West Midlands Bright Solar Future
coventrysociety Solar power offers the biggest, best, and cheapest means of generating clean green power locally. For the January meeting of the Coventry Society, we have one of the region’s chief…
December 2022
Delia Comes Alive
A couple of CovSoc committee members were fortunate to be given a preview tour of the amazing Delia Derbyshire Building in Cox Street. The Delia Derbyshire building is set to…
The Importance of Albany Road
CovSoc member Peter James writes….. Earlsdon’s development began in 1852 with the building of eight streets. The earliest inhabitants were weavers and watchmakers keen to move from the city slums…
Henry Couchman, Binley Church and Eighteenth Century Drapers’ Hall
CovSoc member, David Fry, tells us about his interesting research into one of Coventry’s architectural puzzles…… My first job in Coventry regularly took me past Binley church, St Bartholomew. It…
Hanukah to be Publicly Celebrated in Coventry for the first time in many years…
Avi Tordjman, from Coventry Synagogue, writes …. “I am pleased to invite you and your family, friends and colleagues to join us celebrating Hanukah this year outside the Council House…
Earlsdon to become Coventry’s first “Liveable Neighbourhood”
Coventry City Council has reported on its website that residents living in Earlsdon are set to be asked their views on plans for Coventry’s first liveable neighbourhood which aims to…
CovSoc Comments on the Revised City Centre South Scheme
Shearer Property Regeneration Ltd. has submitted a revised scheme for the redevelopment of the southern part of the City Centre. The Coventry Society objected to the previous scheme, which was…
New University Open Space
A new public open space is to be created on the site of the former Alan Berry Building opposite Coventry Cathedral. With the development of a new Coventry University building…
Cathedral Monument Collapses
CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams writes … The Bridgeman Memorial on the walls of the Cathedral Ruins collapsed in October. This was quite…
A Plaque for Larkin
The poet Philip Larkin has finally been honoured with a commemorative plaque on the house in Coventry where he was born, just over one hundred years ago. The plaque, commissioned…