A different vision for Coventry In May 2020, in the depth of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Coventry Society published a call-to-arms ‘Creating a different vision for Coventry’. The paper identified…
Richard Sadler was probably Coventry’s pre-eminent post-war photographer, capturing life in and around the city for sixty years. Born in Hillfields in 1927, he spent much of his youth unwell,…
It’s hardly surprising that Brownshill Green residents are up in arms over the prospect of expanding their rural fringe hamlet with as many as 475 homes. No doubt the residents…
The following story was reported in the Coventry Herald in October 1850: NOVEL TRANSPLANTATION. “A singular scene was exhibited through a line of the principal streets in this city, on…
Twenty Things you Ought to Know About Coventry and Art and Architecture by Peter Walters, CovSoc Committee Member 1. A stained-glass image of a blonde-haired woman, discovered during recent archaeological…
The Coventry Society supports the Council’s plan to close High Street to vehicle traffic and we hope that it will contribute to a longer term plan to reduce the traffic…
Not another lock-down quiz question but one of Paul Maddocks’ interesting tales! Paul writes: I have had a good life, a blessed life you could say, I have met many…
Fifty years ago, Kirby House in Little Park Street Coventry was threatened with demolition. The campaign group that sought to save it became the Coventry Society, enjoying its half centenary…
Archaeologists working on the £8m restoration of The Charterhouse have uncovered rare 14th century remains that shed new light on life in historic Coventry. The Grade I listed former Carthusian…
Post the coronavirus crisis we will all wish for ‘normality’, a return to the reassurance of the way things have been. But though we might want a return to the…
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