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The Coventry Society Cares About Our Heritage And History

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Coventry Society Proud of our city – striving to make it better! Campaign for a quality Coventry.

Our visit was hosted by Alan Dyer, the Chair of the Coventry Canal Basin Trust. The Trust was set up in the late 1970s to promote the protection, restoration and management of the historic warehouses and has been doing just that for forty years. Discover your local listed buildings and places Introducing some of Coventry’s most historic sites, included in the National Heritage List for England. Some of these captions have been summarised by AI. Click through for the official List entry. Our Chair, Peter Walters, told us the history of the Old Grammar School at the last CovSoc meeting on Monday 13th December. We had hoped to give this talk in the OGS but unfortunately it wasn’t to be. Peter writes.. An unlikely partnership between sworn enemies in early medieval Coventry has left the modern city []

Church Memorials - Coventry Society

Work on Coventry’s Hight Street Heritage Action Zone has come to an end this month. The regeneration of one of Coventry city centre’s final intact historic streets has now been completed. The programme to restore or replace 20 shopfronts on Burges and Hales Street has been carried out by Historic Coventry Trust, with support from [] Homepage » Companies Company War Memorials British Thompson-Houston Co Ltd Dedicated to: The employees of British Thompson-Houston (Coventry) who died in the war. History: This was originally erected in the British Thompson-Houston factory in Alma Street. Current Location: Royal Warwicks Club, Tower Street. Coventry Chain Company Dedicated to: The 47

Plans to knock down 400-year-old Coventry building

To celebrate The Co-operative Bank joining the Coventry Building Society family, we’re hosting an exciting prize draw for our members*.

Coventry’s changing fortunes It wasn’t until the 16th Century that Coventry’s economy fell into crisis marking the beginning of a cycle of boom and slump that has characterised the city’s history right up to the present day. During the Civil War, the city wall helped to guard Royalist prisoners – and gave us the term ’sent to Coventry‘. An historic building on Stoke Green, parts of which date back more than 400 years, could be knocked down to make way for a new house. Plans have been lodged with Coventry City Council to demolish Records suggest that the house, which has most recently been used as a care home, was built in about 1622 with extensive alterations and additions in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the 19th century it was divided into two properties, one known as The Laurels and the other as Ivy Cotage. But for much of the 20th century the two houses were known as The Laurels and The

Researcher Stephen Baird reached out to the Coventry Society to try to find other recordings and more information. The Phono Post Library at Princeton University is a unique collection that focuses on sound recordings, particularly those related to the history of recorded sound and its cultural impact. The Coventry Heritage Network The Coventry Heritage Network is an e-mail network of people interested in Coventry’s history and heritage. Members of

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Our Chairman, Paul Maddocks, reviews a book written by one of our own members, Peter Walters. Let’s hope they are still friends! Paul writes ‘The Little History of Coventry’ – yes it is little as the title says, but this lovely hard backed book with its deep red ribbon bookmark is a nice and handy [] The Coventry Society’s first Heritage Conference took place on Saturday 19th October 2019 at the Old Grammar School in Bishop Street. It was attended by representatives of more than twenty Coventry historical, preservation, amenity and local interest groups and organisations. Coventry Society Chairman, Paul Maddocks, welcomed Councilor Jim O’Boyle,

We are grateful for our hosts the Historic Coventry Trust and we hope that you will also visit the buildings and events that they are holding during the ten days of Heritage Open Days. Homepage » The Old Hall Coundon Hall (The Old Hall) Tamworth Road The Grade II listed Old Hall on Tamworth Road was an 1840’s country house, that The Coventry Society is very pleased to see the Charterhouse come back to life and we are grateful to Historic Coventry Trust and its leaders for their tenaciousness in bringing back to life one of the most important buildings in Coventry and the country.

Stoke House Homepage » Stoke House Stoke House Planning permission and listed building consent were granted for the conversion of one of Coventry’s historic old houses, Stoke House in Wyken, which was the birthplace of Colonel Wyley. Colonel William Fitzthomas Wyley was a chemist who became the Lord Mayor of Coventry in 1911.

Volunteer Open Day at the Guildhall - Coventry Society

Until recently the Coventry Society was the only organisation in the city interested in blue plaques, but there will shortly be three blue plaque schemes in the city! Last year the Council launched its own scheme and will shortly be erecting its first two plaques under that scheme. Last September Historic England announced that it []

The Coventry Society has established a Heritage Network for the sharing of information about the city’s heritage. The network is an email mailing list that anyone can sign up to and receive information shared by people and organisations in the city. Members of the network will receive a weekly email from the society with information [] the Priory, the Estate and the Charterhouse Fields. Historic Coventry Trust have been awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £4.3 million to restore Charterhouse Priory and the adjoining land. Work is currently underway and we no longer consider this to be a building at risk. This outstanding National Monument is on London Road

Coventry’s heritage is important for the City’s sense of identity and belonging. The character and quality, that old buildings and other historic features bring to our city centre and neighbourhoods, needs to be protected. Urgent attention needs to be paid to making good use of old buildings. The Coventry Society. Homepage » Park Cottage Park Cottage, Stoke Park The Coventry Society is concerned about this fascinating building in Stoke Park which has been lying vacant and neglected for many years. There is more about this building on our news website. BBC Coventry and Warwickshire has reported that a new pond has been created within the Charterhouse Heritage Park. A stretch of the River Sherbourne running through Charterhouse Heritage Park in

Ron was very interested in Coventry’s heritage and campaigned for many old buildings to be saved, The first success was the campaign to save Kirby House in Little Park Street in 1970 and Ron set up the Coventry Civic Amenity Society. My wife and I were two of the first people to join. Much later the name was shortened to the

Homepage » Whitefriars Whitefriars When the Inner Ring Road was routed across the frontage of this ancient building its setting was destroyed forever. These days it rarely opens to the public as it now houses museum records and artifacts while the new Herbert is under construction. Founded in 1342, the surviving building is all that [] The John Muir Trust, a charity that looks after wild places in Britain, has announced a plan to regenerate Charterhouse Heritage Park ‘an unique wild place in the heart of Coventry’. Although undermanaged for decades, and despite some anti-social behaviour issues and inaccessible areas the John Muir Trust recognises that the Charterhouse Heritage Park has []

The Coventry Society has published unique information enabling everyone to discover if a serviceman who died in the First World War lived in your street, or even in your house. Homepage » Royal Warwickshire Regiment Regimental and Other Military Memorials Coventry Cathedral Dedicated to: The 7th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. History: This tablet was dedicated by their comrades to the men of the 7th Battalion who died during the war. The 7th Battalion mainly recruited men from Coventry and over 1,100 were killed. []

On 10th January 2025, the National Trust (NT) took over management of Coventry’s historic Charterhouse, which will re-open in the Spring. When you’re looking for a new job, you want to know what it will ‘feel’ like if you get it. With us, it’s your values that matter not your background, so if you like Homepage » Royal Warwickshire Regiment Regimental and Other Military Memorials Coventry Cathedral Dedicated to: The 7th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. History: This tablet was dedicated by their comrades to the men of the 7th Battalion who died during the war. The 7th Battalion mainly recruited men from Coventry and over 1,100 were killed. []