Lake View Park to Get Lake?
coventrysociety The misleadingly named Lake View Park is to get some water features at last. Perhaps not a lake, but three new ponds are proposed for the park. Plans for the…
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The Life and Work of George Fox
Saturday 7th September 2024 10:30 am at Coventry Quaker Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry, CV1 4ANAn illustrated talk about the life and work of George Fox, with readings from his…
VLR Progress
City councillors received an update on progress with the Very Light Rail programme last week. Here are the main points. The Track Testing of the revolutionary track design has taken…
A Drovers Road
CovSoc member, Peter James, tells us the interesting history of the Welsh drovers, and the route they took through Coventry. Peter writes…. The Welsh Road was a drovers road running…
Return to the Wedge
A group from the Coventry Society paid a return visit to the Coundon Wedge, courtesy of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. We went to see the Stage Zero restoration project on…
Allesley Hall & The Iliffe Family
CovSoc member, Peter James, tells us a bit about the history of Allesley Hall and the IIiffe family who lived there in the twentyieth century. Peter writes…… Allesley Park was…
The Future of the Cable and Wireless Building?
The former Cable and Wireless College at 320 Westwood Heath Road is perhaps one of the most attractive buildings in Coventry. It won awards when it was first opened, but…
The Treatment
CovSoc Chair, Trevor Cornfoot, reports back on “an interesting visit”! Trevor writes…… Well, who’d have thought that a visit to the local sewage works could be so interesting? The visit…
The William Morris Building
Malvern Carvell published this interesting story about the William Morris Building on the Visit Historic Coventry Facebook page in April 2023. The building, in Gosford Street, is now occupied by…
Another Step on the Loop
A beautiful countryside walking and cycling route near Coventry city centre is a step closer to completion after a key phase of its construction was finished. Works on Phase 2…