Coventry Now & Then
n these pages, I have attempted to stand in the footprints of photographers who pictorially documented our City of Coventry many decades ago. Wherever possible, I have tried to recreate the same direction and perspective that is recorded in the original shots, so that a direct comparison can be made, between the views that we now recognise, and those seen by our ancestors.
For the benefit of those of you not familiar with all the places on these pages, I have placed links next to each Heading labelled Camera No. 1, 2, etc. Clicking these will reveal a map showing where each photograph was taken from. Clicking on the correspondingly numbered camera icon will return you to the page you came from. You may wish to use this map as an index to this "now and them" section, although unfortunately, a small number of places are outside the area covered by the map.
1: Arts School, Ford Street2: Bishop Street, looking north3: Bishop Street, looking south4: Bishop Street Post Office5: Blue Coat School & ruins6: Broadgate from Holy Trinity Church7: Burges from Bishop Street8: Burges from Cross Cheaping9: Butcher Row, Great10: Butcher Row, Little11: Cheylesmore Manor House12: Coat of Arms Bridge13: Cook Street gate14: Council House15: Cox Street16: Far Gosford Street17: Fire Station, Hales Street18: Fleet Street19: Ford's Hospital20: Golden Cross & Pepper Lane21: Greyfriars Lane22: The Grove23: Guildhall & 22 Bayley Lane24: Hales Street25: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum26: Hertford Street27: Hertford Street from Broadgate28: High Street from Broadgate29: High Street from Earl Street30: High Street aerial view31: Hill Street, Bablake & Bond's32: Hippodrome, new33: Hippodrome, old34: Humber Motor Works35: Ironmonger Row36: Jordan Well & Earl Street37: Jordan Well & Gosford Street38: Kenilworth Road39: Leamington Road40: Much Park Street41: Naul's Mill Park42: Old Rope Walk43: Palace Yard44: Pool Meadow45: Precinct & Old Coventry aerial view46: Precinct, upper47: Precinct, west view48: Priory Row49: Priory Street, lower end50: Priory Street, upper end51: Queen Victoria Road flood of 190052: Railway Station, Eaton Road53: Railway Station - the platform54: Smithford Way55: Spon End arches56: Spon Street flood of 190057: St. John's Church, Fleet Street58: St. Michael's Avenue59: St. Michael's ruins60: St. Michael's spire from Pepper Lane61: Stoke Green & Pool62: Swanswell Gate63: Swanswell Pool64: Swimming Baths, Priory Street65: Trinity Church66: Trinity Lane & the Free Library67: Trinity Lane from Priory Row68: Trinity Street aerial view69: Trinity Street & Hales Street70: War Memorial Park71: Warwick Row, Hertford St & Warwick Lane72: Warwick Road73: Well Street from Hales Street74: West Orchard75: Wheatley Street Schools
For those of you with JavaScript enabled on your computer, (most should be) I've made some of the photos a 2-in-1 picture. Some will require a mouse-click to fade-in and fade-out (like the one below) - others will change when the mouse is held over the image. I've explained which is necessary by each one.
In a similar vein to these pages you can compare scenes of Coventry from the days before cameras were around in
Engraved Coventry.
