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Tue 23rd Mar 2021 9:25am
On the Coventry Buses thread...
On 13th Mar 2011 5:57pm, InnisRoad said:
I have now found the stamping works on my 1927 map, but it is one of the very few that is not named. I have now been told that Jeffrey Woods Cross was definitely the Five Ways at the junction of Harnall Lane East and Swan Lane.
The Five Ways in the timetable is identified as a Fare Stage between Cash's Lane and Brett's Works, so I think it must have been where Springfield Road meets Leicester Causeway and Harnall Lane West, because the route was Foleshill Road, Eagle Street, Harnall Lane West and Harnall Lane East. Although JW's Cross was a five ways, it is beyond Brett's Works on the route.
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Positively Pottering
East Midlands
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Tue 23rd Mar 2021 9:33am
Ah yes - Jeffrey Woods Cross.
Thanks MR.  |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
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Tue 23rd Mar 2021 1:33pm
British History Online says the land belonged to Geoffrey de Langley and he had woods there.
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Helen F
Warrington
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Wed 24th Mar 2021 12:05pm
Anne
On the 1850 map it is marked as Geoffrey Woods Cross. At that time it was more of a T junction with Swan Lane heading north and southeast and Harnall Lane coming in from the west. Nicholls Street was a farm track turning into a footpath as it headed south. |
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Annie
Coventry
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Thu 30th Dec 2021 12:23am
I was born 1958 and lived in Springfield Road up to 1997.
Jeffrey Woods Cross was not the Five Ways at all.
I DO remember a bus going to Jeffrey Woods Cross. I believe it was near Swan Lane |
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Midland Red
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Thu 30th Dec 2021 8:38am
This map confirms the location at the junction of Harnall Lane East and Swan Lane
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scrutiny
coventry
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Thu 30th Dec 2021 9:05am
The only 'five ways' I knew was at the start of the Stoney Stanton Road where it met with Norton Street, Jesson Street, Cook Street and Swanswell Terrace. It always amazed me because there was no roundabout. It was a genuine free for all as you could turn left or right across the other traffic. Just thought I would mention. |
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Midland Red
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83 of 114
Thu 30th Dec 2021 9:37am
That would be as this map shows...
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mcsporran
Coventry & Cebu
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Tue 8th Aug 2023 7:16pm
Resuscitating this topic from a few years ago, here are some road names with a fairly obvious origin, but are firms no longer tn existence in the city.
Austin Drive, CV6 7NS
Daimler Road, CV6 3GD
Dolomite Avenue, CV5
Dunlop Close, CV6 4NZ
Herald Avenue, CV5
Humber Road, CV3
Marconi Close, CV3 1QE
Nuffield Road, CV6
Ringway Rudge
Rover Road, CV1
Swallow Road, CV6 4PU
Torrington Avenue, CV4
Wickmans Drive, CV4
Perhaps there are others?
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Not Local
Bedworth
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Tue 8th Aug 2023 8:19pm
One old one - Lanchester Rd in Radford.
One new one - Bluebird Drive off Beake Avenue on the old Dunlop site. I guess this was sufficiently near to the old Motor Panels factory which had a hand in building both Bluebird the car and Bluebird the boat for the late Donald Campbell.
Just thought of another one - Riley Square in Bell Green.
A couple more - Standard Avenue and another relatively new one - Sunbeam Way (new housing by Humber Rd and Terry Rd) |
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Tue 8th Aug 2023 8:31pm
There are 4 more on the old Standard Triumph site.
Toledo Close
Spitfire Close
Renown Avenue
Vanguard Avenue
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Not Local
Bedworth
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Tue 8th Aug 2023 8:55pm
Armstrong Avenue
Siddeley Avenue
Deasy Road (off London Rd)
Maudslay Road
Singer Close (off Bell Green Rd)
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Tue 8th Aug 2023 9:01pm
Sunbeam Way
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Tue 8th Aug 2023 9:06pm
I know they are not in Coventry, but there is
Bonneville Close and Daytona Drive on the old Triumph Motorbike site in Meriden
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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Wed 9th Aug 2023 9:10am
There is a Massey Close on the old Banner Lane site.
I looked for somewhere related to the Alvis, no streets, but the site is called "The Alvis Retail Park"
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