Queen Victoria Road (inc Drill Hall)

Yes it was. I had my medical upstairs in what is now Cheylesmore Job Centre.

Yes I'm pretty sure that's the Warwickshire Regiment sign chopped off on the left.

"Warwickshire Yeomanry", later merged with The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars to form "The Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry".

Neil, this is the before picture of your picture. They are from "Coventry old & new" by E B Newbold 1974. Fascinating as the "new" pictures are over 40 years old.

Another photo showing that row again - courtesy of David Gilbert on the Coventry Old and New FB Group - taken during the motoring centenary celebrations '85/'86

We do not appear to have a dedicated Croft Road thread but this image was taken from Queen Victoria Road so I've placed here. Very rare shot from this era of the corner where today (believe it or not!) stands Ikea. That's the same row standing that can be seen in my previous post.

The corner building shown, Restaurant Roma, was in 1950 a derelict house, not certain if it had been bombed. I can remember in the mid 50's it was rebuilt as a motorcycle showroom and workshop. At the rear of the premises under the advertising hoarding is a little lane that ran down to a bridge that crossed the Sherbourne river. Think there may have been a warehouse there and parking, it was used by a car delivery company to deliver new vehicles on trade plates to dealers. I can remember quite a few Jaguars passing through.

Can anyone out there remember the barbershop on Queen Victoria Road? It was in a run of terraced houses on a small off-shoot of QV Rd, starting opposite what was the C&A (then Argos, now New Look) building, and ending up joining Spon Street/Fleet Street. This off-shoot disappeared when the area was flattened to make way for the Co-op development in the 1980s, before Ikea came along! Can anyone remember the barbershop, maybe its name?? I can remember the shop front being painted bright, pillar-box red.

Hi Oddsock. There is an article in 1967 Coventry Telegraph about Frank Page's barbers shop in Queen Victoria Road about what happened to the monster pike that used to be in the window. Would this be the one.

Hi Anne. It could be? I never went in the place myself, and I don't recall a large fish in the window but that's not to say there wasn't one? Have you a date for the Coventry Telegraph issue, and possibly a page number, so I can follow this up on my next visit to The Herbert using their microfilms? Thanks for your reply.

The article is in the CET dated Mon 11 Sep 1967, pages 12 and 32, available online.

An unusual view taken from what I presume is Queen Victoria Road looking over to Spon St - not sure what all the surrounding buildings were (especially the one on the very right?) Mid-60's? I like that Renault Dauphine though!

The road straight opposite going towards the poplars, has to be lower Holyhead Road. The building to the left with the white gables is or was the 'Rising Sun', don't know what it is called now despite passing it quite often.

Quite right, Harrier. Last time I looked, The Rising Sun was Arabella shisha lounge

Kaga, can I test your wartime postwar memories. I used to be taken to a bakers (and perhaps workmans cafe) in Queen Victoria Road just postwar, by my father. It was run by an aunt and her husband whose name was Dickie Meddows. My memory is very patchy but I seem to remember it being almost opposite an exit from the Barracks market. Do you know of it and can you confirm my memory?