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Steven Orland's Coventry, Now & Then

Hales Street and the Old Fire Station

Now we can see what Hales Street used to look like before the war - 1937 in this photo. The old Hippodrome was still there - about to be demolished and replaced by a new theatre. (See my dad's page showing the New Hippodrome.) The old Fire Station was smaller then too, and behind that is the Art School in Ford Street, (with the pointy roof) and further back, a row of shops in White Street, which all disappeared so the Ring Road could be built.

At least Swanswell Gate is still there, and the Fire Station too, which as you can see was made larger after the war, but is now a restaurant, opened in 2006.

All "new" photographs by Steven Orland. All "old" photographs are taken from early postcards.

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