My home town

[tyred]

I came to Coventry in 1973 and I'm still here.

Crikey, is the traffic jam really that bad

 

[DaveReading]

I was sent there once.

 

[Drago]

My Missus is a Cov girl and loves it. I don't dislike it, but I can't see the attraction of towns. I'm just a country boy, a country boy at heart!

 

[biggs682]

I was sent there once.

Only once

 

[Heifer73]

I went round the Motor Museum just after they had refurbished it and they've made a good job of it.

I went the day before it re-opened, to be told it is closed but I can still go and have a look around. I got to see some bikes so not that bad.

 

[Heifer73]

Coventry is one of "those" towns that I will always have a "never again" attitude towards.

All because I drove through it on a wet weekday winters afternoon at about 3pm in the early 1990's. I never stopped then....

Go on, tell me what I'm missing?

A city with two cathedrals, Holy Trinity church, pepping Tom and Lady Godiva, motor museum, a really good football team, Coombe Abbey, the three spires, lots of great places to ride so much you are missing, best avoid the shops.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The Rose & Castle, down the road from the Ansty Hotel, is a very popular pub with Coventry folk. Some good roads for cycling around Ansty. I'm glad you enjoyed your visit.

The Rose And Castle is excellent, we've been there for a meal tonight, generous portions, hot and well cooked, my Good Lady couldn't finish Her second course, I managed three courses but was suitably stuffed afterwards, it wasn't to heavy on the wallet either.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A city with two cathedrals, Holy Trinity church, pepping Tom and Lady Godiva, motor museum, a really good football team, Coombe Abbey, the three spires, lots of great places to ride so much you are missing, best avoid the shops.

Yes, Coventry is a CITY!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry

I thought those of you living there might know that!

 

[Gravity Aided]

From what I've seen from afar, I think the cathedral is a very pretty one, and I like that the remains of the old one were left there as a testament to what was lost.

 

[Levo-Lon]

There discussing the cathedral on bbc news now..3rd place in awards..

i found the new cathedral intresting in the way its been built but i thought it a dark and uninviting structure..
i prefere the old damp stone smell and impossibly expensive to reproduce architecture of old.

peterborough cathedral is a beautiful as is ely etc..and southwell nr newark is a gem in a very pretty and historic little place..worth a visit if your near

 

[Gravity Aided]

Stonework at Ely simply boggles the mind (Never been there, but I've seen quite a few pictures, just the same. I am sure, much like the Episcopal National Cathedral, in Washington District, pictures just don't do it justice.)

 

[ufkacbln]

The Rose & Castle, down the road from the Ansty Hotel, is a very popular pub with Coventry folk. Some good roads for cycling around Ansty. I'm glad you enjoyed your visit.

Is that the one on the Canal

If so then I can verify the Fayre

We moored on t'other side, crossed the bridge and had an excellent meal

 

[Heifer73]

Is that the one on the Canal

Yes it is.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We had a weekend there quite a few years ago, & stayed in the Leofric hotel (who was Godivas husband, I believe?)

I missed out on the Coventry Motor Museum (this was well before Richard Nobles 'Thrust' cars ended up there), but did call at Gaydon museum on the way home, & drooled over the Darien Gap Range Rover

Plus contemplated what a missed opportunity the 'Project Iceberg' engine was (curiously, a similar engine made its way into the, Solihull built, L322)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yeah, yeah... and Lincolnshire isn't a bastion of inbreeding.

I thought that was Norfolk?