The right hand side of the view shows the Vernon Street portion of the Vernon Street triangle, formed by buildings contained within Vernon Street, Berry Street and Brook Street. This triangle of sixty-seven cottage homes were erected in the late 1850's for Eli Green, a wealthy ribbon manufacturer. A central steam engine provided the power for the shafting to operate the looms in the top shops, the shafting passing from cottage to cottage down the whole length of the buildings. It was the largest example of this type of development before the crash of the industry in 1860. It had enabled independent weavers to operate only paying rent on their cottage and the power that they used. This group of buildings, as important to Coventry's industrial history as those built by the Cash brothers at Radford at about the same time, was demolished in the early 1970s.
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