Book Review – City of Coventry Municipal Handbook 1955-56
coventrysociety In the days before the Internet people got their information from books! The Municipal Handbook is a combination of reference book and pocket diary. Coming in at 6 by 3½…
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Very Light Rail in Coventry
It is perhaps rather bad timing to be examining the Council’s plans for very light rail when the Government is advising everyone to avoid using public transport. But we have…
CovSoc Statement on the Murder of George Floyd
Following the recent tragic murder of George Floyd, Vincent Hammersley, Chair of the Coventry Society has issued the following public statement on behalf of the Coventry Society: “One of the…
City Centre South – the Coventry Society’s criteria for a sustainable city centre
A different vision for Coventry In May 2020, in the depth of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Coventry Society published a call-to-arms ‘Creating a different vision for Coventry’. The paper identified…
Dr Richard Sadler, Photographer, (1927-2020) RIP
Richard Sadler was probably Coventry’s pre-eminent post-war photographer, capturing life in and around the city for sixty years. Born in Hillfields in 1927, he spent much of his youth unwell,…
Proposed development at Brownshill Green
It’s hardly surprising that Brownshill Green residents are up in arms over the prospect of expanding their rural fringe hamlet with as many as 475 homes. No doubt the residents…
The Beech Tree on Wheels
The following story was reported in the Coventry Herald in October 1850: NOVEL TRANSPLANTATION. “A singular scene was exhibited through a line of the principal streets in this city, on…
Coventry – Art and Architecture.
Twenty Things you Ought to Know About Coventry and Art and Architecture by Peter Walters, CovSoc Committee Member 1. A stained-glass image of a blonde-haired woman, discovered during recent archaeological…
Social distancing space on High Street
The Coventry Society supports the Council’s plan to close High Street to vehicle traffic and we hope that it will contribute to a longer term plan to reduce the traffic…
What links a landed Spitfire and a child’s pushchair?
Not another lock-down quiz question but one of Paul Maddocks’ interesting tales! Paul writes: I have had a good life, a blessed life you could say, I have met many…