Photos by 2989andyd : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

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Partly there, although some of it burnt down earlier this year (2009). I'm not sure howmuch is left.

Many many childhood days spent here playing football or cricket, collecting conker and climbing the trees. Happy days, especially when the nearby paddling pool was filled, sadly now disused and abandoned to vandalism.

St Michael's Church, built in the 15th Cen and destroyed by the Nazis on the night of 14 November 1940. It was said to have had a very notable ceiling, sadly burned by incendiary bombs. Now this is a symbol of international peace and reconciliation.

Two of the city's three iconic spires. Holy Trinity on the left and St Michael's Cathdral on the right. The third is Christchurch spire, some 300 yards away across Broadgate and down Hertford Street.

This handsome building stands at the top of Trinity Street. There was a branch of H Samuel the jeweller here until some years ago. I believe an IRA bomb exploded here in about 1938 or 1939. The bomb was left on a bicycle left leaning outside the shop.

To the left is London Road Cemetery, where many of the 500+ victims of the bombing of the night of 14 November 1940 are buried. This was the night when Coventry's 15th Cen Cathedral was destroyed. To the right was Whitley Garage. This bridge carries the London to Birminghm railway and has advertised Ferodo disk brakes for at least 40 years, pobably longer.

These tunnels were used by the residents of Shortley Road, Pegmill Close and Humber Road to shelter from the bombing of November 1940 and April 1941.

Reminds me of my own childhood in Hollis Road in the early 70s when it seemed to snow every winter.

My parents John and Hazel were married here on 29 April 1944 They still live in Coventry.