The Future of Coventry’s Past – 2
coventrysociety More than 80 representatives and supporters of heritage groups in the city ensured a lively audience for the Coventry Society’s heritage conference in the stunning setting of Drapers Hall on…
Heritage and History
Walking Backwards No 20. Cox Street to Gosford Green
Today we have the final 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…
Christ Church
This month the Coventry Society visited Christ Church in Frankpledge Road, Cheylesmore, courtesy of Reverend Arthur Woo. The original Christ Church was built in 1832 on the site of the…
Walking Backwards No. 19 From Bird Street to Red Lane
Today we have the penultimate 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…
Second Attempt to List The Elephant
The Architects Journal has reported that heritage campaign group, the Twentieth Century Society, has launched a nationwide campaign to get ten ‘wildly inventive and underappreciated’ leisure centres listed. Included in…
Closing Time by Chris Arnot
Following an interesting talk to the Coventry Society by Chris Arnot on 10th October, our Chair, Peter Walters, has written the following review of Chris’s book for the benefit of…
Walking Backwards No 18. St Columba’s close to Poultney Road
Today we have the eighteenth 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…
Walking Backwards No 17. From Coventry Canal Basin to Priestley’s Bridge
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…
Funding Secured for Sherbourne Valley Project
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…
On Tenterhooks
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…