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William Knights
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196 of 198  Wed 27th Nov 2024 1:44pm  

On 26th Nov 2024 1:55pm, Helen F said: They took quite a while to buy and demolish the buildings to be ready for the Council House. What you can see through the gateway is a little site building put up where the Cross Keys used to stand and you can see Court 2 peeking over the top. The Cross Keys was demolished in 1897. Court 2 lasted until about 1808. The Council House wasn't started until 1913. You can see the raw end of Court 2 and the site building in Prof's picture below.
This is a great photo and clearly shows the narrowness of the roads all the way up to LPS(?). Helen - Was Court 2 demolished in 1808 or 1908?
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NeilsYard
Coventry
197 of 198  Wed 27th Nov 2024 2:16pm  

I think it's a typo from Helen William - it's 1908. You can see the Court here on this 1887 CD map -
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Helen F
Warrington
198 of 198  Wed 27th Nov 2024 2:52pm  

Thanks William, I did mean 1908. I've corrected the original. I'm too submerged in yesteryear at the moment. Normally I get the mistake the other way round and say 19xy when I mean 18xy or even 17xy. The roads seemed impossibly narrow to modern standards but they concertinaed in and out over the centuries. Owners were often sneaking a bit of pavement into their control with temporary structures and if nobody objected over the decades they then built permanently. Proper raised pavements probably made the width of the road more of an issue because the earlier arrangement allowed carts to use pedestrian spaces as and when they needed to. Give or take cellar stairways and shutter/display tables. The worst pinch points were the junctions of the roads and they were mostly the first areas to be widened. Road widening was under way in the 1700s and 1800s but sped up in the 1900s.
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