Not a Happy New Year for Piles Coppice
coventrysociety News from Ann Wilson, Coventry Tree Warden Network (courtesy of CAN Newsletter) Thanks to the intervention of our MP we managed to have a virtual meeting with the Forestry Commission…
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What will the New Year bring?
This article is re-printed from the newsletter of Coventry Action for Neighbourhoods, courtesy of Paul Maddocks. We all know that the Coventry City of Culture has many more months to…
The Council Budget – 2022/23
The Council’s Cabinet has opened consultation on the provisional budget for 2022 / 2023. The consultation response and the Government Grant settlement will all come into play before the budget…
A Story from Phoenix City 2021
An incident from the early adult life of CovSoc founder member, Paul Maddocks, led to a scene in a City of Culture arts video currently on display in the Herbert.…
The Future of the Priory Visitor Centre
The City Council is moving forward with plans for the re-use of the Priory Visitor Centre and the Priory Undercrofts after several years of the buildings being vacant and deteriorating.…
The Mayor and the Social Anthropologist
CovSoc Member Peter James tells us the interesting story of a well known Coventry character and his step daughter. Malcolm Kenneth Pridmore was born in October 1869 in Foleshill to…
Coventry Railway Station update
The new station building, multi-storey car park, and taxi drop off point at the Coventry Railway station will now open in the New Year. Over £80 million has been invested…
ReTurner Prize 2021 – Reusing Coventry Empty Buildings
Our founder member Paul Maddocks wrote this article for the CAN (Community Action for Neighbourhoods) newsletter. Paul playfully asks whether there should be an award for the restoration of some…
Support Tree Wardens’ Drive to Plant Cherry Trees in Caludon Park
Our friends the Coventry Tree Wardens have put in a grant application to plant a cherry avenue to brighten up Caludon Park. This application is dependant on public support. Covid…
The Hospital of St. John
Our Chair, Peter Walters, told us the history of the Old Grammar School at the last CovSoc meeting on Monday 13th December. We had hoped to give this talk in…