Foleshill (inc. Foleshill Road)

Hello & welcome, I'm organist at the chapel that you walked by going into the railway hotel. The hotel has been empty for around twenty years. Our chapel struggles to have thirty folk for services. The Angel, was one of the best pubs for weekday dinners in the sixties, me working at Courtaulds. It's gone!I I grew up in Wyken, but many of my Coventry relatives were Foleshill folk. All long gone now. Thank you for your post.

There was another student house around the corner in Beresford Avenue at about the same period. One of the occupants won a rather special Austin Healey Sprite sports car in a competition run by Cars & Car Conversions magazine. I used to see the car parked in the street at night, that is until somebody stole it. I don't think that the owner ever got it back. I only ever went into the Indian and Commonwealth Club on a couple of occasions, and yes, the dominoes were crashing down. I only went into the Angel once and certainly did not feel welcome. The Wolfe was fine though. I guess that most pubs were 'self regulating' in those days with the regulars and the landlord stepping in if any scraps got out of hand. As a young man I worked with a chap who was a retired police officer. He had worked in Birmingham from the late 1930's into the 1960's and he recalled the advice he was given as a young constable, and which he in turn passed on through the years. It was, 'Run to a fire, but walk to a fight'- hopefully it will all be over by the time that you get there and everyone will be friends again.