Something in the Earlsdon Water Perhaps?
coventrysociety CovSoc member, David Porter, remarks on some coincidences concerning a number of architects with Earlsdon connections. David writes….. Earlier in the year, I attended my first meeting of the Coventry…
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War Graves in Walsgrave Cemetery
CovSoc member Tony Auty writes …. Following on from Peter Hunter’s article last month regarding Walsgrave Cemetery I thought you may be interested to learn more about the two war…
CovSoc Response to the Draft Climate Change Strategy
The City Council’s Draft Climate Change Strategy is probably one of the most important documents to be published in the city for many years. The Coventry Society’s response to the…
Strawberries and Horncombs
CovSoc member Peter James tells us a bit about the comb makers of Kenilworth, which included some of his ancestors. Peter writes….. This obituary appeared in the Coventry Herald on…
The Old Guy Goes Jogging – to the site of the former Coventry Power Station, Oxford Canal near Sutton Stop and some environmental vandalism
CovSoc member, Peter Hunter, goes jogging to help improve his mental health and wellbeing. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Peter writes …. This week’s jog was just…
From village ale house to suburban Rose and Crown
Our thanks to the Stoke History Group for this third article from their April newsletter, Jabet’s Ash. John Marshall writes….. The current Rose and Crown pub on Walsgrave Road, situated…
Plaudits for 1960s station
CovSoc member and Chair of the Stoke History Group, John Marshall, has permitted us to re-print this interesting article about Coventry Railway Station that he wrote for the April edition…
A Gift from Carnegie: Dippy the Dinosaur
CovSoc member and Chair of the Stoke History Group, John Marshall, shares a story published in Jabet’s Ash, the group’s newsletter last month. John writes….. Hundreds of children (and adults)…
The Old Guy goes jogging – to Walsgrave Cemetery
CovSoc member, Peter Hunter, writes.. This month, the second in the series of articles inspired by places around Coventry that I visit as I jog around town takes me to…
Percussion: Use and abuse – Nigel Bates
23 May 2023 – 7pm (Doors open at 6.30pm) The Drama Studio, King Henry VIII School, Spencer Road, Coventry The next meeting of our friends at The Arts Society Coventry…