Jo Jacques chose….

Butcher Row
Around 1930
By Florence Weston

Butchers Lane stood where the flower beds in front of Holy Trinity Church are now, and was knocked down in the 1930s to make way for Trinity Street. So few people realise that our predominately concrete city was once a beautiful collection of winding medieval lanes. I love seeing pictures of medieval Coventry, and find it amazing that this crazy, higgledly piggledy street was here in Coventry less than 80 years ago.
 
Jo Jacques is Marketing & Communications Assistant at the Herbert

What the curator says:
Butcher Row
Around 1930
By Florence Weston, collected in 2003

Florence Weston moved to Coventry from Battersea in 1907. She studied at the Coventry School of Art and became a founder member of the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists. She regularly took painting holidays abroad to Brittany, Italy, Tangiers and Morocco, but her best known paintings are of old Coventry. Butcher Row was a favourite scene and she painted it several times.

In the medieval period Butcher Row was home to the city's butchers. Trades were often grouped together in streets which bore their names. It was a popular subject for artists and photographers until it was demolished in 1937.