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Just found this. Yes, gone. Demolished in 2012. Still a blank canvas. All to do with the redevelopment of the Shrewsbury Flax MIll site, which is next door. Watch 'Smoke and Steel' on Yesterday/UKTVPlay, Series 1, Episode 6, to see what's going on at the Flax Mill.

I can live with that. I found this as well on Pinterest. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/f3/64/c8f364b7d55e9878e0f9e4c7ff81f543.jpg

Re the photo of the lady in the fur coat. My first thought was Gosta Green, but my second, more considered thought is that the cameraman is standing in Coleshill Street. The bus is coming out of town along Dale End, and the road to the left is Moor Street. The road going across from left to...

Coleshill Chronicle, Friday 20 November 1970: "Marston Green W.I. annual meeting. A gavel was presented to President by members, this was made by Mr.Teague. Elmdon Lane, Marston Green, from wood from the Cock Inn, Elmdon where the building was demolished. "

Coventry Standard, Friday 17 November 1961: "Not the Only Brick They Dropped. THE listing of the Cock Inn Elmdon as being suitable for preservation years after had been pulled down was by no means the only faux pas recently - published ..."

Birmingham Weekly Mercury (Sunday Mercury), Sunday 12 November 1961: "The Old Cock and the Ministry. ...Man from the - Ministry was enchanted by the olde atmosphere of The Cock at Elmdon near Birmingham So much so that the 16th century inn is included in latest list of preservation orders issued...

Coleshill Chronicle, Saturday 02 August 1958: "... Coventry-Birmingham road. And in their path they have swept away one of the district's oldest public houses, The Cock Inn. For 200 years The Cock Inn had stood on top of the hill overlooking the village of Elmdon. It was. I am told, a most...

Birmingham Daily Gazette, Thursday 10 January 1952: "A PUBLIC-HOUSE licensee, Howard Bamford, of the Cock Inn, Coventry Road. Elmdon, whose car was involved in a fatal collision, said at the Solihull inquest yesterday that he could not remember ...

Evening Despatch, Thursday 15 November 1951: "... in collision with a lorry on the Coventry Road at Elmdon today Two passengers wife Brenda and Mr Howard Bamford of the Cock Inn Elmdon were taken to Birmingham Accident Hospital and are on the danger list seriously ill” They were first treated by...

Birmingham Daily Gazette, Friday 01 July 1949: "THE old Cock Inn at Elmdon, 16th century alehouse which boasts a legendary ghost and which was marked for demolition early this year. has been saved just in time. It is understood that an offer by Lees-Hill Aviation (Birmingham) Ltd. of Elmdon...

Birmingham Daily Gazette, Tuesday 09 March 1948: "WITHIN a stone's throw of the gates of Birmingham airport the ancient black and white 16th century Cock Inn, Elmdon. looks forlorn and empty. ..."

Birmingham Daily Gazette, Wednesday 26 November 1947: "THE OLD COCK INN TO-NIGHT. as often before, Time, gents, please. will be called In the latte bars of the Cock Inn. Elmdon. But there will be a different note in the voice of Landlord Bert Chatham—a note of sad finality; and friendly, ghostly...

Coventry Evening Telegraph, Wednesday 23 August 1939: ...following permanent transfers of licences: Cock Inn. Elmdon, from Louisa Pillinger to John Frederick Hodson.