I dropped onto this site by chance and decided to sign up as I have some info to add that 'May' be of help. Al in Vane. When I was at 'Nicho' in the 1960s, the cross country route was across the school fields and along the canal to the Marston Lane bridge, over the bridge, then out across the fields and back toward the canal, coming back onto Bulkington Lane (Or Bulkington Road as it is now called) at the Navigation bridge. Some of the lads would take a shortcut along the canal towpath straight to the 'Navi'. The only pub along that stretch was the Navigation. The route may have changed after I left 'Nicho'. The New Inn was Bedworth Hill which was the next canal bridge toward Coventry. The pub was demolished in about 1960. Arthur Shaw, his wife Ida and daughter Jennifer moved to The Three Horeshoes pub in Heath Road Nuneaton, and Arthur later took over as Landlord at the Weaver Arm in Ryton, Bulkington. There is a booklet in the Bedworth Library 'My Bedworth Memories at Speedwell Farm & Downing Crescent' written by Vilma Chrichlow, compiled by Tony Davis, that mentions Arthur Shaw and many other past characters from Bedworth Hill.
