It is, of course, impossible to exhaust our subject in the limits of a handbook.  Apart from descriptions of its recent industrial and social condition, the history of Coventry, on an adequate scale and proper method, would fill volumes. In …

IV

To use an Irishism, we will begin our fourth portion of  the  perambulation  of  the  city  with  a  railway ride.    Taking train for Foleshill, on the Nuneaton branch line — opened in 1848 — we travel for about …

Free Library 

The late Mr. Samuel Carter at once gave  £1,000 towards the new building, and Mr. Gulson then handsomely undertook the completion of the work, which cost more than £4,000. The internal fittings cost about £2,000, contributed by citizens.  …

Coventry Cemetery

Turning to the right we approach the pretty entrance to the Coventry Cemetery, and if there is a feeling of pleasure at the outside appearance of this “hallowed ground’’ that feeling is enhanced when we make a closer …

III

Starting from Broadgate, we pass along High Street, and turn into Little Park Street, leading to that part of the Cheylesmore estate formerly comprising the Little Park.  Directly on our right is a building now occupied as the Club …

Christ Church and the Grey Friars

Returning to Queen’s Road, and passing on, with the handsome residences of Stoneleigh Terrace on our right and Grey Friars’ Green on our left, we reach Warwick Road, and, turning to the left,, make …

Old Gas Works

Turning to the right into Gas Street, we find there the main entrance to the Old Gas Works.  The first works for supplying Coventry with gas were erected by a number of private gentlemen in 1821, but …

Bablake 

Adjoining the churchyard of St. John’s stands a venerable building, in an excellent state of preservation, founded as a school in 1560 by Thomas Wheatley, mayor.  It is called Bablake School, a name derived from a water conduit once …

For our second walk, we will start from the King’s Head Hotel, at the corner of Smithford Street.   As we look down this important business thoroughfare we cannot but notice what a picturesque effect the old houses, with their …

Returning down Bishop Street an exceptionally picturesque view of a portion of the city lies before us. Through a gateway on the right we shall find some curious old buildings. On the left we pass the end of Silver Street, …