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Copsewood Grange Golf Club Coventry March 2009
I drove past this place this morning and decided to pop back this afternoon with my camera.
HISTORY OF THE GRANGE BUILDING
In 1840, Edward Goodall, a gentleman of Stoke, owned 78 acres of land known as Copsewood estate. A year later, Henry Brown, owned and occupied the estate with a house, outbuildings, pleasure grounds and buildings. Also listed were 10 different plantations, four Hosier needs, a Croft, Road Home Close, Knight's Close, Peartree Close, Middle Close, Far and Near Sour Dole, Rowley Mill, Moors, Big and Little Barn Close and Peartree Cockpit. The last, now part of the Grange golf course, partly derived from the popular pastime of cock fighting.
A tollgate and gatehouse stood 300 yards on the Coventry side of the Binley bridge not far from the main entrance to the Grange. In November 1772 the toll keeper, Charles Pinchbeck, was robbed and murdered by John Howe of Brinklow and Thomas Farn of Church Lawford. They were both found guilty, a gallows was erected near the scene of the crime and they were hanged.
Mr A.B.Herbert, Mayor of Coventry in 1838, was living in Copsewood House in 1854.He was followed by Charles Dresser, silk merchant, who was Mayor of Coventry in 1857 and died in Copsewood House in 1862.
On 8th September 1870, Copsewood House was sold by auction at the King's Hotel. The old house was demolished and the present Copsewood Grange was erected on the site in 1872 by James Hart, ribbon manufacturer. The date 1870 is on the lodge at the entrance to the Grange with what seem to be Hart's initials carved in the stone. The estate buildings are said to have cost £5000. Hart's large factory, the Victoria Mills, was in Lancastrian yard in the Burges, the site now being part of the Debenham's complex below the Leofric Hotel. With the decline of the ribbon trade, both the Grange and the factory became known as Hart's Folly. The Grange was sold in 1879 to Mr Richard Moon M.D. of London and North eastern Railway, and he was living there when he was created a baronet. The estate now covered more than 200 acres and include the site of the old Biggin Hall. After Sir R. Moon, a Mrs Mellowdew and her two daughters lived at the Grange - Mellowdew Road is named after her.
Finally the Grange was bought by the GEC for use as a hostel and social centre for its first employees when the manufacture of telephone equipment was transferred from Salford, Lancashire, and was recognised as one of the best staff clubs and was also the clubhouse for the Marconi Golf Club.
The golf club is still in operation and has a new clubhouse, also the course has shrunk to a 9 hole course.
The building is completely trashed and there is not a lot left inside other than debris.
You can still see 2 of the original greens to the right of the building.
A busy night many years ago
The last of these that remains
The lodge building
I drove past this place this morning and decided to pop back this afternoon with my camera.
HISTORY OF THE GRANGE BUILDING
In 1840, Edward Goodall, a gentleman of Stoke, owned 78 acres of land known as Copsewood estate. A year later, Henry Brown, owned and occupied the estate with a house, outbuildings, pleasure grounds and buildings. Also listed were 10 different plantations, four Hosier needs, a Croft, Road Home Close, Knight's Close, Peartree Close, Middle Close, Far and Near Sour Dole, Rowley Mill, Moors, Big and Little Barn Close and Peartree Cockpit. The last, now part of the Grange golf course, partly derived from the popular pastime of cock fighting.
A tollgate and gatehouse stood 300 yards on the Coventry side of the Binley bridge not far from the main entrance to the Grange. In November 1772 the toll keeper, Charles Pinchbeck, was robbed and murdered by John Howe of Brinklow and Thomas Farn of Church Lawford. They were both found guilty, a gallows was erected near the scene of the crime and they were hanged.
Mr A.B.Herbert, Mayor of Coventry in 1838, was living in Copsewood House in 1854.He was followed by Charles Dresser, silk merchant, who was Mayor of Coventry in 1857 and died in Copsewood House in 1862.
On 8th September 1870, Copsewood House was sold by auction at the King's Hotel. The old house was demolished and the present Copsewood Grange was erected on the site in 1872 by James Hart, ribbon manufacturer. The date 1870 is on the lodge at the entrance to the Grange with what seem to be Hart's initials carved in the stone. The estate buildings are said to have cost £5000. Hart's large factory, the Victoria Mills, was in Lancastrian yard in the Burges, the site now being part of the Debenham's complex below the Leofric Hotel. With the decline of the ribbon trade, both the Grange and the factory became known as Hart's Folly. The Grange was sold in 1879 to Mr Richard Moon M.D. of London and North eastern Railway, and he was living there when he was created a baronet. The estate now covered more than 200 acres and include the site of the old Biggin Hall. After Sir R. Moon, a Mrs Mellowdew and her two daughters lived at the Grange - Mellowdew Road is named after her.
Finally the Grange was bought by the GEC for use as a hostel and social centre for its first employees when the manufacture of telephone equipment was transferred from Salford, Lancashire, and was recognised as one of the best staff clubs and was also the clubhouse for the Marconi Golf Club.
The golf club is still in operation and has a new clubhouse, also the course has shrunk to a 9 hole course.
The building is completely trashed and there is not a lot left inside other than debris.
You can still see 2 of the original greens to the right of the building.
A busy night many years ago
The last of these that remains
The lodge building
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I'm surprised this hasn't been kept by the golf club and turned into a hotel dealing with golfing holidays. Excellent pics mate, especially seeing the main room with the stage how it looks now, and the pic seeing how busy it looked in it's heyday.
