The Hillfields Postcard Collection

In the early years of the 20th Century, when photography was less prolific than it is today, local companies produced postcards of many things that would not be seen as worthy of note today. Postcards provide a widely available photographic record of the city. Many have been reproduced in books about the history of the Coventry. This page shows some of the postcards that were published showing pictures of Hillfields and the surrounding area. 

Swanswell pool is the most common subject of postcards of Hillfields:

	[New]

Other local Parks are another common subject:

Primrose Park 1918	"New Park" Gosford Green	Lady Herbert's Garden [New]

Local pubs were also the subject of postcards::

Royal Exchange, Victoria Street	The Five Ways Tavern, Harnall Lane

But local streets were also common:

Cambridge Street	Sackville Street	Stoney Stanton Road	Victoria Street
Far Gosford Street [New]

And strangely they also produced postcards from accidents:

A tram accident in Lower Ford Street in 1907.

This page was last updated 15/06/03