LesMac Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 157 Sat 20th Oct 2012 2:23pm Member: Joined Dec 2011 Total posts:252 Elsewhere on this forum someone recently mentioned Swanswell Gate. Is it a gate? I know it's a very long time ago but at school we were taught that it was a defence tower and not a gate. Les |
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Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 2 of 157 Sat 20th Oct 2012 3:33pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 I just had a look about the Swanswell Gate, cos I didn't know much, but this may help.
The Coventry Gates
I expect someone more knowledgable than me will go into more detail. ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 3 of 157 Sat 20th Oct 2012 4:23pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5604 Also see Rob's page on the HC site |
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crossh9 Warwickshire All posts by this member | 4 of 157 Mon 23rd Dec 2013 3:51pm Member: Joined Nov 2013 Total posts:10 I've traced a relative living at 4 Cook Street, 1861 which I think is next to the Hollybush Inn. I have been looking for photos of this area, the only photo I have seen is the Cook Street Gate and I would also like to know what was College Square?, no 4 was very near to this area (if I've got it correct) xx ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 5 of 157 Sun 29th Dec 2013 12:40am Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2593 That end of Cook street and Silver Street are not well covered. Nobody has come forward with photos and the only images I know of are paintings/drawings. Sydney Bunney's Coventry - impressions of a graceful city (can be bought or borrowed) has paintings of the end of Silver Street and Rood Lane looking towards 4 Cook Street. This picture by Dr Troughton looks along Silver Street and number 4 could be one of those at the end.
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deanocity3 keresley All posts by this member | 6 of 157 Sun 29th Dec 2013 10:49am Member: Joined Nov 2013 Total posts:355 Cook Street Gate is top right hand corner
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 7 of 157 Sun 29th Dec 2013 3:51pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 1889 map. The Angel is at No.1 and The Hollybush is at No.5:
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 8 of 157 Wed 1st Jan 2014 11:32pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2593 Nice aerial photos deanocity3. You can clearly see the Hollybush Inn. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 10 of 157 Thu 2nd Jan 2014 3:40pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 Much Park Street had the greatest number of pubs by a considerable margin Dreamtime.
Elsewhere in Coventry, I think the biggest concentrations of pubs occured where the most back street courts were located. |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 11 of 157 Thu 2nd Jan 2014 5:01pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Thank you Dutchman, interesting to know as it was a topic of conversation over the Christmas break. ![]() ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 157 Fri 3rd Feb 2017 6:51pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2863 Looks like part of the city wall has been uncovered whilst they dig up Cox Street car park! - Telegraph |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 13 of 157 Fri 3rd Feb 2017 11:22pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2593 It's hard to tell from the photos but by the look of it they've found the stretch to the north of the river that then turned left to head towards the Hales Street gate. Basically they're two parts of the Pool Meadow wall. They need to widen the corner to look for the tower base.
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 14 of 157 Sat 4th Feb 2017 7:17pm Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:884 On 3rd Feb 2017 6:51pm, NeilsYard said:
Looks like part of the City Wall has been uncovered whilst they dig up Cox Street car park!
Telegraph
No surprise there, there are probably foundations everywhere. A lot was dug up in the past and reburied to preserve it. When they were building the ring road they kept coming across old walls that they considered to be a hindrance. Did they find some when they dug up at the back of the Belgrade theatre as well?
I wandered up to the section that's used by Pargetters today. There's a strange paved square there with a monument on it.
There's apparently a Roman road in that area as well.
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 15 of 157 Sun 5th Feb 2017 10:00pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5604 Somebody tell the Telegraph that Whitefriars Gate was not part of the city wall ![]() |
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