Water features in town

I remember the water feature outside the Belgrade regularly have a box of soap powder chucked in it. Anyone have a picture??

Mick, it was often Sky Blue!

One of these days I'm going to work out where that well was on the old maps.

Not quite town but is this the same one that was outside St John's / now on Earlsdon Avenue South? (pictured here at the junction of Hearsall Common and Earlsdon Avenue North).

Nice find. I think that it's a slightly different design.

From the Daily Telegraph. That drinking fountain was from the employees of the Coventry Chain. The inscription read; "Erected by the employees of the Coventry Chain Company Ltd in memory of the 45 comrades who fell in the great war 1914 -1918". The presentation actually took place exactly 104 years ago, July 10th 1920 ! Despite the treacherous weather, nothing changes.

Great timing

It still exists in Spon End, outside the old Renold Chain Factory ! It was eventually placed there after the plaque turned up in a flea market in Chorley. (Argon I have edited the name, checked it on Google ! but spell checker tried to change it 3 times back to the other spelling.) My grandad actually worked there at some time.

Hello, A visitor to Coventry, a one time resident once said to me that Coventry could only get a water feature to operate for three minutes before it stops working. How much accuracy there is in that, is over to you. Coventry water supply is so hard, how often do we have to clean a scrape water taps clogged with scale. Domestic central heating systems were historically limited in our area because of this, until the indirect boiler technologies arrived that used the same circulatory water over & over again. It's the oxygen reaction with the lime that exacerbates the issue. Both any external oxygen or oxygen dissolved in the water. If during maintenance, a particular radiator gets removed for partial drainage, it's not long before that radiator & the connection go rotten. With external water features it's hardly surprising that there are constant issues. Wiki illustrated explanation Folk of my age might remember the galvanised outside water tanks, that sat on top of kitchens like my mum's in Sewall Highway. Not for drinking, but for doing laundry. My mum's washing machine was fed from it. I can't remember seeing many when I came to live in Holbrooks, but Holbrooks had its own ground water supply, where the local pumping station in Watery lane had water softening stuff. Them wert days, hey!