Ford's Hospital

Shows gate to garden.

The hospital and Cheylesmore Inn, 1930ish.

The pub was formerly called the Bell and was 3 storeys. For some reason they took the roof and the top floor off. There is a possibility that the building was a timber frame building clad with a single skin of brick. This process of cladding would often accelerate the decay of the timbers and maybe the bricks couldn't support 3 storeys.

Is anyone on here bidding on that Ford's/Cheylesmore postcard on eBay? If so, then I'll not bid it up any higher - I've been outbid once already!

Not me.

Rob, shows Ford's well but Neil's post 48 obscures it with more of the Inn!

I've been tempted by it in the past, but my buying days are over I'm afraid - so, not me neither!

Not me.

Not me neither

Not guilty.

Not me Rob, too rich for my blood

There's been a lot of interest in Coventry images and books recently. It's pushing the price up I suspect that authors are collecting a few to illustrate new books for the City of Culture? Old stuff can be copyright free and cheaper than getting a publishing license from the Herbert or Francis Frith. I'm mostly concentrating on very old books with drawings in but a few photos are useful to put the sketches into more realistic proportions.

Thanks for the feedback all of you.... I'll see if I can get it for all of us on Monday, fingers crossed!

Just saw this photo - amazing. I only remember it much later when it was restored. We used to go to a pottery shop nearby and bought a lovely Prinknash Abbey coffee set from there in the very early 70's. I always wondered if tourists who came to see the new and old cathedrals and that area ever got over to Fords.