The Fight to Save Vine Street 

Vine Street was scheduled for demolition in the post-war redevelopment of Hillfields. Local residents, with the support of Community Development workers set out to save their street. They produced a report and a video which was shown to the Housing Committee who decided in their favour. Their story is documented in a series of articles in the Coventry Evening Telegraph. The residents won their case, but as explained in the last story the decision reflected the start of the decline of Coventry as an industrial city and Hillfields as an employment area.

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20th October 1975 - Its the Save our Street Film Show

24th October 1975 - Committee Act on Save our Street Plea

3rd November 1975 - Save our Street Victory in Sight

6th November 1975 - The Gloom: Saviour to the Doomed

These stories, courtesy of the Coventry Evening Telegraph, were supplied by local resident Eileen Smith who was part of the campaign and still lives in the street. You can see her in the photographs.

This page was last updated 29/03/03