This home was built in 1931 by its owner Cecil Knox, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for an outstanding act of bravery in the First World War in 1918.<br /><br />On 22 March 1918 at Tugny-et-Pont, Aisne, France, Second Lieutenant Knox was entrusted with the demolition of 12 bridges. He successfully carried out this task, but in the case of one steel girder bridge the time fuse failed to act, and without hesitation he ran to the bridge under heavy fire, and when the enemy were actually on it, he tore away the time fuse and lit the instantaneous fuse, to do which he had to get under the bridge. As a practical civil engineer, Second Lieutenant Knox undoubtedly realised the grave risk he took in doing this.<br /><br />Cecil Knox was born in Nuneaton in 1889, the son of James and Florence Knox. The family were prominent in civil and railway engineering and had become affluent through their majority shareholding in the Haunchwood Brick and Tile Company. <br /><br />In 1940 he commanded the Nuneaton Company of the Home Guard before becoming a father to his only child in 1941.He died in 1943 from a motorbike accident.<br />(Wikipedia)<br /><br />In recent days the home is owned by a clothing and footwear businessman.<br />The property was empty for a while and targeted by vandals. In June 2021 it was set ablaze in an apparent arson.<br /><br />Filmed on Dji action4<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrixMwvKhOg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrixMwvKhOg</a>