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| Haunted Coventry - | |||||||||
This book contains spooky stories regarding the many ghostly goings on in Coventry. Phantom Monks, Grey Ladies and chains a rattling at Whitefriars. Read all about Coventry’s haunting history in this interesting book. |
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| Coventry Transport to 1939 - Roger Bailey | |||||||||
| This book would interest anyone with a taste for history or with links to the Coventry Tram or Bus network as it does not refer to the Coventry Car Industry. The Author Roger Bailey’s parents both worked on the Buses and they were the inspiration for this his first book. Included are some fascinating photos of Coventry Transport from 1884-1940, there will be a second book to follow which will bring Coventry Transport more up to date. | |||||||||
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This new book contains many local photographs which illustrate the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Coventry during the 20th century. It also gives an insight into the lives of local people during this time of change and covers many aspects of local history and special occasions. |
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| So Many Ways to Begin - Jon Mc Gregor | |||||||||
| This bestseller novel is set in Post WWII Coventry. It gives and personal portrait of the life of museum curator David Carter and his family. It takes us on a journey through family relationships secret adoptions and love. The author spent a week in Coventry staying with friends gathering material for this book. | |||||||||
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Coventry (Images of England Series) - Geoff Barwick | ||||||||
| This fascinating volume contains over 200 photographs and illustrations, the vast majority never before published; they offer a unique glimpse into the history of Coventry over the past 150 years. Supported by accompanying text, the images in this book provide a nostalgic pictorial history of this diverse and remarkable city, and the varied lives of its residents, at work and at play. The result is a volume that will serve as a touching reminder of the past for some while revealing the town’s history to others. | |||||||||
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Veterans' Voices - Coventry's unsung
heroes of the Second World War - Caroline Freeman-Cuerden |
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| The story of Coventry’s war has often been told. This book is different. Turning the focus away from the city itself, these are the memories of 23 veterans, just a few of the thousands of Coventry men and women who served and fought in the Second World War. Their stories are recounted here in their own words, interspersed with letters documents, diary excerpts and photographs. We also discover what it was like to return to a devastated Coventry at the end of the war. | |||||||||
| Jaguar in Coventry - Building the Legend - Nigel Thorley | |||||||||
| Jaguar - Once the life blood of an industrial city like Coventry but sadly Jaguar’s are now only designed not built here. Read this interesting book that tells of the role the company once played in the working life of Coventry. This illustrated history offers a fascinating insight into the techniques of automotive design and engineering that have given rise to Jaguar's extraordinary reputation. It tells the story of the fluctuating fortunes of the company at Browns Lane, and offers a revealing account of car production techniques and processes at Jaguar as they have evolved over the years. The book also offers an intimate portrait of the local people who can now no longer depended on Jaguar for their livelihoods. | |||||||||
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Yesterday's Child - A Coventry
Childhood in Peace and War - Pat Watson |
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| This story is set in 1930s Coventry and continuing through the Blitz, Yesterday's Child is a novel of working-class childhood, told through the eyes of the main character. Though this is a child's story, it is not a story for children, and the reader is left with an enjoyable sense of unease. Backgrounds include a midnight flit, a country house children's party, a seedy second hand shop with an arsonist parrot, coronation celebrations, a wealthy old recluse in a decaying mansion, a stone-deaf piano teacher who once saw an angel, a seaside holiday with, a dangerous escape from the Blitz, a war-time romance, and a convenient bereavement. | |||||||||
| Coventry - The Hidden History - Iain Soden | |||||||||
| Based on 40 years of excavation, this is the first comprehensive history of Coventry, which looks in particular at its spectacular economic growth from Saxon times to become, by the fourteenth century, one of the foremost cities of medieval England, surrounded by a wall with 20 towers and 12 gates. The city became a magnet for entrepreneurs, also attracting the major religious orders :- Benedictines, Franciscans, Carmelites and Carthusians - who developed an economy heavily reliant on monastic wool. Since the crippling blow the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Coventry has, over the centuries, experienced several declines and renaissances - the last redevelopment being the recovery from the devastating blitz of the Second World War. | |||||||||
