Peregrines Delay Work on Spire
coventrysociety The discovery of a peregrine falcon nest on the Cathedral tower has halted work on the Cathedral steeple. The nest contains a single egg. The work on the steeply relates…
Heritage and History
City Model Finds a Home
Coventry Society member Peter Garbett has used his lockdown at home more productively than many of us. He has created a huge model of the City of Coventry as it…
Charterhouse Wall Painting Restored
The only surviving wall painting in a Carthusian monastery in England has been restored as part of that major conservation project at the Charterhouse. A large wall painting depicting the…
Chapel at London Road Cemetery Approved for Office Use
Planning permission has been granted for a change of use of the Nonconformist Chapel at London Road Cemetery from a place of worship (D1) to Office Use (B3). The proposed…
Relief for Lovers of Old Hall
This newspaper story is dated 29th November 1958. The text reads: “Admirers of St. Mary’s Hall, who were taken aback by a recent suggestion that a secondary staircase should be…
The Estate Builders
In 80 Years they developed 100,000 building plots in Coventry – Who were they? CovSoc Historian David Fry answers the question! If you live in a Coventry house that was…
The story of St George
by David McGrory, courtesy of Coventry City Council In the words of an ancient poem preserved in Bishop Percy’s, ‘Reliques of Old English Poetry, ‘St. George he was for England.’…
Severn Trent Help Fund the Richard II Loop Line
In December we reported on the plans for the Richard the Second Loop Line. This is a two mile cycle – pedestrian route along the old loop railway line from…
Bishop Gate – the old and the new!
Historian and CovSoc member David Fry tells us about one of the city’s medieval gates. A few coincidences have prompted this bit of research into one of Coventry’s lost gates:…
Beyer – A Man of Letters
In 2015 The Archers’ Lynda and Robert Snell are making a garden at Ambridge Hall as a memorial to the victims of the village’s floods that year. The garden’s centrepiece…