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Fishy Moores
Looking at this photo I can see the strange triangular shaped building where my Mum and I used to walk down the back, down the cobbled road to Fishy Moores. We used to have to join the queue outside until the lady on the door called us in when there was a table free. There was a section up on raised platform inside, and I used to think only important people were allowed to eat their fish and chips up there! Happy days.
Contributed by Cathy Clapinson
Visits to cathedral
We used to stay one week each summer with my mother's aunt and we would be taken to see the sights of Coventry. I remember so well going into the ruined cathedral and feeling a sense of awe and that it was still a place of worship, albeit open-air. I think it was because the original aisles were still in place and where the pews would have been was grass.
Later on we came to live in Coventry and I have been a member of the Cathedral community. Memorable occasions in the 'old' cathedral have been Easter Sunday services at dawn after having stayed awake (and busy) since the first part of the service the evening before; sponsored sleep-outs overnight (usually ...read more here
Contributed by josie skene
West Midlands memories
Fishy Moores
Looking at this photo I can see the strange triangular shaped building where my Mum and I used to walk down the back, down the cobbled road to Fishy Moores. We used to have to join the queue outside until the lady on the door called us in when there was a table free. There was a section up on raised platform inside, and I used to think only important people were allowed to eat their fish and chips up there! Happy days.
A memory of Coventry contributed by Cathy Clapinson
Visits to cathedral
We used to stay one week each summer with my mother's aunt and we would be taken to see the sights of Coventry. I remember so well going into the ruined cathedral and feeling a sense of awe and that it was still a place of worship, albeit open-air. I think it was because the original aisles were still in place and where the pews would have been was grass.
Later on we came to live in Coventry and I have been a member of the Cathedral community. Memorable occasions in the 'old' cathedral have been Easter Sunday services at dawn after having stayed awake (and busy) since the first part of the service the evening before; sponsored sleep-outs overnight (usually ...read more here
A memory of Coventry contributed by josie skene
Extracts From Coventry & West Midlands books
Built of red sandstone, St John’s
has links with Queen Isabella
(1292-1358) and the Guild of
St John Baptist (founded 1342).
It was restored by Sir Giles
Gilbert Scott in 1877, though
the corbelled turrets on the tower
are early 19th-century additions.
An extract from from"West Midlands Pocket Album".
Sandwiched between St Nicholas Street and the old market
place at Cross Cheaping, Bishop Street was one of
Coventry’s main shopping thoroughfares. As can be seen, the
street was served by horse-drawn trams. In 1895 Coventry
became one of the early converts to electric street tramways; the
system operated until November 1940, when it suffered heavy
damage during the blitz.
An extract from from"West Midlands Pocket Album".
In 1509 William Ford, a merchant, founded and endowed the
Greyfriar’s Hospital, a half-timbered almshouse for five poor
men and their wives. It was just one of a number of generous
donations made to the city during the 16th century; others
included Bond’s (Bablake) Hospital for poor men founded in
1506, and Bablake Boys’ Hospital in 1560.
An extract from from"West Midlands Pocket Album".
Founded in the 12th century, the hospital of St John Baptist offered
temporary relief to poor wayfarers and relief to the sick and poor of the
city. St John’s benefited from a number of bequests, including a weekly
load of wood; this was negotiated by Roger de Montalt, Earl of Chester,
when he sold off his lordship rights in the Earl’s Half to the Prior. St
John’s was disbanded during the Reformation, and the building later
used for a free school.
An extract from from"West Midlands Pocket Album".
Holy Trinity, with its superb timbered ceilings, 15th-century stone
pulpit, brass eagle lectern, and octagonal font with panelled stem, is
one of just a handful of buildings that survive from Coventry’s
medieval past.The interior underwent restoration in the 1850s.
An extract from from"West Midlands Pocket Album".