Hillfields

Thank you for this picture, I don't remember the pub but I recognize those 3 storey houses with the top shops, up the street,

Looking at the Pub history pages on here, the Half Moon Inn on Yardley St was bombed in 1940, and the council built a 10 storey block of flats on the site later on.

I think that corner and the one catty corner were our playgrounds.

I think this one is too generic to pinpoint the exact location but another thanks to the ©Elizabeth Tyler collection - she's pretty sure it's somewhere in Hillfields but gives us a great impression of the social history of the time and area -

More thanks to © Elizabeth Tyler's camera circa 1963. I've added this to the Hillfield's thread as she believes this was taken from one of the new blocks however I can't pinpoint currently - You would think the church would be St Peters but the 'Spire' looks totally different (St Peters being castellated rather than a pointed Spire) - If you zoom in centre left there is a sign which appears to say Groves & (Son?) but I can't see that on the directories as need to know the Street on the ones I have -

I'm pretty sure that, as you say, that's the wrong spire for it to be St Peter's. Also, if the photo was taken from a block of flats, I think the streets are running in the wrong direction for it to be looking towards Charles Street. The taller blocks of flats, like Pioneer House, weren't built until later in the sixties. I'm happy to be proved wrong. It's an intriguing picture. It looks like a Lowry painting.

I think that the church spire could be the church at the corner of Stoney Stanton Rd and Eagle Street, can't think of the name but the plaque on the wall says that it was a Wesleyan church. If this is the case, the road running into the distance from left to right with all the chimney pots is Stoney Stanton Rd so the derelict houses would have been close to the now demolished blocks of flats in Hillfields.

Great shout Not Local It's definitely that Church as the Spire matches. And with additional comments on Elizabeth's FB post it's now been identified as having been taken from Stevens House looking North. The House with the hole in its roof was on Spencer Street. I'm reminded by this post of the excellent Hillfields History Group pages on Flickr - they have a near identical image and some recent additions so definitely worth checking out if you have not visited there for a while.

Hello, There's a fabulous array of pictures on F/B True Coventrian site, posted by Debbie. Too many to copy but lovely to see.

©Elizabeth Tyler once more - believed to be Hillfield's again. Little to go on to fully establish the location but a good social historical image -

© Historic England Brook Street circa 1950-'59