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pixrobin
Canley
241 of 315  Tue 1st Dec 2015 9:54pm  

Part 2 of RLC's view of Canley is now online Municipal Dreams Part 2
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RLCherrington
London
242 of 315  Tue 2nd Feb 2016 5:16pm  

My third and final blog about Canley which brings the history up the present time. Like many estates up and down the country its suffered challenges, changes, decline. The impact of the loss of local manufacturing industry, sale of council houses and the expansion of Warwick University are discussed in the blog. References to previous blogs are in here for those interested in the origins of the estate and development of community. Municipal Dreams - Part 3
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pixrobin
Canley
243 of 315  Wed 20th Apr 2016 8:16pm  

Spotted this today but not sure how long it has been there. It's on Fletchamstead Highway between Prior Deram Walk and Sir Henry Parkes Road. The footpath leads to the bottom of Moat House Lane.
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TonyS
Coventry
244 of 315  Sat 2nd Jul 2016 12:20pm  

Update on the development on the site of the old Dolphin pub. Taken this morning...
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pixrobin
Canley
245 of 315  Sat 2nd Jul 2016 1:37pm  

Thanks for that Tony S. I was wondering when they were going to remove the shuttering from in front of them. Also reminded my that I hadn't put up my pics of the two other infill sites in Canley where the houses are now completed. The first is a short row of 5 houses in Kele Road completed early this year And the other on the development on the north side of Howcotte Green which were just having the finishing touches done when I photographed them at the end of May.
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pixrobin
Canley
246 of 315  Sun 17th Jul 2016 8:59pm  

This is the state of progress on the new Aldi store at Cannon Park. Picture taken a couple of hours ago.
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Old Lincolnian
247 of 315  Tue 19th Jul 2016 10:36am  
Off-topic / chat  

matchle55
Coventry
248 of 315  Tue 19th Jul 2016 1:44pm  

Will someone tell me exactly whereabouts this is in Cannon Park please?

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mayjan
Green Lane,Coventry
249 of 315  Tue 19th Jul 2016 1:59pm  

It's where the Sutton Park Renault car dealership was in Shultern Lane. Thumbs up
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pixrobin
Canley
250 of 315  Tue 19th Jul 2016 3:11pm  

For various reasons it shouldn't really be said to be sited in Cannon Park but Canley. The border betweed Canley and Westwood is Shultern Lane itself. The original continuation of Kirby Corner Road was what is now Moat House Lane. To the west of that was Fletchamstead. Cannon Park is merely a modern name for the area which for centuries had belonged to Tocil and prior to that Cryfield. Does anyone know why Charter Avenue and Mitchell Avenue were made as dual carriageways?

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Slim
Another Coventry kid
251 of 315  Thu 21st Jul 2016 12:25pm  

On 17th Jul 2016 8:59pm, pixrobin said: This is the state of progress on the new Aldi store at Cannon Park. Picture taken a couple of hours ago.
Yeah, we really need yet another supermarket, don't we? Roll eyes
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
252 of 315  Thu 21st Jul 2016 12:28pm  

On 19th Jul 2016 3:11pm, pixrobin said: For various reasons it shouldn't really be said to be sited in Cannon Park but Canley. The border betweed Canley and Westwood is Shultern Lane itself. The original continuation of Kirby Corner Road was what is now Moat House Lane. To the west of that was Fletchamstead. Cannon Park is merely a modern name for the area which for centuries had belonged to Tocil and prior to that Cryfield.
That might explain why, when Canley Post Office was moved from Canley to Cannon Park, it still kept the name Canley Post Office. Confused a lot of us, it did.
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dpmorgan
Epsom
253 of 315  Fri 22nd Jul 2016 7:58pm  

I lived in Canley for a long time, Charter Avenue just past Marler Road. It was changing even then, New Tesco and houses at Cannon Park and of course the university stretching ever further behind the woodland opposite where I lived. In the late 60s I workend in the Dolphin pun for 'Norman and Norma'. Later when I returned to Coventry, after leaving Army, I had a house on Sir Henry Parkes Road opposite the Radiator and near to Canley Halt. My last visit some years ago I got lost going up Broad Lane past Hearsall Common and ended up in a supermarket carpark. I didn't recognise anything.
dpmorgan@cix.co.uk

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Midland Red

254 of 315  Fri 22nd Jul 2016 8:03pm  

Great memories, "dp" - welcome to the forum, and keep them coming Wave
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
255 of 315  Sat 23rd Jul 2016 2:53pm  

It's funny how boundaries and area names change over time. E.g. one rarely hears of Copsewood theses days. It's exacerbated by the estate agents' trick of stretching a boundary to make a building sound upmarket of its real area, e.g. I once had a job to find a place described as Kensington. Looking at the map showed that Kensington had grown vastly to swallow up Shepherds Bush, which was the real address! I used to live in Cannon Park estate, which is well past the shops. It's still there. The other side of Shultern Lane and Cannon Hill Road is Cannon Hill, which was there for many decades before Cannon Park had been thought up. I asked an old resident and she confirmed Cannon Hill. My parents had a shop in Cannon Hill Road for 30 years, and the expression Cannon Park did not exist. An update to my earlier post about the name of the post office at Cannon Park. I went there this morning and looked at the sign/s, which have been changed at some stage. The "Canley" has gone, and has not been replaced with any area name.
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