Over the last few days I have attended events that have caused me to reflect on the history of some of our local pubs, the pastimes...

Walking back from town I broke my journey sitting on a bench on Binley Road backing on to the wall of the Stoke Park Estate. This is...

In a recent blog post "Tudor Tangles and the Dreamy Caludon Connection" I looked at connections between the Berkeley family of Caludon...

I recently spent a Saturday taking in some of Coventry's offerings during the Heritage Weekends event. My first stop was the Canal Basin...

My city centre guided walk, "The Bard, the Blitz and the Tudors" focuses partly upon the aristocratic Berkeley family of Coventry's...

The start of the football season has seen the Sky Blues return to the now renamed Coventry Building Society Arena (still hard not to say...

Following the lifting of restrictions I am aiming to get my Coventry themed local history talks, walks and research services up and...

Hermitage Farm was still operational when I was a child. At the bottom end of the scout field between Mellowdew Road and Browning Road...

A Hermit lived here. That's why my road is called Hermitage Road. Hermitage Road after Hermitage Farm (also known as "The Hermitage")...

I spent Monday evening attending a virtual zoom meeting of the Coventry Society which featured a positive presentation by Mark Webb of...

Something quite different (for me!) in my blog post today. In yesterday's post I gave mention to local street names which act as a...

Our methods of working, learning and getting entertained are habit forming and it has certainly been the case over the last few months...

In my last post I looked at some aspects of Coventry's coal mining and motor industries. Today I move on to retail and tourism - two...

I spent yesterday (Saturday) evening viewing some interesting TV programmes relevant to our local industries that put me to thinking...

I have spent much of the recent "lockdown" period working on what I hope will eventually become a publication dealing with all things...

When I was growing up I would often hear my grandma, my dad and other older native Coventrians lament the lost "character" of their city....

Some of my recent posts have dealt with connections between Caludon Castle and William Shakespeare. Early scenes from the history...

I regulary go for walks with my dog Spike around Caludon Castle Park and often imagine the activity which would have gone on there...

The BBC website today reported the discovery of what is thought to be "The Red Lion" - London's earliest theatre. The story links the...