Stoke Aldermoor is a suburban community in south-eastern

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, West Midlands,

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. An area of Stoke Aldermoor consisting of a small estate alongside the north-east of Pinley Fields is called Pinley. It is bordered by the River Sowe and the

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, and the suburbs of Stoke to the north, Whitley to the south-west and Ernesford Grange to the east.

Industry

During the

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, the Rootes No 1 Shadow Factory was located in Stoke Aldermoor.

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scout cars, tank engines, truck engines and aero engines were produced at the factory. Rootes also maintained a training school in the area. The factory was more recently used as the

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UK head office until they relocated to new purpose-built premises a short distance away in Pinley in 2008.

Politics

Stoke Aldermoor sits in the

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ward of Lower Stoke, which has historically been represented by Labour, consistently and safely from the mid-2000s. In red you can see the sewer used

In popular culture

Stoke Aldermoor is where the famous

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sewer chase was shot for the film ''

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'' (1969). The Minis were lowered into the newly built sewers on the outskirts of Stoke Aldermoor and driven to the Finham Sewage Works.. In the television series ''

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'', exterior shots around Daisy and Onslow's

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were filmed in Stoke Aldermoor.

References

External links

* {{commons category-inline, Stoke Aldermoor Suburbs of Coventry