This was also the site of the Sandy Lane power station, which has now been turned into a mixed use residential and business development - Electric Wharf.

Possibly Radford's greatest historical claim to fame comes from its centrality in the birth of the British motor car industry.

[5] It included a red-brick office block with stone banding on Sandy Lane built 1907–08, and an electricity power house which was added in 1907.

[5] Soon after, the company changed its name to Daimler and shortly before the First World War, they moved to a new factory at the Lydgate Road/Sandy Lane Junction.

Between the world wars, and for a short time only, Radford was home to an aerodrome situated close to the Daimler factory, the site of which is now taken by Joseph Cash Primary School and the Coventrians RFC.

With the exception of the office block on Sandy Lane and the electricity power house, Motor Mills was destroyed in the blitz.

[5] On 19 November 1940, a landmine suspended by parachute was dropped by the Luftwaffe and exploded above ground, destroying St Nicholas' Church, leaving only one course of stones standing.

The site of Radford railway station has been developed into a block of flats; Sandy Lane Power Station, which became offices for the East Midlands Electricity Board, has been redeveloped into Electric Wharf, a mixed-use site incorporating residential buildings and public art; and the former Daimler works are now a residential area known as Daimler Green.

Philip Larkin, widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century, was born in Radford at 2, Poultney Road.

[8] Another former resident of Radford was England boxer Errol Christie who went on to be European champion in the 1980s and a regular fixture on ITV Fight Night.