Closing Time by Chris Arnot
coventrysociety Following an interesting talk to the Coventry Society by Chris Arnot on 10th October, our Chair, Peter Walters, has written the following review of Chris’s book for the benefit of…
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Walking Backwards No 18. St Columba’s close to Poultney Road
Today we have the eighteenth episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Controversial development on the A444 refused by Planning Committee
The Coventry Telegraph has reported that a potential rift between Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough and Coventry City Councils has been exposed as a “shoehorned” proposal for a mixed use development…
Coventry University Building to be named after Delia Derbyshire
The Coventry Observer has reported that Coventry University has named its new flagship Faculty of Arts and Humanities building after one of the city’s musical icons, Delia Derbyshire. Delia was…
Walking Backwards No 17. From Coventry Canal Basin to Priestley’s Bridge
Today we have the seventeenth episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Funding Secured for Sherbourne Valley Project
Following a two-year development phase Warwickshire Wildlife Trust have announced that their Sherbourne Valley Project has been awarded additional funding of £1.8million pounds from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Matching…
On Tenterhooks
CovSoc member Peter James shares an important part of Coventry’s history. Woven wool fabric from the loom is fairly open and rough. The Fulling process results in closer fibres making…
Walking Backwards No. 16. Up and down the Foleshill Road
Today we have the sixteenth episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Gosford Green convent school ‘for girls from the silk mills of Coventry’
CovSoc member John Marshall uncovers the story of a 19th century convent at Stoke Old maps of Gosford Green show a curious building on Walsgrave Road, often marked simply as…
Remembering the Chace Hotel
CovSoc member John Marshall reflects on the history of the Chace Hotel and offers some personal reminiscences Work has begun on the transformation of an historic Coventry building which served…