Jay Tabb. Coventry was the first City in the UK to have an Ikea. Fed up with her husband’s high taxes on the people of Coventry, Lady Godiva rode through the town naked so he would revoke them. No-one looked at her, apart from some fellow called Tom, and this is where the term Peeping Tom comes from. Although in reality, it never happened, and the story was invented by Benedictine monks 250 years after her death. The name Coventry originated from the word Coventre. The word Coventre is derived from the two words ‘Covent’, which stands in for Convent, and ‘tre’, which stands for settlement. Britain's car industry was founded by Daimler in a disused Coventry cotton mill in 1896. All modern bicycles are descended from John Kemp Starley's Rover safety cycle, invented in Coventry in 1885. The first £5 note in a worker's peacetime wage was paid in Coventry during the 1950's. The city was the birthplace of jet pioneer Sir Frank Whittle, the poet Philip Larkin and the pop impresario Pete Waterman. The expression 'true blue' has Coventry origins and dates from the 14th century, when cloth dyed Coventry blue became very fashionable and expensive. The first tank, the first traffic indicators for cars and the first dumper truck were built in Coventry. The first motorised funeral was held in the city. The phrase 'sent to Coventry' originated during the English Civil War, when captured Royalists were imprisoned in the heavily fortified and strongly pro-Parliament city. They were given a hard time by the local people. Dick Whittington was member of one of Coventry's mediaeval craft guilds. Chuck Berry recorded his number one hit 'My Ding-A-Ling' at a Coventry dance hall. Coventry Transport Museum has the biggest collection of British made cars, motorcycles and bicycles in the world. The minis in the sewer scenes in The Italian Job, were filmed in Coventry. Two-Tone music, British Ska, came out of Coventry in the late 1970s, through bands like The Specials and Selecter. Ghost Town, the Specials’ biggest hit, was actually written about Glasgow, not Coventry. In 1948, work started on Coventry’s traffic-free shopping centre, the first in Europe. Rotterdam’s opened for business months later. Legend has it the dragon-slayer and patron saint of England was born in Coventry and was a central figure for the city.
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A wise person once said. “Coventry is a miserable place that drains you of life the moment you begin to transcend within it. Something very dark hangs over this city that invades your very being, especially if you are not aware with yourself and cannot handle the bleakness. There is nothing good about Coventry, it is a waste ground for the down and out and the segregated, not to mention it has a malicious baring about it, and try stepping foot into the city centre or walking to your local and you will have felt you were drained of life. Coventry really is a soul sucking place and a stain on the country which in all possibility should be reclaimed by nature.” City 3-0 Miserable Bleak-town.
Looks like we have a good number heading to Coventry on Saturday. It probably wont be as full, or as loud, as the last time I was there. The next day the local press claimed that people in Nuneaton (10+ miles from the stadium) could hear the concert.
England won the World Cup playing with an orange ball. An orange ball was used when Sunderland beat Leeds in the FA Cup Final in in 1973. By then they were using a white ball but it was a one off special to mark the 50th anniversary of the first a Wembley Cup Final.
Tough game, they are going well, need to keep Gyokeres quiet which won't be easy. Good following by the Tiger's faithful, so hopefully can spur the team onto at least a draw or maybe a win.
DMD, happy to be corrected but I do believe that the first Tank was designed and built at the William Foster & Co factory, Firth Rd in Lincoln. Indeed, the Museum of Lincolnshire Life had one of the "Little Wille' tanks and prototypes at some point (indeed they may still be there). This fact is also commemorated with a series of WWI Tank images at the Ropewalk Roundabout near my old employer the University of Lincoln.
I suspect the site I took that from was being a bit economical with the truth, as the tank was indeed created in Lincoln, but it used a Daimler engine from Coventry. https://www.visitlincoln.com/about-...he 29th September 1915,a new weapon: the tank. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/lifestyle/nostalgia/ww1-tanks-somme-7486747
Ah fair point! It's funny that the article calls the roundabout 'Tritton Rd Roundabout' (which indeed it is), but it was always the Ropewalk to locals!
Ha ha ... nice one. Typing on a phone with my ageing eyes, there is always a possibility of a typo! I do know it's 'Willie'.
Biggest collection of British built vehicles, ergo more Bedford's than the whole of Portugal? The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
