MPX5097388: Entertainment: 22 year old singer/actress Erika Raffael has appeared in several television plays and appeared with Ian McShane in the film "Tom Lynn". Erika was 'discovered' at the Cannes Film Festival and has appeared in several British films. She will be appearing in London Weekend Television's "Never a Cross Word" in the episode "Old Flame" to be screened on 27th December. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5097397: The last of the Vernon Street triangle top shops, Hillfields, Coventry, soon to disappear as demolition contractors move in. The properties are the remains of a triangle of 67 three-storeyed houses built in the 19th century, in which the top floors were used as weavers' workshops. Shafting ran through the top storeys linking to a communal steam engine. The row of houses about to be demolished were earmarked for preservation, as an example of the tops shops era but Coventry City Council eventually decided that they could not be usefully modernised at a reasonable cost, and there are good examples of top shops at the firm of J. and J. Cash, Foleshill, which is preserved. 16th January 1973 / Bridgeman Images