EAW024755 ENGLAND (1949). Charter Hostel and an estate of prefabricated houses at Westwood Heath, Coventry, 1949

Wakefield Crossing and crossing keeper's house

Scarborough Way

Steam train heading towards coventry.

Plot of land where they built lines of garages.

Marler Road.

Marler Road.

Sub Station.

Duggins Lane.

Crossing at railway line going towards what will be Torrington Avenue.

Waste ground we used for our bonfires ,later on became Alderman Harris School.

Jock Ferry's bungalow (school caretaker).

NHS Clinic for children (.small bottles of orange juice) jabs etc.

Whitchurch Way.

Scarborough Way.

Papnam Green.

Site of CIU Canley Social Club before it was uilt.

Founders close.

Kele road.

Preston close

Sub station.

Classrooms in quadrangle.

There was a small pond and a dyke running down to a stream at bottom of wood

End of Charter ave before Cromwell lane was built.

School playground.

What we called the dark woods.

Railway bridge leading to what was to be Torrington ave.

Bomb hole

My house ,314

Devils playground.

Classrooms

Main hall and gym

Dining room

School boiler house

School boiler house

Tile Hill Village

Future site of 'Tanyard Farm' housing development

Electricity gear-box cabinet embossed with "Coventry Corporation Electricity Department" and coat of arms - still in place as off May 2023

Torrington Avenue

Bradney Green

This will become the site of Canley Social Club. I remember attending a children’s party there on Coronation day.

This would become Parkwood Lane.

Hayton Green.

Tile Hill Station

Charter Primary School

my old home

Birmingham to Coventry rail line - Birmingham is off to the top of the photo.

Park Wood

Ten Shilling Wood

Charter Avenue

Wolfe Road