Stoke Aldermoor

Stoke Aldermoor

Stoke Aldermoor is a suburb in Coventry, West Midlands, England. An area of Stoke Aldermoor consisting a small estate alongside the northeast of Pinley Fields is called Pinley.

In the television series "Keeping up Appearances", exterior shots around Daisy and Onslow's council house were filmed in Stoke Aldermoor.

During World War II, the Rootes No 1 Shadow Factory was located in Stoke Aldermoor. Four-wheel drive scout cars, tank engines, truck engines and aero engines were produced at the factory. [cite book|author=N. J. Baldwin|title=The World Guide to Automobile Manufacturers|year=1987|publisher=Facts on File|isbn=0816018448] Rootes also maintained a training school in the area. ["The Light Car", 1912, Temple Press]

Stoke Aldermoor is also known locally in Hollywood movie fame as the place where the famous Mini sewer chase was shot for the film "The Italian Job", the mini's were lowered into the newly built sewers on the outskirts of Stoke Aldermoor and driven to the Finham Sewage Works.

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