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Coventry Monopoly - A Special Coventry Edition of this Classic Game | ||||||||
| Everyone knows Monopoly but now you can enjoy this special local edition of the Game, including real Coventry Streets, Local Sites and Firms. This would be a fun gift especially ideal for past and present Coventry Kids of all ages a game that we can all enjoy. | |||||||||
| Memories of Coventry: A Pictorial Record - Alton Douglas | |||||||||
| This captivating book is packed with photos and was produced with the aid of the photographic archives of "The Coventry Evening Telegraph", this new edition of a title which has been out of print for several years, should find a new readership interested in the history of Britain's "Motor City". | |||||||||
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The Facts of Life - Graham Joyce | ||||||||
| The story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the Second World War. Presided over by an indomitable matriarch, the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the Blitz, war work and on into the hopeful post-war years, and a bizarre interlude for one of them in a commune. And through it all wanders the young son of one of the sisters, passed from sister to sister, the innocent witness to a life that edges over into the magical. | |||||||||
| The Coventry We Have Lost: Vol 2 - David Fry | |||||||||
| The book contains brief introduction and pages of photographs that will prove especially interesting to past residents. A perfect gift for relations who would enjoy reminiscing over these slices of history. This book might also be the perfect trigger to get an elderly relation to talk about their past and your family history. I have this book myself and as one who doesn’t remember many of the streets I found it intriguing. | |||||||||
| Coventry at War - Alton Douglas, Jo Douglas | |||||||||
| This book is a must for anyone interesting in Coventry during WWII. I have a copy of this book and it contains many photos showing the devastation caused by the bombing and of everyday life in Coventry during WWII. | |||||||||
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Coventry at War - David McGrory | ||||||||
| Local bestselling author David McGrory
takes afresh look at Coventry during the war years, in this, the first
new illustrated book on the subject for fourteen years. Using over
two hundred photographs, many previously unpublished and with informative
captions, the author traces various aspects of wartime Coventry. Such
aspects include the Auxiliary Fire Service, the Home Guard and transport
and bomber manufacture at Armstrong Whitworths’s plants at Whitley
and Bagington. Also illustrated are numerous scenes of the city’s
destruction including ones from the notorious eleven hour raid of
the 14 November 1940. |
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| Coventry A Century of News - Alton
Douglas, Jo Douglas |
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| This book was originally produced to mark 100 years of Publishing by the Coventry Evening Telegraph/Midland Daily Telegraph. This book is packed with photographs and articles from the papers 100 year history. It shows the changes in local industry from Watches & Bikes to Cars and the changing shape of the city itself. | |||||||||
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The Illustrated History of Coventry's Suburbs - David McGrory | ||||||||
| This book is illustrated with fascinating photos from Coventry City's Archives; these photos show how over the years Coventry absorbed neighbouring farms and villages into its suburbs. David Mc Grory also relates local stories some of them unusual but very interesting, many involving local characters. Anyone interested in the History of Coventry will find this book enjoyable, it contains photos of many Coventry suburbs such as: Earlsdon, Foleshill, Binley, Keresley, Wyken and Gosford Green, to name but a few. | |||||||||
Sent from Coventry - The Chequered
Past of Two Tone |
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This book is a bit of a nostalgia trip for anyone who remembers:- The Specials, The Selector, Bad Manners exc. Two Tone is still fondly remembered by many and songs such as Ghost Town still sound great today. Worth reading if you enjoyed the sound and want to know more about its roots, or would just like to reminisce. |
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| Coventry (Old O.S. Maps of Warwickshire) | |||||||||
| This map is a must for anyone interested in family research with ancestors from Coventry, I have a copy myself and it has proved invaluable. If you would like to trace the street where your relatives lived from addresses found in the census returns it is often be impossible, so much of Coventry was destroyed in the Blitz or later demolished by the council like the beautiful Medieval Butcher Row. | |||||||||
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