Bedworth Almshouses
coventrysociety Discovering the Bedworth Almshouses – Nearly Two Centuries of History With the Coventry Society preparing to visit the Bedworth Almshouses, there has never been a better time to discover one…
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Sarah Siddons 1755 – 1831
Historian and CovSoc member, Peter James, tells us about the life of another actress with Coventry and Warwickshire associations. Peter writes….. Early Life Sarah Kemble was born on 5th July…
‘After Bunney’ – A Book Review
Coventry Society founder member Paul Maddocks has been reading a new book about a local artist and the search for his long-lost family relative. His review follows. I have just…
Keresley Development Refused
Plans to build 350 new homes in Keresley have been refused, following objections by the Coventry Society and local people. The applicant, Richborough, submitted outline plans for the development of…
Towards a New Cathedral
It has been 75 years since Basil Spence’s winning design for Coventry Cathedral was first unveiled to the public. His drawings came to symbolise the emergence of a new, modern…
Small Balconies, Big Questions
With the construction of hundreds of new apartments in City Centre South, Spon End Regeneration, the old Gasworks site and other sites in the city, the issue of high rise…
Visit to Temple Balsall
Twenty CovSoc members were fortunate to have a tour of Temple Balsall on Wednesday 22nd July 2026. Temple Balsall is a tiny hamlet in rural Warwickshire, with a history and…
Peeping Tom – No 1
CovSoc Secretary, John Payne, has been reading the first edition of Peeping Tom, the magazine of the Coventry Civic Amenity Society, published In the Spring of 1983. There are some…
Do conservation areas stifle development?
Two Coventry Society committee members (Tim Brown and John Prevc) recently attended the first of a series of ‘City Talks’ organised by Design Midlands. It is celebrating its new base…
Whatever Happened to All Saint’s Church?
John Marshall explores the history of a Coventry church and the reasons for its eventual demise A PARISH of All Saints still exists in the Stoke area of Coventry but…