Coventry and Climate Change
coventrysociety Climate Change and Coventry For our March meeting CovSoc are focussing on climate change and our city. We have two speakers: Tony McNally is Managing Director of Climate Change Solutions…
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Creative Writing Workshop
On Saturday 12th March, writer and academic Ruth Livesey is going to hold a creative writing workshop in response to artefacts and women’s stories found in the Coventry Archives and…
Lost Coventry by David McGrory
Our founder member Paul Maddocks writes…. I have been very lucky to be able to have a special preview of the latest book by David McGrory, it’s the twenty seventh…
New Approach to Potholes
Potholes in Coventry will be repaired and fixed permanently in super quick time after the Council’s highways service purchased JCB’s revolutionary pothole machine. The PotholePro can repair a pothole in…
Historic Coventry Trust Tours – Ventures with Verity
Join local blue badge guide Verity for a guided walking tour of Historic Coventry Trust’s city centre sites. Tours will running regularly on the first Sunday afternoon of every month.…
Coventry – A Great Place!
For our February meeting we were pleased to have Jacqui Ibbotson, the Programme Manager of the Great Place scheme, report back on the success of the programme. She told us…
Earlsdon Library
The Coventry Society held its February meeting at the recently refurbished Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library. Our Chair, Peter Walters, writes…. It’s a far cry from the ruthless business frontier of…
This is Then
Visit the LTB Showrooms for an exhibition showing a visual record of the Coventry music scene, 1979-1981. The images are by Mark Osbourne and the exhibition runs from 18th February…
The Grand Complication
CovSoc member Peter James writes….. Joseph Player & Son was formed in 1858, Joseph having been born in London c.1832. The company gained a reputation for high quality and introduced…
The Nuclear Threat
The Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation is organising a public meeting next month on the threat to the world from nuclear weapons. The public meeting will be held…