Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 1 of 80 Mon 10th Aug 2015 9:01pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Coventry favourite with bookies to land UK City of Culture title in 2021 |
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Disorganised1 Coventry All posts by this member | 2 of 80 Tue 11th Aug 2015 2:28am Member: Joined Nov 2012 Total posts:261 Might put some money on Aberdeen. |
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Wearethemods Aberdeenshire All posts by this member | 3 of 80 Tue 11th Aug 2015 10:19am Member: Joined Jun 2013 Total posts:476 I wouldn't and I live here! ![]() |
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 4 of 80 Tue 11th Aug 2015 10:48am Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1932 I notice in the link above how a piece of our important history is soon forgotten that's still here and is missing - Cash's. |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 80 Tue 11th Aug 2015 10:56am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Cultural offering: Lady Godiva, Coventry Cathedral, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, St Mary’s Guildhall, Coventry Transport Museum, Coombe Abbey, London Road Cemetery, Godiva Festival, Philip Larkin, 2-Tone... we’re running out of space!
No doubt Cash's would be included if there was more space for a longer list ![]() |
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Wearethemods Aberdeenshire All posts by this member | 6 of 80 Tue 11th Aug 2015 12:17pm Member: Joined Jun 2013 Total posts:476 Incidentally, Aberdeen does have a couple of things in common with Coventry today that it didn't have years ago one, both cities have no confidence in their local authorities (as mentioned in another thread) and secondly with the universities, the city centre is full of student accommodation! IMHO Coventry has a lot more in its favour ![]() |
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 7 of 80 Tue 11th Aug 2015 7:07pm Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:884 I'd say this is the worst of the major cities for culture. You tend to have to go elsewhere if you want to see a band, as there's no real live music scene in the city anymore.
Some interesting small stuff, but compared to Cardiff Coventry is pathetic.
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Mike H London Ontario, Canada All posts by this member | 8 of 80 Tue 11th Aug 2015 8:31pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:400 With respect, Cardiff is a capital city of which the Welsh are quite proud. Coventry is a worn out industrial town, trying to build into a modern city that looks promising while in the meantime the residents have no problem in voicing disapproval of what goes on in the city especially with regard to students. LOL |
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 80 Wed 12th Aug 2015 1:38pm Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:884 I know exactly what Cardiff is, as I have spent a lot of time there.
Coventry hasn't been an industrial city for 30 years and it's as far from being a 'modern' city as it was in 1930. |
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Mike H London Ontario, Canada All posts by this member | 10 of 80 Wed 12th Aug 2015 2:28pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:400 So it's still a work in progress. |
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 11 of 80 Thu 13th Aug 2015 7:22pm Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:884 It's something in progress, but I'm not entirely sure what! |
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Tricia Bedworth All posts by this member | 12 of 80 Sun 13th Mar 2016 3:57pm Member: Joined Jun 2011 Total posts:541 Thought that this might be of interest. It's from BBC app, re Coventry City of Culture. |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 13 of 80 Wed 7th Jun 2017 10:28pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2605 |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 14 of 80 Mon 26th Jun 2017 4:48pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2605 The advertising version of the city's bid
It sounds... ummm... riveting. Now I know that they can't give all their secrets away but I find the usual buzz words a total turn off.
Meanwhile Warrington's bid (snigger) has more charm but amounts to little more than 'we've got no history or culture, but we'd like some'. You never know, it might win on originality and bald honesty.
Sweet video but more style over substance.
Nah.
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 15 of 80 Mon 26th Jun 2017 8:07pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1839 I have just finished reading a fiction book "Working Wonders" by Jennie Colgan. Which turned out to be a slightly bizarre book about a man in Coventry Town Planning department being given the job of coming up with the city's plans for City of Culture 2005 (it is a 2003 book). After looking at Helen's post the ideas weren't so out there! |
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