Here's a question which I've just been asked. My old family homestead is on the New Coventry Road, which splits away from the old road just city-side of Lyndon Road and re-joins it at Brays Road. Can anyone say (or guess) why they cut a 'new' road when there was a perfectly good 'old' road that could have been widened?
The houses along the New Coventry Road are 1930s-vintage so I'm guessing the 'new' road was cut through at the same time, or beforehand.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.