Ford Street and Lower Ford Street

I was born in 1948 just across the road at no 30 LFS. I Used to play in the sand at a very young age in the builders yard. When it was clocking off time you stayed away from those gates otherwise you would get mowed down with the flood of cycles coming through them, five minutes later you could not see one of them.

You tell it as it is, Scrutiny, That makes it so sweet.

They keep turning up! Another from Dean Nelson.

Another cracker from Paul Stevenson on FB. LFS looking west towards the Alexandra/Fleapit, May 1969. The Ring Road is just going up in the background.

I remember the Alex very well, Neil. Also the other 'fleapit', the Plaza - although I don't remember catching anything from there.

My dad could have been one of the cycling stampede. He worked there in the Jobbing Shop from 1938 but I think he moved to the Model Room at Copsewood sometime about 1948. I believe he said GEC Lower Ford Street was the Radio Works when he was there. The Francis Barnett was further along to the right, on the bend. I remember looking inside when the doors were open in summer and seeing the engines being assembled ~1956. Wiki says the plant closed in 1962.

NeilsYard I was in Coventry last week to attend my sister's funeral and stayed at an Airbnb at 11A Lower Ford Street. I was surprised when your post came up. The property was behind the first house in Lower Ford Street, I think it would have been part of the old Francis Barnett site. There are now two large blocks of flats on the site which seem to be student accommodation. I was surprised at the amount of rubbish left on the street in Lower Ford Street, we are not used to seeing this in Perth. We used the X1 bus service to get to and from Birmingham Airport, good value at £2.00 per journey and runs every 20 minutes. Alan H

Hi Alan Sorry for your loss - a shame we couldn't have met up with Rob etc for one of our breakfasts. I didn't think there was much left of the old FB site. Do you have a link to the Airbnb at all or any pics?

Link here, Neil

Midland Red Thanks for finding the Airbnb site. Alan H

Neils Yard After reading the details of the Airbnb site, I have realised it was not part of the FB site but was a coach house. There is a similar one behind the old Chapman glass shop, this also seems to have been modernised. Alan H

11A Lower Ford Street Coventry, Peak District & Derbyshire Dales

Similar to previously posted views but still pre-Sky Blue Way although the BTH building has now gone -