The Coventry Telegraph has reported that a potential rift between Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough and Coventry City Councils has been exposed as a “shoehorned” proposal for a mixed use development…
The Coventry Observer has reported that Coventry University has named its new flagship Faculty of Arts and Humanities building after one of the city’s musical icons, Delia Derbyshire. Delia was…
Today we have the seventeenth episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Following a two-year development phase Warwickshire Wildlife Trust have announced that their Sherbourne Valley Project has been awarded additional funding of £1.8million pounds from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Matching…
CovSoc member Peter James shares an important part of Coventry’s history. Woven wool fabric from the loom is fairly open and rough. The Fulling process results in closer fibres making…
Today we have the sixteenth episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
CovSoc member John Marshall uncovers the story of a 19th century convent at Stoke Old maps of Gosford Green show a curious building on Walsgrave Road, often marked simply as…
CovSoc member John Marshall reflects on the history of the Chace Hotel and offers some personal reminiscences Work has begun on the transformation of an historic Coventry building which served…
Today we have the fifteenth episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Social entrepreneur Alan Denyer has sent an update on what’s happening at the LTB Alan writes “Thought I’d share a few updates, as it’s now 12 months since we first…
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