Foleshill (inc. Foleshill Road)

Heathite, hello, do you have any more information on the football team, what they were called and any names? Midland Red, of course, they had to be, or they would have been in Flanders or such.

Hi, and no, sorry, not my generation. I hate football anyway. I thought some of the elderly members would appreciate them.

Unfortunately Kaga the online newspapers for Coventry only have reports for the Foleshill Vics in 1914. There is also a cricket team with the same name and Vic appears to be short for Victorians. The report for 9/11/1914 says they won five-nil against the "Friends adult school", the scorers were Hartlett 2, Meisenheimer 2 and Tansley 1. 30/11/1914 has them playing against Craven Athletic, the team was Hart, Allen, Jackson, E Lines, Edwards, Barras, Hartlett, Parker, Homer, Hogan and Jiles.

Thank you both for your input, can't imagine where you get all this info from but it is so welcome.

Kaga, the info is from my second favourite web site, The British Newspaper Archive. It is a subscription site but very addictive.

A couple more Foleshill football teams: Courtaulds JFC 1937 Fred Bagley, my dad, standing second row far right Don't know who these are but looks a bit later

Hi All I am after as much information as possible relating to Foleshill Road where Volmax & Hogarth Stores Limited, up to and including the Halfords building were located, for example pictures (especially aerial pictures), ownership details, whether anyone knows if the then owners of those businesses are still around and contactable. Any information you can provide swiftly would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance. LB

Can I upset the apple cart. How about writing your name with the toe of your shoe in the black sand outside TSB or the dentist opposite that never opened his window because of the dirt guiding an iron hoop from the Wolfe to Beresford trying to make straight train lines collecting black sand from the kerb at Beresford to make metal castings The things in my mind as a kid about Foleshill. I'm off

Hi Kaga, You could still walk the same streets today but the TSB on the corner of Broad Street has long gone and is now a kitchen shop. I don't think you would be too popular with your iron hoop though because you would almost certainly either hit a parked car or get run over! Although the buildings and streets are much as you remember, there are probably none in their original use, even the General Wolfe is a restaurant. All of the old factories and foundries have gone to be replaced by either housing or light industry. I am sure the current Foleshill residents would make you welcome so long as you leave your iron hoop at home. Regards. Roger

Not local. Hi, I thought the TSB was on the corner of Station St. I remember when I was about ten years old, mum was shopping, I was on my roller skates, I came down Station St at full bat, turned by the TSB and landed in a heap on the platform of the bus going into town, the conductor looked to see if I was hurt, let me off. Many years later I saw Frank Spencer do a similar act that reminded me of my foolish escapade. Where we rolled the hoops, the greengrocer used to put out tables, with boxes of veg or fruit, on clean days. Suppose all that's gone then.

Kaga - During the 1970's I am sure that TSB was on the corner of Foleshill Rd and Broad Street. At that time lots of the shops and businesses would have been more or less how you remembered them with the greengrocer just up from the Wolfe next to the passage which led down to the Angel. The bus stop is still there just around the corner from Station St but you would have a nasty fall if you roller skated into a modern bus with the doors closed. There is still a big greengrocers in Foleshill Rd just next to the old Co-op building. They put their fruit and vegetables outside. You would not be lost if you stood outside the Wolfe and looked up and down. It is still basically the same old shops but now they have new occupants who sell all manner of different things. Just the same mixture that you remember from your childhood and I remember from the 70's when it was on my route to work.

Hi Kaga, I've been working in Foleshill for 30 years and the TSB was at the end of Broad Street, closed when they merged with Lloyds. The bank on the corner of station street was Midland Bank / HSBC / now closed. There is a planning application in for a change of use to licenced betting office. I was walking past today and the sun was catching what is left of the Midland Griffin logo. The boxes of fruit and veg are still there. Regards, Peter.

Kaga - I have just looked on Google maps and can see that the fruit and veg shop between the Angel entry and Blackwell Rd is still trading and the boxes of fruit are outside that one as well. I'm not clever enough to put a link in.

Thank you one and all for your replies, the bank name may have got lost in time to me but it was a square brick building, bang on the corner of Station St, it had a large open space in front of it. Farther down near to Edgewick there was a small park with stunted trees and a large house in the middle, there were days when it was almost hidden in the dust of Sterling Metals rolling across the road, and with Fozzel castings at the Stoney Stanton Road end of Broad Street it was quite a dust bowl but I suppose Foleshill doesn't want to be reminded of those days, but they were good old days when we had Sunday School treats and donkey carts festooned in flowers and May blossom.

That would be "Edgwick Park" - if you Google it, it seems to have a poor reputation recently PS There seem to alternative spellings in the area - it's Edgwick Park but Edgewick Community Primary School