Spon End Regeneration Update
coventrysociety Housing association Citizen is working with The Hill Group to demolish Kerry House, Milestone House and Trafalgar House, as part of the first stage of the redevelopment with building work…
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Representing the City!
CovSoc Committee member, Aaron Law, recently represented Coventry at an international conference in Warsaw. The conference celebrated the post-war rebuilding of Warsaw, which like Coventry was devastated during the Second…
First Tram Ride in 85 Years
A group of twenty CovSoc members took a journey that they couldn’t have made during the last 85 years! A tram journey in Coventry! On 13th June, twenty CovSoc members…
Leamington Spa Cultural Quarter
On 12th June 2025, the Coventry Society visited the developing Leamington Cultural Quarter, courtesy of the Leamington Civic Society and the Friends of Leamington Spa Art Gallery. We met at…
George Shaw – Local Hero?
Coventry Society member, Peter Hunter, launches a campaign to hold a George Shaw exhibition in the city. Peter writes……. I get goose pimples looking at the work of George Shaw…
Donald Gibson – Ten Things you Didn’t Know!
Ten things you didn’t know about Donald Gibson, Coventry’s City Architect and designer of the pioneering post-war Coventry Precinct. Historian and Coventry Society committee member, David Fry, tells us…. He…
Jubilee Woodland Plans Abandoned
Following a campaign by the Coventry Society and residents of Keresley, plans for building housing on the Keresley Jubilee Woods have been withdrawn by the Council. Last month, the Coventry…
Emblem of a Bygone Age
The Old Red Telephone Box Coventry Society Member and Chair of the Stoke Local History Group, John Marshall, tells us the interesting story of the classic red telephone box. This…
Statues Return to Charterhouse
Coventry Charterhouse is set to celebrate the return of two 14th-century statues, thanks to the innovative 3D printing capabilities of the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). This collaboration marks a significant…
Peregrine Chicks at Leamington Town Hall
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire has reported that four peregrine falcon chicks have hatched at Leamington Town Hall. Two adult birds have nested in the town’s Grade II-listed building since 2017,…