Coventry in General Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

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

Hello, Iam a 35 year old woman who has lived in Coventry all my life. Iam using someone else's dooyoo name to write this review, just incase you got confused. In all my life of living in cov ive never noticed a bad thing about it. the best thing about cov is the 2 cathedrals they are so beautiful and so interesting. Along time ago when ...  Read the complete review

I went to Coventry University for three years and have visited it a few times since then. I didn't enjoy my time at university that much. The university is in the town centre. Warwick university is on the edge. The town is full of windy concrete buildings after the town was nearly destroyed in the war and it's frankly very depressing. ...  Read the complete review

Ever been sent to Coventry? If you have then I pity you. This has to be one of the worst cities in the UK. I can say that quite honestly having lived in several cities over the last 28 years. THE LOCATION. Just off junctions 2 and 3 of the M6 and just 15 miles South East of Birmingham, Coventry is in the heart of England. It is ...  Read the complete review

Coventry is a lovely city situated in the Midlands just south east of Birmingham. It was badly bombed during the Second World War and so much of it has been rebuilt. The most famous landmark, or should I say landmarks, is Coventry Cathedral. I mention the plural because technically of course there are two cathedrals. There is the new one, ...  Read the complete review

I lived in Coventry with my parents for the first eighteen years of my life. I won't pretend that it is the most beautiful of cities, but it has some wonderful characteristics if only you look for them. Obviously WW2 decimated the town centre, but the city fought back from this. Okay, the taste of some of the buildings is ...  Read the complete review

I spent three years as a student at Coventry University (didn't live their mind, stayed at home in Solihull). Before I went, Coventry had the reputation for being the stabbing capital of the world and I had visions of getting mugged every time I set foot outside after dark. In my time at Coventry, I never had or saw any trouble on a ...  Read the complete review

Coventry is an ugly, damp, grey city. However, underneath this mish-mash of badly planned 60s and 80s municipally constructed structures lies a city both culturally and socially vibrant. If you want to make your visit get off to a good start try to drive into the city up the Kenilworth Road (from Kenilworth, just of the A46). This drive into the ...  Read the complete review

Coventry is a city which will always carry the scars of the night of 14th November 1940. The torrential German bombing raid that flattened many areas of the city, most famously the beautiful Cathedral, changed the city's history and landscape forever. Today, the remains of the Cathedral still stand as Britain's most touching, and ...  Read the complete review

Coventry is perhaps best known for the night in November 1940 when it was almost blasted off the map by the Luftwaffe. Sizable chunks of the city centre and surrounding residential areas were razed to the ground. Coventrys' suffering did not end there! Another thirty years of mindless destruction by the town planners turned a ...  Read the complete review

The problem with Coventry, as with quite a few other cities in Britain, is that it simply doesn't look very nice. In most other cities, though, the problem is confined to a few small areas where the dreaded concrete has encroached - whilst here it is the rule rather than the exception. Step into the main shopping precincts and you ...  Read the complete review

WW2, a clear evening, coventry in the midlands receives one of the most horrific bombings that the country has seen in one fell swoop. This, and this solely is the reason why coventry is so much of a dump today. However it is not the distruction caused by the bombers in the 40s, but the rebuilding job that followed which makes it so ugly. ...  Read the complete review

Coventry has never had a good reputation for anything. It has always been seen as a bit of a hole with bags of economics and social problems. I am a Mancunian living in a self-imposed exile in this city and I have been here for quite a while. There have been years of depression and then mediocrity, but it is a city with a future. ...  Read the complete review

Despite most opinions, Coventry is a great city with lots to do for everyone. The city itself has a great variety of shops and department stores, for those that need a bit of retail therapy. It also has several very interesting museums and galleries, I would particularly recommend the British Road Transport Musem. However the most famous landmark ...  Read the complete review

Coventry doesn't have the best of reputations, true, but does it deserve it? YES! I've lived here for three painful years and don't have a lot of good to say about it. The areas AROUND Coventry are beautiful, friendly and relaxed. Coventry is dirty, untidy, ugly and the most depressing place I have ever been, bar the shanty town ...  Read the complete review