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It's time to strap yourself back into the machine, and travel forward a couple of decades to around 1939. Much of Coventry's centre had recently been rebuilt - Trinity Street and Owen Owen's department store are only a year or so old - and for a very short time things must have appeared to be "on the up". All that, of course, was about to change....
For this reason, due to the extremely short time before war broke out, the availability of photographs for this period is rather limited.
 

1939

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How Coventry looked around 1939 Broadgate looking north Broadgate looking north Broadgate looking north Broadgate looking north Broadgate looking into Cross Cheaping Broadgate looking into Cross Cheaping Broadgate looking into Cross Cheaping Cross Cheaping looking north Cross Cheaping looking north Cross Cheaping looking north Broadgate looking into Trinity Street Broadgate looking into Trinity Street Broadgate looking into Trinity Street Broadgate looking south Broadgate looking south Broadgate looking towards Trinity Church and the Library Broadgate looking towards Trinity Church and the Library Broadgate looking towards Trinity Church and the Library Hales Street looking towards White Street Hales Street looking towards White Street Hales Street looking towards White Street Hertford Street looking north Hertford Street looking north Hertford Street looking north High St looking into Smithford St High St looking into Smithford St High St looking into Smithford St High St looking into Smithford St Hill St looking north-west Hill St looking north-west Hill St looking north-west Smithford Street looking west Smithford Street looking west Smithford Street looking west Smithford Street looking east Smithford Street looking east (High Street in the distance) Smithford Street looking east (High Street in the distance) Trinity Street looking towards Hales Street Trinity Street looking towards Hales Street
How Coventry looked around 1939
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