 Alstom Pendolino Train from Birmingham to Coventry |
 Coventry Station |
 Welcome to Coventry |
 Manor Yard, 14th C. |
 Coventry once possessed one of England's most well preserved medieval town centers |
 After the massive German bombing on 14 November 1940, only a few pockets of the historic center survived |
 The Squirrel, Coventry |
 Christchurch Spire survived the Blitz, while the church itself burned |
 Christchurch Spire |
 Methodist Central Hall, Coventry |
 The Phoenix by George Wagstaffe, 1962 |
 The Phoenix by George Wagstaffe, 1962 |
 After the war, Coventry was rebuilt in a modern style with one of Europe's earliest pedestrian zones |
 Ford's Hospital - Alms House for Old Ladies of Coventry, 1509 |
 Ford's Hospital survived and was restored to its original conditioning 1953 |
 Ford's Hospital, Coventry |
 The Earl of Mercia, Little Park Street, Coventry |
 The Earl of Mercia, Little Park Street, Coventry |
 Coventry City Council, Earl Street |
 Coventry City Council |
 Justitia - Coventry City Council |
 Coventry City Council |
 Coventry City Council |
 Coventry City Council |
 Coventry City Council |
 Coventry City Council |
 Playwrights, Hay Lane, Coventry |
 The Golden Cross, Coventry |
 Coventry Cathedral |
 A victim of World War II, Coventry Cathedral was left in ruins |
 Like several other churches, only the tower was spared |
 Destruction of the stained glass windows of the old Coventry Cathedral |
 Rather than rebuilt the old, a new cathedral was constructed 1956-1962 |
 The spire of the original St. Michael's Cathedral |
 Ruins of Coventry Cathedral |
 St. Michael's Cathedral, Coventry |
 Cross made of burnt roof beams, Coventry Cathedral |
 Ruins, Coventry Cathdral |
 Ecce Homo, Coventry Cathedral, carved 1934-35 by Sir Jacob Epstein, dedicated 1969 |
 Loss - Coventry Cathedral |
 Coventry Cathedral Spire |
 Ruins of Coventry Cathedral |
 Climbing the old spire, Coventry Cathedral |
 View of the cathedral ruins, Coventry |
 Coventry - a great loss, hastily rebuilt |
 The new Coventry Cathedral - Chapel of Unity |
 Holy Trinity Church from the spire |
 The reconstructed city center of Coventry |
 The Earl of Mercia from the spire |
 Coventry, England, from the cathedral spire |
 View of Coventry from the old cathedral spire |
 A survivor of the war |
 NatWest Bank, Coventry |
 Chapel of Unity, Coventry Cathedral |
 Coventry Transport Museum |
 Ruined altar of Coventry Cathedral |
 Coventry University |
 Looking out towards the stadium, Coventry |
 Back down the spiral staircase |
 18th C. memorials to Dame Mary Bridgeman and Mrs. Eliza Samwell in Coventry Cathedral |
 Coventry Cathedral's World War I (Great War) memorial damaged by the German bombs of World War II |
 Surviving ruins, Coventry Cathedral |
 Cathedral with the spire of Trinity Church |
 Modern statue of Jesus, old Coventry Cathedral |
 Tomb of Bishop Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs |
 The Bishop holds a model of Coventry Cathedral |
 Bishop Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs (1845-1922) |
 Isn't it ironic that the Bishop's mitre has a swastika on it |
 Bishop's tomb, old Coventry Cathedral |
 Ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral |
 Ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral |
 Ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral |
 Ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral |
 Ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral |
 Old Coventry Cathedral |
 Spire of Trinity Church |
 Old Coventry Cathedral |
 Spire of the Old Coventry Cathedral |
 New Coventry Cathedral |
 New Coventry Cathedral |
 St. Michael's Victory Over the Devil, New Coventry Cathedral |
 St. Michael's Victory Over the Devil by Sir Jacob Epstein |
 The Devil Defeated, Old Coventry Cathedral |
 New Coventry Cathedral |
 Chapel of Unity, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Interior, New Coventry Cathedral |
 New Coventry Cathedral - Altar |
 New Coventry Cathedral - Altar |
 Jesus behind the altar, New Coventry Cathedral |
 New Coventry Cathedral - eastern aisle windows |
 Pulpid, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Stained Glass Windows - New Coventry Cathdral |
 "Come unto Me all Ye that Labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest..." |
 New Coventry Cathedral |
 New Coventry Cathedral |
 New Coventry Cathedral |
 Modern manger scene, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Great Eastern Window, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Southern glass wall, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Southern glass wall, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Window, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Window, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Chapel of Unity - Interior, New Coventry Cathedral |
 Coventry News Boy statue, 1965 |
 22 Bayley Lane, a medieval timber framed house ca 1500 |
 22 Bayley Lane and the old Cathedral Spire |
 Priory Row, Coventry |
 Trinity Church, Coventry |
 Trinity Church, Coventry |
 The Flying Standard Pub, Coventry |
 The Flying Standard Pub, Coventry |
 The Flying Standard Pub, Coventry |
 Lady Godiva, Coventry |
 Lady Godiva, Coventry |
 Lady Godiva by Sir William Reid Dick, 1949 |
 Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry in the 11th C. against oppressive taxation |
 1950's pedestrian shopping zone, a postwar innovation |
 Lower Precinct Shopping Center, Coventry |
 Lower Precinct Shopping Center, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Church of St. John the Baptist, Coventry |
 Spon Street & St. John the Baptist Church |
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 Spon Street - a 14th C. half-timbered street which survived 1940 |
 Spon Street, Coventry |
 Spon Street, Coventry |
 Spon Street - I can only image how wonderful Coventry must have been |
 Spon Street |
 I think it's things like that that Prince Charles was raving against |
 Spon Street, Coventry |
 The Old Windmill, 16th C., Spon Street |
 English half-timbered architecture, Coventry |
 Narghilia Historic 14th C. Kebabs and Fast Food, Spon Street |
 Modern Coventry town center - Upper Well Street |
 Coventry Evening Telegraph |
 Modern-Ugly, Coventry |
 Burges Street, Coventry |
 Corporation Street, Coventry |
 Part of the Sir Frank Whittle Memorial, Coventry |
 Coventry Transport Museum |
 Britannia Hotel, Coventry |
 Priory Place, Coventry |