Warwick Row and Greyfriars Green

I think CliffB found the best one of the Greyfriars Cannon - "The start of Tank Week at Greyfriars Green in Coventry, 11th February 1918. Tank No 119 'Ole Willie' travelled the country raising money in war bonds. Coventry raised a record breaking £1,370,236." ...and probably the last ever image of it.

That's great, Neil! Definitely not seen that before. The lower one is the barrel picture I mentioned. I heard they were going to melt it for the war, but they didn't until after the war? If so they might as well have repaired it.

Thanks to my friend Paul Michael Kennelly, this picture shows Lancers at the Coventry Barracks with the two Crimean guns circa 1860. They were captured and presented to the city in July 1858. Apparently they were cast in 1799, were 40cwt and measured 8ft 2in each. This must rate as one of Coventry's earliest photograph's?!

Nice find Neil. Helen, is that a cropped picture? It's good either way though.

It is a cropped, enhanced picture Osmiroid but I still think that I've seen better. I'll post one when I see it. Neil, it would be one of the earliest pictures, I've never worked out the oldest. Is it me or does the guy on the left look like Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

I don't think these were the soldiers of the origin of 'Sent to Coventry', they were much earlier, but still boycotted by Coventry residents. Soldiers carried the story all over the world. The soldiers of old had to execute distress warrants amongst residents especially butchers of Butcher Row, who had to supply the soldiers' rations, the meat taken by forcible means. Butchers, not liking what they considered unjust, opposed the soldiers, one of whom was killed by a butcher (black Friday chopping time), many injured.

I don't think these were the soldiers of the origin of 'Sent to Coventry', it was Roman Legionaires.

Now I heard that it was the Royalists locked up during the Civil War who were 'sent to Coventry'. Some were housed in St John's Church but a few might have been locked up in Greyfriars Gate. The Bridewell was a prison next to St John's and the Spon Street Gate but I'm not 100% sure if it dated back to the Civil War.

I thought it was civil war as well, Helen.

I am sad to be told Warwick Road URC church is to be SOLD. Not to a developer I HOPE!

Ohh! Lets hope not indeed Prof. I used to go there for the Bablake boys prize-giving for my lads. Great building.

I'm sad to hear that that amazing church building is for sale. Pentecostal congregations are growing and popping all the time and I really hope one of them buys the building and uses it for the reason it was built.

Adding here as we don't have a dedicated Warwick Road thread, but we've seen that ace 'Spider' clock before!