Gigafactory – A step forward?
coventrysociety 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…
2023
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…
The Art of Slow
Architect John Prevc will speak on the subject of “The Art of Slow” at the Coventry Society meeting in October. John is a Coventry Kid, who was brought up in…
The Wrestling Saint
CovSoc member and Chairman of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, contemplates the image of St. Michael wrestling with the Devil in the Sutherland tapestry. Martin writes…. St Michael…
The Thin Blue Line
CovSoc member, Peter James, had a grandfather who was a member of the Coventry Police Force in 1919, which put him onto this story from the period after the end…
Honouring St. Michael
CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, tells us about the historic quarter day of Michaelmas. Martin writes… On September 29th each year we celebrate…