Our Heritage, Our Future
coventrysociety More than fifty people attended the Coventry Society’s third heritage conference at the end of October. The conference was held at the Litten Tree Building in Warwick Road on Saturday…
October 2023
Coventry Peace Festival Returns
Coventry’s annual Peace Festival returns this November to celebrate the city’s ongoing work of promoting peace, tolerance and friendship. The festival highlights Coventry’s role as a City of Peace and…
Taiwo Calls for Planning Reform
The Coventry Observer has reported that Coventry North West MP Taiwo Owatemi has called for more to be done to create a planning system ‘fit for this century’ after the…
Abbotts Park Gets the Go Ahead
A Government Inspector has granted planning permission for the proposed Abbotts Park development on the former gasworks site adjoining the Ring Road. Abbotts Park is the 5.5-acre derelict former gas…
Gigafactory – A step forward?
The City Council has reported that it is in advanced discussions with several leading Asian battery manufacturers about future investment at the Coventry site. The Council claims that the West…
The Crooked House – a warning to us all!
The Coventry Society abhors the destruction of the Crooked House public house, along with the obvious inadequacies of current measures designed to protect the historic environment, highlighted by this incident.…
The Art of Slow
For our October 2023 meeting, we had an interesting and challenging presentation from CovSoc member and Architect John Prevc on the subject “The Art of Slow”. John told us that…
Performance Art
The October Arts Society Coventry (TASC) lecture will be given by Helen Oakden, whose lecture early this year on Black Artists in Britain since 1960 went down very well with…
Robert Glover and the Coventry Martyrs
CovSoc member Peter James has been researching his ancestors and came across some interesting information about the Coventry martyrs. Peter writes….. My maternal grandmother Edith Haddon grew up in Foleshill…
A Cut-Out Model of Coventry Cathedral
CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, tells us this interesting story from the 1960s. Martin writes…. One of the souvenirs produced in 1962 to…