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Some History of our Town Wall.... Introduction - Building of the Wall The 12 Gates of our Town Wall Tour of our Town Wall remains.... Swanswell Gate Lady Herbert's Garden & City Wall Cook Street Gate Bishop Gate Watch Tower near Lamb Street Wall at Well Street Well Street Gate Hill Street Gate Wall at Bond's Hospital Wall at Fleet Street Spon Gate Greyfriars Gate Cheylesmore Gate Little Park Gate New Gate Wall at Gulson Road Gosford Gate Wall near Cox Street Mill Lane Gate Wall around Pool Meadow City Wall overlaid onto present day Coventry

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Bishop Gate

As you approach the top of Bishop Street, you'll be ale to see the 'Canal Basin' Bridge, which stands very close to the original site of Bishop Gate. (Pictured in David Hales' illustration below, which shows the view from the inside of the gate.)
Before the ring road intervened in the late 1960's, St. Nicholas Street would have continued straight on northwards from here. Now however, the two roads are joined via the footbridge which primarily gives access to the Canal Basin. At the base of the Bishop Street side of the bridge, the plaque pictured here has been laid giving a few details.

Climbing the steps of the footbridge and looking back southwards towards the town centre grants this next view of the two spires, which must be a similar scene to that surveyed by the watchmen standing over the gate many centuries ago. Back then of course, the view would have been unspoilt by modern clutter across the skyline!

In the bottom centre of the photograph is the Old Grammar School that you've just passed at the junction of Hales Street and Corporation Street, with the Burges continuing southwards from Bishop Street towards Primark. (Still Allders in this 2002 photograph, but still better remembered by most locals as the old Owen Owen building.)

Returning to the bottom of the footsteps, we can....

...take a short walk to the length of wall near Lamb Street

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