Wyken Slough to the Rose & Crown, Bell Green, Coventry.

Walkabout video starting at Wyken Slough and taking in parts of Wood End and Bell Green, Coventry - ending outside the famous Rose & Crown pub.
Includes Riley Square.
#coventry #walkaround #streetart

[@leefranks9332]

I used you go there as a kid from henley green Winston Ave great days

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Wyken Slough used to be a family park. There was a snack bar and toilets; you could go on a motor boat around the lake. Would get crowded with families and children every sunny weekend in Spring/Summer.

[@francispalmer9737]

I lived their in what used to be called River walk back in the early 70s and went to the Bell green primary school. wow it has changed a lot. the lake you started this vid with would freeze over in the winter and I used to skate on it. I am 59 now but had good memories living their where you filmed this. Cheers shawry

[@jameshollyoak8230]

Same here I remember the ice was so thick we would play on it for weeks and the boats on there in the summers,god it’s changed a lot since I lived around there

[@user-es3hq5zk4e]

the geezer in the spazz scooter was pushing his luck...

[@swizerland100]

viewed.

[@darwinsfish]

Riley Square has become a third world shithole. I remember it as a thriving shopping precinct. It’s a concrete dystopian dump now. Depressing as hell.

[@jimmorrison2657]

Mate, anyone would think it used to be the garden of Eden or something, the way you are going on.
It wern't that smart, and it's more or less the same now.

[@jameshollyoak8230]

I can remember as a kid the toy shop , was amazing to look in the windows , Woolworths , Sainsbury’s, kick save , the wool shop by the post office it was a busy place , shame it’s been left to rot

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

@@jameshollyoak8230 A chemists, a barbers and a library too.

[@jamesduffy7549]

It was always made of concrete