Sewall Highway

Rightmove has data for numbers 2 up to 773. Are there any roads with higher numbers than that in the city?

Broad Lane goes past 1000, so too does Foleshill Road

Another question about Sewall Highway, and probably a lot more streets around Coventry. Considering the houses where we lived, as I understand it, were built about 1937, there were very few cars about, if any, at that time. Why did we have such large and car width wide back entries? Hard to imagine the thinking, unless of course they just had incredible forethought?

Coventry geared for change (later on more cars per head of household than anywhere) or perhaps rubbish bin collections, a ten foot would make it faster if two or more workmen.

We lived in that area, my parents bought a house in Elgar Road in 1940. The back entries were certainly wide enough for cars. I can remember the council dustcart used to reverse up the entry by our house as the bins were a long way from the road. I am sure coal lorries used to access the houses that way too, since everyone had coal houses at the back of the house.

The dust carts and coal lorries never went down our entries. They would not have got around the corners. That is why one admires dustmen and coalmen from our day. They had to go all the way around the back, the dustman halfway up the garden, the coalman to the top of the garden. They could only carry one sack of coal or one dustbin at a time. Do not recall any complaining.

You are right, Slash1. They were pretty filthy and physical jobs. There were no binliners then and the bins would be heavy as they were full of ashes from coal fires. As you say, the dustmen had to go up the garden to collect and then return the bins. I remember them wearing a sort of leather shoulder pad to carry the bins. Likewise the coalmen, who would carry the sacks up the garden and empty them into the coalhouse. The lorries would reverse up our entry but I'm sure many others would be too narrow. Ours was T-shaped and it only got as far as the junction, but it saved a lot of time and effort. It is also the case that the lorries were considerably smaller then.