Little Park Street

Amazing to see, Manor. Even today you can say that that would have been a massive shock in difference from what was there before.

I only moved to that area just after the work was completed so never knew what it was like before. Ringway St John was opened at the same time. Everything in that area was new and shiney. It's all very different now to how it was when those photos were taken.

Those buildings were already condemned and awaiting demolition when that picture was taken in 1937. In the event I think the Luftwaffe saved the council the trouble. These are the same buildings viewed from Cow Lane looking towards Little Park Street:

Great photo again Dutchman It's probably because I've only ever been used to the wide expanse of todays LPS but images like those ones make it appear like a small 'lane'.

NeilsYard, yes great photo's Dutchman, of the old Coventry, a lot of tiny cobbled streets mostly in disrepair, locked and bolted, boarded up, you can see why the fire took such a hold so quickly, it was the Coventry I knew, today I would be lost in those same streets.

Posted previously on another thread:

Old houses c.1550 Link to www.alamy.com

Hadn't realised Kirby House had declined so much in the 60's! I'm actually amazed it survived looking at the condition it was in.

Great image, Neil - my photo from last year

Most of Kirby House didn't survive. AFAIK, only the front fa

Thanks to Andy McGeechan - "Built in 1725 on the site of a Jacobean house, it's notable cantilevered staircase was incorporated into this fine Georgian town house. Named "Kirby House" in 1874 after being purchased by local solicitor Thomas H Kirby it had fallen on hard times by the 20th century. Listed Grade II in 1955. The initial restoration estimate in 1959 was £10.000, but only £6000 could be raised, but what with procrastination (and a post war rebuilding boom ) CCC tried unsuccessfully to have it de-listed to broaden the options but the cost had reached £77.800 by 1971. The real heroes of this piece are the builders WA Blackburn who in 1980 bought it off the financially struggling developers (who'd bought it off CCC) and with Architects Crouch Butler & Savage, and historic consultants RS Melville they salvaged all they could and reproduced everything else using extensive photos taken during 1969. Sold to sun Life in 1982 it became Varley Hibbs & Co in 1987 and subsequently the Citizens Advice Bureau in 2013. "

I think it looks very imposing from the street view and a great place to work in. I do wonder what it looks like inside these days. Thanks Neil.

Dreamtime - bits of it look like modern offices and bits look like an old Georgian house. If you didn't know it had had major work done to it, you could be fooled into thinking it was just a modernised original building.

Thanks Helen, sort of knocks the shine off it doesn't it.