Funding Secured for Whitefriars Gatehouse
coventrysociety A project to restore the historic Whitefriars Gatehouse in Much Park Street has taken another step forward after Historic Coventry Trust secured a major grant to help restore it. The…
Heritage and History
New Digital Library will Celebrate City’s Cultural History
Coventry University has teamed up with Coventry City of Culture Trust, Culture Coventry and other partners to launch Coventry Digital – a new online platform designed to celebrate the city’s…
New Lease of Life for Christchurch Spire
John Marshall reports on the history of one of the city’s ‘three spires’ The vacant space at the base of Christchurch spire is to be filled with a daytime café…
Funding Approved for Guildhall Project
A £1.4m bid to help transform Coventry’s St Mary’s Guildhall into a major visitor attraction has been given the go ahead by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This decision will…
A hundred Years ‘On the Buses’
Our Deputy Chair, Paul Maddocks, reviews “100 years ‘On The Buses’ with the Bailey Family” – A Personal Journey by Roger Bailey. Paul writes…. I was very pleased to get…
Saving the Crown
We have written before about the ongoing fight to save the former Crown cinema, latterly known as The Empire Music venue. A planning application has been submitted for the demolition…
Ron and his Gatehouse
Our Deputy Chair, Paul Maddocks, reflects on the history of Whitefriars Gatehouse and its most notable occupant. The recent article and photograph of Whitefriars Gatehouse in Much Park Street and…
Henry VI in Coventry
This year marks the 600th anniversary of the birth of King Henry VI. As the monarch with the closest connection with Coventry our Committee Member historian Peter Walters tells us…
Update on London Road Cemetery
The Friends of London Road Cemetery have recently published their latest newsletter and a very interesting read it is. The following update is taken from that newsletter with the kind…
Dickens In Coventry
Hundreds of excited fans turned out on 15 December 1857 to hear Charles Dickens, master storyteller of the age, reading from his famous tale, A Christmas Carol, in Coventry. The…