Coventry in General

I wonder if Coventry's one of those places you either love it or hate it! I love it! I've lived here all my life, my mum and dad moved here for work in the 70's. One of the best things is that it's in the midlands it's so close to all the main motorways and it's within easy reach of the north, south, east & west! of course as it's the middle! Meriden is actually the middle of England hence Meriden (Meridian) it's about 2miles from the outskirts of Coventry on the West Side. Coventry is becoming more cosmopolitan and it's trying to lift it's image, we have the Transport Museum which is free and the Herbert Art Gallery which is also free they have ...  Read the complete review

Medieval Spon Street Coventry Spon Street just down from St John's church is rich in history. But how many people know that some of theses building once stood in other parts of the city. Number 14 & 15 however are a part of the original Spon street and was the Recruiting Sergeant pub in the early 19th centaury Number 16 (previously numbers 142 & 143) however built in the 1700 but on the opposite side of the road originally. until 1971 when it was then moved and rebuilt in 1975 Number 20 & 21 which today is bar 1450 used to be number 122 & 123 Much Park Street, Coventry The The courts at the rear of the Shakespeare pub are the only ...  Read the complete review

So what can Coventry offer you as a visitor? History! Those devilish Huns air-conditioned Coventry during the 1940's (sorry, some of us are still a bit bitter about that) and you can still see the after effects of that in Coventry Cathedral. Our old Cathedral that is. Yep, we've got 2 Cathedrals! Well at the football we do sing "If you want a Cathedral, We've got one to spare" and we can actually mean it! Technically we've actually got 3 Cathedrals, as Tony Robinson & the Time Team discovered the first and earliest Coventry Cathedral in the only programme where they actually dug for longer than 3 days in 1 place. You can also see the City wall ...  Read the complete review

Home of the Coventry City Football, club is the new Ricoh Arena, and at one time, this city was one of the great manufacturing centres of the world. The city was home to more bicycle companies than you could ever imagine. There were more Car and motorbike companies then you knew existed. The city also was home to a third of a million people (as of the last census). Coventry is twinned with Stalingrad, or we should now call it Volgograd. In fact Coventry was the very first City to be "twinned". Due to the fact that this city was "Coventrated" during the second World War, it is also twinned with Dresden, as well as some 27 other ...  Read the complete review

not a pretty place - Advantages: shopping, cheap, large indoor market - Disadvantages: high crime rates, dull place, miserable people!