 1856-7 with Gothic Architecture in the style of french chateau. The two octagonal stone towers embody bases of towers of the ruined monastic church of St Mary dating from 1043. The school closed in 1940.

Priory Gardens, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Cook Street Gate. Completed circa.1385 as part of the medieval town wall, which was demolished in 1662 by order of Charles II. Only two town gates have survived from the original twelve, this is the only functional gate. Presented to the city by Col. W. F. Wyley in 1913 and restored in 1918. The building is now a scheduled ancient monument.

Lady Herbert's Gardens, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Coventry Watch Museum Project: Watchmaking Heritage Trail 2000 - 1 Hearsall Terrace 21 Allesley Old Road, Thomas &Roland Hill Watch Manufacturers

21 Allesley Old Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

Near this site stood The Rocket pub used by many artists who recorded at Horizon Studios that stood across the road from here Including: The Specials & The Selecter

Coventry Station, Warwick Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

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The Specials
(1977-present) band

The Selecter
(1979-present) band

The Rocket
(1964-2015) public house

The Old Grammar School (St John's Hospital). Former chapel circa 1340 of the Hospital of St John the Baptist founded in the 12th century. After dissolution of the monastries it was converted circa 1550 into a Free Grammar School (King Henry VIII School). The school moved to its present site in Warwick Road in 1885. Sir William Dugdale historian was a pupil here in 1615-1620. The building is now a scheduled ancient monument.

Cnr Hales St and Bishop St, Coventry, United Kingdom

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The Old Grammar School (St John's Hospital)
(1340-1885) grammar school

Sir William Dugdale
(1605-1686) historian

Opposite this marker stood the Daimler car factory which made the first British production motor car in 1897. The surviving building is the Powerhouse.

Coventry Canal, Coventry, United Kingdom

Coventry University (The Lanch) Jerry Dammers and Horace Panter of The Specials and Pauline Black of The Selecter all attended this University. The song 'Rat Race' was conceived in this building and the promotional video was subsequently filmed in the Main Hall in 1980.

Coventry University (The Lanch), Coventry, United Kingdom

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Jerry Dammers
(1955-present) band member

Horace Panter
(1953-present) band member

Pauline Black
(1953-present) band member

1912 - This building is one of three branch libraries erected in this city through the munificence of Andrew Carnegie Esq LLD

Earlsdon Library, Earlsdon Avenue, Coventry, United Kingdom

Chapelfields. Where the watches ticked in long rows, the looms clacked and the bells rang, Home sweet Home 1946.

Craven Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

This building previously 142-3 on the north side of Spon Street beyond the Ringway, was built about 1700. It had a rear range of two gables of which one had been rebuilt. The original staircases had gone, as also ahd most of the front wall-frame. The building illustrates the end of the timber-frame tradition in Coventry and the transition to brick. Dismantling commenced in February 1971 and re-erection was completed in March 1975 by the Coventry City Council with the aid of gifts.

16 Spon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Craven St Garden. In dedication of the family who lost their home on this site, during the bombing of the 2nd World War.

Craven Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust. Ernest Instone 1872-1932. Pioneer of the British Motor Industry and Motor Sport. General Manager & Engineer, Daimler, Coventry, City Councillor and JP. Lived here C 1907-1920. The Coventry Society 2022.

The Firs, Coventry, United Kingdom

Earlsdon's first Anglican church built 1913 Parish church of St. Barbara 1922-1931

4 Palmerston Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

Two weavers cottages built for silk weavers c1854

91 Berkeley Road South, Coventry, United Kingdom

Site of Rex Motorcycle factory 1898-1923 Alpha Engineering 1948-1987

102 Osborne Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

Earlsdon's first factory opened as a nail foundry 1885

12 Moor Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

Coventry Watch Museum Project: Watchmaking Heritage Trail 2000 - Cambrian House 164 Allesley Old Road W.H. Adams & Son Watch Manufacturer 1889 -1953

