Cleaning Up the Ring Road!
Coventry’s ring road is getting a deep clean over the coming weeks, brightening and refreshing its concrete fascia cladding. The work began on Monday 12 April and is expected to…
Coventry’s ring road is getting a deep clean over the coming weeks, brightening and refreshing its concrete fascia cladding. The work began on Monday 12 April and is expected to…
Three floors of vacant space about the Litten Tree Pub is being transformed into a new pop up arts venue in time for the City of Culture year. This is…
In December we reported on the plans for the Richard the Second Loop Line. This is a two mile cycle – pedestrian route along the old loop railway line from…
A new musical work has been commissioned by the Friends of Coventry Cathedral as a contribution to Coventry’s year as the UK City of Culture. The commission is of new…
Over the past year the Coventry Society has had to adapt, very rapidly, to new ways of working. Covid requirements have resulted in all meetings being held online. These meetings…
As part of City of Culture, the City Council is commissioning new public artwork intended to address climate change issues. My Carbon Family is a ‘family’ of sculptures commissioned to…
Historian and CovSoc member David Fry tells us about one of the city’s medieval gates. A few coincidences have prompted this bit of research into one of Coventry’s lost gates:…
In 2015 The Archers’ Lynda and Robert Snell are making a garden at Ambridge Hall as a memorial to the victims of the village’s floods that year. The garden’s centrepiece…
Our Vice Chair Paul Maddocks is reminded of a bare faced protest at the Cathedral. Paul writes: Recently a lad woke up to find his mate had put a ‘D’…
As the Daimler Powerhouse continues to take shape, Imagineer are bringing the history of the building to life through restoring elements of the original building and through encouraging people who…