| Mick Strong Coventry All posts by this member | 91 of 94 Tue 22nd Dec 2020 11:42am Member: Joined Oct 2020 Total posts:371 On 21st Dec 2020 9:18pm, Rob Orland said:
For anyone interested in how the Stoke and Binley areas looked well over a century ago ("mostly fields" is the quick answer!), I have recently purchased a First Edition 1887 Ordnance Survey map, and it is now scanned and online for all to view.
Liked the little notes of "liable to flood" along the river!!Mick Strong |
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| Robthu | 92 of 94 Tue 22nd Dec 2020 3:01pm |
| Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 93 of 94 Wed 23rd Dec 2020 11:23am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3785 All the way along the Sherbourne valley it has always flooded, the Victorian books are full of it. We could easily have made it a Venice or Amsterdam canal district from Spon End to Hillfields, and to me that was the intention in the 1920, but for some reason it got blocked.
Why did they build the hospital (Stoney Stanton Road) on such damp ground? And again, Walsgrave on damp ground? |
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| Heathite Coventry All posts by this member | 94 of 94 Tue 5th Jan 2021 4:05pm Member: Joined Aug 2012 Total posts:723 Hi all, here's a map of Coventry from the 1911 directory.
Not all directories include a map, they probably get ripped out and used on their own.
I think the map shows tram routes too. 
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