Short Street

Super image, NY, thanks for posting Particularly interested to see one of Alf Youell's vans in the foreground!

I also agree, great photo Neil, what year would this have been?

1 Moat Street Flyover, Ringway Rudge & Queens, 1962 2 Ringway St. Nicholas & Foleshill Radial, 1963 3 Ringway Hill Cross & Radford Spur, 1964 4 Butts Radial, 1965 5 Ringway Swanswell, Ringway Whitefriars, Leicester Radial, 1968-9 6 Ringway St. Johns & Ringway St Patrick's, 1971-4 So 1968-'69.

1958. By 1960 there was a huge roundabout in the middle, the bus shelters on the left had gone and Ringway St John had been completed.

Short Street in 1948. The cyclists are presumably leaving the Armstrong Siddeley factory in Parkside headed for Much Park Street. The east side of Short Street was cleared very early in the century so is not the result of German bombing.

I like the motor cycle and sidecar with a set of ladders. I doiubt that'd be allowed today.

Great shot Dutchman - so are we looking south at what is todays Technology Park?

Yes Neil

I guess that elegant industrial frontage has long gone? (The white one).

Yep, it's now a car park!

Yes it's interesting as even today the curve of that road is still the same around to the Admiral Lord Rodney, or whatever it's called nowadays

What a shame.

That same corner looked like this at one time:

From the Coventrian FB page - There was discussion some time ago about the Church building to the left but could not recall/find.