City Centre South – Decision Day
coventrysociety “Heritage assets are a precious thing – and when they’re gone, they’re gone!” As Coventry’s Planning Committee today decides whether to approve the controversial City Centre South scheme we can…
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Cleaning Up the Ring Road!
Coventry’s ring road is getting a deep clean over the coming weeks, brightening and refreshing its concrete fascia cladding. The work began on Monday 12 April and is expected to…
Litten Tree Blooms
Three floors of vacant space about the Litten Tree Pub is being transformed into a new pop up arts venue in time for the City of Culture year. This is…
Severn Trent Help Fund the Richard II Loop Line
In December we reported on the plans for the Richard the Second Loop Line. This is a two mile cycle – pedestrian route along the old loop railway line from…
New Music at the Cathedral for City of Culture
A new musical work has been commissioned by the Friends of Coventry Cathedral as a contribution to Coventry’s year as the UK City of Culture. The commission is of new…
Coventry Society – Annual Report 2021
Over the past year the Coventry Society has had to adapt, very rapidly, to new ways of working. Covid requirements have resulted in all meetings being held online. These meetings…
My Carbon Family
As part of City of Culture, the City Council is commissioning new public artwork intended to address climate change issues. My Carbon Family is a ‘family’ of sculptures commissioned to…
Bishop Gate – the old and the new!
Historian and CovSoc member David Fry tells us about one of the city’s medieval gates. A few coincidences have prompted this bit of research into one of Coventry’s lost gates:…
Beyer – A Man of Letters
In 2015 The Archers’ Lynda and Robert Snell are making a garden at Ambridge Hall as a memorial to the victims of the village’s floods that year. The garden’s centrepiece…
Locked in Protest
Our Vice Chair Paul Maddocks is reminded of a bare faced protest at the Cathedral. Paul writes: Recently a lad woke up to find his mate had put a ‘D’…