Nostalgic Pictures of Hillfields, Coventry 1960s & 1970s | CoventryLive

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[@jamesdond614]

Our first home was in Hillfields, born at Gulson Rd Hospital. Now living in Bangkok. Up the Sky Blues.

[@julialan7494]

I lived in pioneer house the first 3 years of my life 1971-1973 in Hillfields

[@markfulton956]

my First church was in Hillfields, Hillfields Church of Christ, many happy memories. Lovely guitar music btw

[@frankiefugazi]

Wow! I was born in Hillfields in the 60's and left early 90's. If you were a Hillfields kid it was a great place to grow up...if you weren't from "The Hills" maybe not so great. I miss it muchly.
My older bro bought a pair of 2nd hand Blue Suede BeetleCrushers from Pearson's in '78, I still take the piss! 😁

[@michaelgray9234]

Now a ghetto

[@frankiefugazi]

We called it playing Marlies in the Hills, and I'm pretty sure we played the Indian version in Hillfields/Foleshill...John Gulson Junior School, Class Of '79 😃

[@johnmcmenamin9747]

Paddy, looking out on the horizon, a wonderful man.

[@norffc1548]

I would love to go back...

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

You wouldn't. It's not the same and that's putting it mildly.

[@johnmcmenamin9747]

Lived at number 6 Vernon Street.

[@COVbadman79]

The wings on the tops of the flats used to remind me of giant birds

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

In the 1960s I used to buy my jelly-babies from a sweet shop run by an older lady, the loose sweets were all kept in large glass jars with screw tops. They would be weighed on an old scale and then put in a paper bag. The last time I visited Coventry there wasn't a single English-owned business left. Hillfields was known as the area where prostitutes plied their business. Not the greatest area.

[@stevem-h3562]

What about the licensing of some of those pictures for an album cover?

[@samsara3694]

What a shame about not being able to preserve those 3 storey terraces. Interesting design, with that single window (?) on the second storey. Does anybody know more about them?

[@50LightSabersInAPack]

Old weaver's houses (or top shops). It's where they worked during the day so the single large window is to let the most light in

[@samsara3694]

@@50LightSabersInAPack Thank you! Such a shame they couldn't be preserved.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Criminal that they were demolished. Part of Coventry's history destroyed.

[@coventrycity7308]

Full of foreigners now

[@jamiew1664]

hillfields. Always been a disgusting place. Bless the nice people who lived there though. always been a rough area housing some of the worst dregs of cov.

[@user-es3hq5zk4e]

I miss dancing about on Thomas King House in my soiled mothers underwear...hey ho...

[@paulbroderick8438]

The city renewal planning is disgusting. All high rises for the sheeple proletariat.

[@jimmorrison2657]

proletariat? Get over yourself mate.

[@tonemc6047]

Agenda21/30 in action !

[@paulbroderick8438]

@@jimmorrison2657 Again, DISGUSTING. Got it!!