Albany Road / Butts

I think you're about right there! But I didn't want to be stood in the middle of the road dodging the cars. Here's another photo looking straight down Hope Street. The tuck shop would have been to the right where the central reservation is now, where I took the first photo from. As you point out the road is much wider now!

And here's the view from Hertford Place/Dalton Square across to the Alfred Herbert factory. This photo is taken from roughly where my aunt is standing with her bicycle!

That's still the wrong road - Butts Road This is the best I can come up from Google Street View, taken from the end of Gordon Street looking back along the original Butts - this is where I reckon the tuck shop may have been Somewhere along that line, anyway, which would run past the Summerland Tavern towards Spon End - the new Butts Road is over to the right, behind the building in the image at this point, although it does join up with the original road in front of the college

Here are a map and a couple more photos I took. I think the tuck shop was opposite the College in the terrace to the right of Hope Street by the U of Butts on the map. Your google view is further along (the trees on the left were part of the churchyard of St Thomas's). The first photo is looking back to the Technical College across the road and the second is looking back down the Butts with St Thomas's on the right. You can see from the map that the line of the Butts has changed slightly particularly at the current junction with Albany Road and the dual carriageway (new Butts). The old road ran straight across this corner. The line of trees gives a good idea of how the southern side of the road continued in front of the college. As you said the first picture I posted was probably from inside the buildings. This one from what is now the pavement on the Technical College side is more likely to be from the roughly the same position as the original.

Here's a couple more photos from Britain from above. The first from 1927 shows Butts running down from Queens Road past St Thomas's and then the sports ground with Hope Street and Butts Terrace facing directly onto the sports ground. The second from 1939 shows the Tech Also here's a zoom into Hope Street and I think you can make out the Terrace on the right?

Hope Street was where my grandmother's side of the family originated (surname Eaves). I certainly remember visiting my great uncle who still lived in the family home prior to demolition early 1960's. He had lived there all his life after suffering from 'Shell Shock' in the Great War. He never married. Funnily enough the Beatles' film 'Yellow Submarine' shows a row of terraced houses named Hope Street when the song 'All the Lonely People' is played quite early on in the film as I recall. I think the Tuck Shop & College Book Shop were in between Windsor Street and Thomas Street, possibly where the YWCA now stands virtually opposite the Tech College entrance, albeit closer to the gates where the townward side of the dual carriageway is.

I may have found the answer here to my earlier question about the location of the Tuck Shop opposite the college thanks to Mirrorpix and Debbie Dean Nelson. 1962 Spon End and probably taken from Givens House with Sherbourne House to the left - Vincent Street in front just below. Those rows did not last much longer.

We've seen images like this one before of Butts as Spon Gate House goes up however the snippet of the old row to the right is interesting to see -

A good one Neil, well for me remembering the little wool/baby linen shop situated on the corner. I used to cut through from the Broomfield Tav. For a little shop it held just about everything. I don't suppose for one minute it's there now.

Albany Road, Earlsdon Barbara Kelly White saved.

The final days of the original housing in Hope Street in 1964 - George Poole House in the background Talk about before and after!

Our family home from the 19th century was in Hope Street (Eaves), can't remember the number (maybe someone can tell me), but one elderly relative, Edward (Ted) Eaves who suffered from shellshock in WWI never married and lived there all his life until the house was demolished about 1962/3. The maisonettes, shown in the photo behind, were built 1959. My gran (his sister) married and lived in Kirby Road, Earlsdon from when they were first built (circa 1906) and died there 1974. We used to take Sunday Dinner down each week to Hope Street late 1950's/early 1960's.

In 1911, William and Amelia Eaves, plus five children including Edward (aged 19), lived at 15 Hope Street

Thanks MR, It's all come back to me now, No.15! One of the 5 children was my grandmother, also called Amelia and she married Frederick Lewis. They both resided at 11 Kirby Road all their lives and bought the house from new I believe. I always thought they moved in before WW1, but obviously this may not be the case. Also thanks to Heathite for providing the info. from Spennells Directory for 1921. I notice that Fred's name is listed but not Amelia's, yet my mother was born in the house in 1919.