164 Allesley Old Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

Coventry Watch Museum Project: Watchmaking Heritage Trail 2000 - 1 Oxford Terrace 13 Allesley Old Road Factory of Philip Cohen Watch Manufacturer

13 Allesley Old Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

Earlsdon's first shop opened by Samuel Ward for the sale of provisions 1860

59 Moor Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Harrington's Tubular Bell Foundry 1900 - 1920 Engineering Works 1920 - 1962

31 Clarendon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

One of Earlsdon's earliest houses built 1852 for Henry Bates (Dyer)

52 Earlsdon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Site of Earlsdon's first Co-Op store opened 1896

8 Earlsdon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

The City Arms opened on this site by Benjamin Bird 1853

1 Earlsdon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Site of weaving shed 1854 - 1865; Methodist Chapel 1872 - 1884; First Day School 1882 - 1890

102 Berkeley Road South, Coventry, United Kingdom

The Earlsdon Coffee Tavern 1899 Working Men's Club 1910-1931 Albany Social Club 1931

10 Earlsdon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Sir Frederick Gibberd Architect lived here 1921 - 1932 (Clarendon House and Westwood House)

15 Clarendon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Sir Frederick Gibberd RA
(1908-1984) architect

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel: 1884 - 1923 Sunday School: 1884-1960 Criterion Theatre: 1960

Criterion Theatre, Berkeley Road South, Coventry, United Kingdom

Earlsdon's second cinema opened as the "Broadway" 1922 closed as the "Astoria" 1959

69 Albany Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Site of farmhouse built by John Moore 1766-1846. Owner of 6 fields developed as the Earlsdon estate 1852

60 Moor Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Watchmaker's Cottage 1855 Earlsdon Cottage Inn c1865

24 Warwick Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

Earlsdon House with workshops built by John Flinn watch manufacturer 1862

68 Earlsdon Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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50 years of listening 1964-2014 Coventy & District Samaritans

Warwick Street, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Site of Tiffany's Nightclub. 2-Tone bands The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, Madness, The Swinging Cats and The Bodysnatchers all played at this once popular venue

Tiffany's Nightclub (Central Library), Coventry, United Kingdom

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The Specials
(1977-present) band

The Selecter
(1979-present) band

The Beat
(1978-1983) band

Madness
(1976-present) band

The Swinging Cats
(1979-1980) band

The Bodysnatchers
(1979-1981) band

Virgin Records. Pete Waterman OBE the first Specials manager ran the Soul Hole record shop on the first floor of this building. John 'Brad' Bradbury of The Specials worked here, as did The Automatics vocalist Tom Strickland

Virgin Records/Soul Hole, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Pete Waterman OBE
(1947-present) Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

John Bradbury
(1953-2015) band member

Tom Strickland

Holy Tinity Church. Constructed during the 13th and 15th Centuries on the site of a norman building as the parish church for the priors half of Coventry. The Spire. Height 237 feet (72 metres) was rebuilt in 1667 after the original was blown down. Extensive restoration and a new west front were completed in 1849 by R. C. Hussey. The interior was restored in 1855 by Gilbert Scott.

Priory Row, Coventry, United Kingdom

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Sir George Gilbert Scott
(1811-1878) architect

Stoke Green Wall. This wall was reconstructed by Coventry City Council Task Force as part of the Manpower Services Commission Community Programme. Opened by Mrs A. Wilson on 2nd December 1984 on behalf of the Stoke Park Residents Group.

Binley Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

Coventry Watch Museum Project: Watchmaking Heritage Trail 2000 This is the only surviving building of the world famous clock & watch manufacturer H. Williamson Ltd formerly Charles H Errington

11 Lower Holyhead Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

Coventry Watch Museum Project: Watchmaking Heritage Trail 2000 - 1 Hearsall Lane , Smith & Sons Balance Works c1846

1 Hearsall Lane, Coventry, United Kingdom