Share Your City. A partnership that brings together archives from across Coventry and makes them available in a single place. By @kyneswood for @covcampus.
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Well done @HistoricEngland gor photographing this important fresco mural by William Mitchell. It'd so dynamic, full of movement and symbolism.
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Anyone remember the Beech Tree cafe near the bus station?
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The wonderful Frank Tomlinson has contributed Coventry images from the 1970s and 1980s, including this from FA Cup final day. Anyone know anything about the Turnip Mob?
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Happy to report that George Wagstaffe and Michala Gyetvai have arrived in #Dresden today. Here they are with George's sculpture at the FAMA Skulptura on Neumarkt, Dresden! @palaissommer
Working on the previously unseen JJ Ward #autochrome collection from 1910. Beautiful images of a Coventry winter.
A view of Coventry towardss Hillfields, 1939, just before the bombs came. Wheatley Street School and Coventry Theatre visible, as is the new Trinity Street, bottom right.
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Today is the opening of our exhibition At @RugbyGallery ! Over the next month there will be workshops and a chance to meet some of the artists who have work in the exhibition. This exhibition is generously supported using public funding by the @TNLUK through @ace_national
ALT A poster for Art Riot Collectives’ exhibition at Rugby Gallery. Poster features pink spiral artwork by Roxanne Smith. Text on image reads: “ 'ART RIOT COLLECTIVE www.artriotcollective.com @artriotcollective Roxsmith credit: Image Floor One Gallery 1st 24th August 2023 RUGBY Art Gallery & Museum Little Elborow Street, Rugby. CV21 3BZ www.ragm.co.uk [email protected]'
Delighted to make available a series by #richardsadler from the 1955 opening of the Umbrella Club, showing the interior of Coventry’s post-war arts club.
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Joseph Wingrave c1880 plate of Butcher Row towards Bull Ring - the photographer stood with his back to (today) Wilko's to take this. The road was demolished in the 1930s for Trinity Street. If you zoom in to the middle, you'll see Hegan's Museum.
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A lovely piece on the ever evolving story on the rescued glass plate negatives of Arthur Cooper, saved by Ian Holland. It's a collaborative project with @kyneswood and his team at @covdig who are asking locals to help curate the images. #Archives
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A new photo archive reveals Coventry's hidden past.
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#Coventry in pictures: Some of the latest collection shows parts of the city's #cathedral+priory site, St Mary's, dating back to the time of #Leofric, the Earl of #Mercia and #LadyGodiva.
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More than 100 members of the Mothers Union attend a 1947 cathedral service
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A new photo archive reveals Coventry's hidden past.
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A new photo archive reveals Coventry's hidden past.
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Some more lovely Arthur Cooper images of Coventry for you to enjoy with your Sunday morning coffee. All available on @covdig via @kyneswood bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-co…