Wrothsilver
coventrysociety In the run up to Martinmas, CovSoc member Peter James tells us about the ancient ceremony of Wrothsilver. Peter writes….. Knightlow Hundred covers a large area stretching from Arley in…
Heritage and History
Coventry Jewish Watchmakers
For 150 years Coventry was the cynosure of British watchmaking. From the 1850’s, as the city’s watchmaking renown became world-wide, skilled immigrant Jewish watchmakers, from Bavaria and Prussia, added to…
HAZ Project Completed
Work on Coventry’s Hight Street Heritage Action Zone has come to an end this month. The regeneration of one of Coventry city centre’s final intact historic streets has now been…
Our Heritage, Our Future
More than fifty people attended the Coventry Society’s third heritage conference at the end of October. The conference was held at the Litten Tree Building in Warwick Road on Saturday…
The Crooked House – a warning to us all!
The Coventry Society abhors the destruction of the Crooked House public house, along with the obvious inadequacies of current measures designed to protect the historic environment, highlighted by this incident.…
Robert Glover and the Coventry Martyrs
CovSoc member Peter James has been researching his ancestors and came across some interesting information about the Coventry martyrs. Peter writes….. My maternal grandmother Edith Haddon grew up in Foleshill…
The Thin Blue Line
CovSoc member, Peter James, had a grandfather who was a member of the Coventry Police Force in 1919, which put him onto this story from the period after the end…
Honouring St. Michael
CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, tells us about the historic quarter day of Michaelmas. Martin writes… On September 29th each year we celebrate…
Heritage Open Day at Drapers’ Hall
The Coventry Society hosted a Heritage Open Day event at Drapers’ Hall on Sunday 17th September 2023, courtesy of Historic Coventry Trust. Over 370 people visited the Hall to inspect…
Visit to Holy Family Church
In a second article, CovSoc founder member, Paul Maddocks tells us about Holy Family Church, which the Society visited last month. Paul writes….. On 24th August we visited Holy Family…