Crafty Coventry
coventrysociety Creative Lives are teaming up with Heritage Crafts for a programme of events and on-air coverage of crafts in Coventry, to coincide with Coventry City of Culture. The initiative is…
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Gigafactory gets green light
Last week the proposed battery manufacturing Gigafactory on Coventry Airport was given the green light by both Coventry City Council and Warwick District Council. Outline Planning applications were approved in…
Plaques for The Firs
On Friday 14th January a host of people joined our Lord Mayor to commemorate a number of lives associated with the Firs on Kenilworth Road. The Firs is a Georgian…
Jag 2.0 – A Plug and Play Venue
CovSoc members were invited to visit an exciting new facility at the Belgrade Theatre on Monday 20th January 2022. We were fortunate to meet the new Artistic Director of the…
Not a Happy New Year for Piles Coppice
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…
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…