CovSoc Visit to Charterhouse
coventrysociety The Coventry Society visited the Charterhouse on Thursday 13th July 2023. Peter Walters, Chair of the Society, writes….. Just three months after opening to the public, Coventry’s newest visitor attraction…
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Grant for Spencer Park Pavilion
The Coventry Observer has reported that a bid to save Spencer Park Pavilion and give it a new lease of life for the community has received a cash boost totalling…
Local Plan Review
The City Council planning Team has taken a report to Cabinet to seek approval to publish a draft Issues and Options Paper for consultation. This is the first stage of…
The Old Gasworks
Archaeology Warwickshire held an Open Day at the former Abbott’s Lane Gasworks site last Friday. The dig is revealing a lot about the one of the oldest gasworks sites in…
The Black Bull Inn
CovSoc member Peter James tells us the fascinating story of the Black Bull Inn in Smithford Street. Peter writes… Smithford Street was a thoroughfare for over 800 years connecting Broadgate…
Taking a bet on the Gigafactory
Cllr. Jim O’Boyle, the Cabinet Member for Jobs, Regeneration and Climate Change, will be deciding whether to invest a further half a million pounds into the Gigafactory at a meeting…
Chapelfields Bakeries
CovSoc member Peter James grew up in Chapelfields and can remember Pails Bakery delivering bread with a horse drawn van in the late fifties. Peter writes…. Crown Steam Bakery was…
Boy out of the city
Coventry born Declan Bennet (EastEnders’ Charlie Cotton) brings his one person show to the LTB Showrooms this summer before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2023. This raw…
Coventry Pageant and Cathedral Festival 1962
CovSoc former Vice Chair, Terry Kenny, reminds us of the pageant that accompanied the consecration of Coventry Cathedral. Terry writes…. In 1962 Coventry Cathedral was consecrated amid great pageantry. To…
Roof Falling Off
The Coventry Society is very concerned about the condition of the Old Grammar School, which is shedding roof tiles only a few years after a £4.5 million restoration scheme. The…