Tile Mural Destroyed
coventrysociety The Coventry Society is disappointed to learn that post-war artwork located in an underpass near Croft Road has not been saved from destruction. The artwork was in the form of…
Heritage and History
The Importance of Albany Road
CovSoc member Peter James writes….. Earlsdon’s development began in 1852 with the building of eight streets. The earliest inhabitants were weavers and watchmakers keen to move from the city slums…
Henry Couchman, Binley Church and Eighteenth Century Drapers’ Hall
CovSoc member, David Fry, tells us about his interesting research into one of Coventry’s architectural puzzles…… My first job in Coventry regularly took me past Binley church, St Bartholomew. It…
Cathedral Monument Collapses
CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams writes … The Bridgeman Memorial on the walls of the Cathedral Ruins collapsed in October. This was quite…
A Plaque for Larkin
The poet Philip Larkin has finally been honoured with a commemorative plaque on the house in Coventry where he was born, just over one hundred years ago. The plaque, commissioned…
Only Equalled by Kensington Palace
CovSoc member, and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, tells us the fascinating story of 11 Priory Row. Martin writes…. Last week I attended a Cathedral committee…
The Stevens Family
CovSoc member, Peter James, tells us the story of the famous Coventry family who turned from silk weaving to housing developers. Thomas Stevens was born in Foleshill in 1828 and…
What links R2D2 to a Coventry Electric cab company?
CovSoc founder member and former Chair, Paul Maddocks, has written the following article for the Historic Coventry website and we re-print it here with their kind permission. A good fiend…
The Future of Coventry’s Past – 2
More than 80 representatives and supporters of heritage groups in the city ensured a lively audience for the Coventry Society’s heritage conference in the stunning setting of Drapers Hall on…
Walking Backwards No 20. Cox Street to Gosford Green
Today we have the final 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…