Turner Prize and Terry Hall bolster Cov’s “glimmer of hope” culture festival
coventrysociety Coventry will host the Turner Prize, a south Asian film festival and a music festival put together by the Specials’ Terry Hall during its city of culture year. The year…
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The Mystery of the Banner
The team at the Herbert are asking Coventry people to let them know about a banner which has been discovered in a store room on Cook Street
Pool Meadow Get Upgrade for City of Culture
Coventry’s Pool Meadow bus station is to get a £1.5 million upgrade which will include eye-catching artwork and murals for the 2021 City of Culture. The bus station’s facelift will…
Coventry Heritage at Risk
Three Conservation Areas and 20 other historic sites in Coventry have been designated by Historic England as being “At Risk* in the latest Heritage at Risk Register. Historic England published…
CovSoc’s Response to the Planning White Paper
The Government White Paper “Planning for the Future” was published in August and consultation ended yesterday. The White Paper proposes the most significant changes to the Planning System in England…
Five Parks Win Green Flag Award
Five parks in Coventry have been awarded the prestigious national Green Flag Award. The winning parks are the War Memorial Park, Coombe Country Park, Longford Park, Allesley Park and Caludon…
1970 – The Year We Were Born
The Coventry Society was formed as the Coventry Civic Amenity Society fifty years ago this year. We were wondering what else happened during that year. In transport news, a Boeing…
The Free Men of Coventry
There are many Coventry Freemen. It is an honour granted to people who have completed a qualifying apprenticeship in the city. Coventry’s history goes back for hundreds of years and…
CovSoc AGM Goes Online
The Coventry Society held its first online AGM on Monday 12th October. In the unusual circumstances of the Coronavirus pandemic we postponed our AGM in April. We had hoped to…
Alpha House that Jacks Built
Our Deputy Chair, Paul Maddocks, has been researching one of Coventry’s “firsts”! Over the past few months I have been looking at some of Coventry’s ‘Firsts’ from the city with…