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• as i said before. the nightclubs are boring and tedious. better off findin yourself a l8 pub and stayin there.
• disabled inibuses specialy for students etc in coventry.the only one i know of is deansminibuses.com he supplied a disabled bus and a regular minibus for at least 9 warwick uni events this year.
• Ive lived here 21 yrs and seen about 1 or 2 not so bad fights (touch wood) so i dont know where every1 else is going ... plus people who think people from Mount Nod and Eastern Green are posh need 2 get out more!
• cov rules
• h&M kicks ass
• Hank McSpank needs to have his own category. i.e sightings of him or maybe quotes!?
• Tile Hill is a wkd area! but ders alot of gangs hangs hangin around jardine! Woodend is a shit hole n eastern green is gud 2 hang around - sumtimes abit 2 quiet tho! just wish ppl wud stop dis'in cov cuz it aint dat bad. ppl say 'send them 2 cov' like its a bad fing but go on den.. send dem eya so dey ca c 4 demselves dat its not dat bad really!
• a fukin half decent skatepark
• What about Pete Chambers mega book about Cov music entitled Godiva Rocks, Ottakars sell it.
• skateparks
• coventry is the best city in the uk, i've read the comments made by other gimps,people who don't recommend goin in to the city centre on a saturday night(espeacially if your around 20), that's bollocks, u just can't handle yourself,mate. grow up a bit y don't ya twat! let me put 1 thing to u all, if u can't walk about in your home town then where is it that u can!!! oh yeah come to foleshill great place!!!(you can tell what ethnic group i belong to!!!!!!)
• DONT,go in te mens toilets of POOL MEADOW BUS STATION,some creeps in there!
• The roundabout by Megabowl is very slippy, and i was in an accident where our car overturned simply because the floor was wetter than usual.
• i lived near coventry for all my life until i moved to plymouth as a student. people there complain about the awful architecture put up after it was bombed in the war but i have to say that after years of visiting cov, plymouth looks really good!
• Time to put the record straight... Legend has it that Coventry was the birthplace of St George, dragon-slayer and patron saint of England. The City has 26 twin towns, including Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), Dresden and Sarajevo. William Shakespeare was said to have jilted a Coventry woman on the eve of their wedding to marry Anne Hathaway. The first £5 note in a worker’s wage was paid in Coventry during the 1950s. George Eliot lived and went to school in Coventry. Life in the City around 1830 was the model for Middlemarch, her most famous novel. In November 1940 Coventry Cathedral was destroyed by just three incendiary bombs lodged in a wooden roof. There was no water to put the fires out. The great Victorian actress, Ellen Terry, was born in Coventry and her counterpart, a century earlier, Sarah Siddons, was married here. Tencel, the revolutionary fibre taking the fashion world by storm, was developed at Courtaulds’ laboratories in Coventry. George Orwell wanted to use Coventry as the focus for his study of poverty in England in the 1930s. But when he came here he found it too prosperous and moved on to Wigan. Coventry once had the only unfortified royal palace outside London. The gatehouse survives. The City was the birthplace of jet pioneer Sir Frank Whittle, the poet Philip Larkin and the athlete and broadcaster David Moorcroft. Coventry was the fastest growing town or City in Britain between the wars. ‘Sent to Coventry’ originated during the Civil War, when captured Royalists were imprisoned in the heavily fortified and strongly Parliamentarian City. They were given a very unpleasant time by the locals. Sir Henry Parkes, five times Premier of New South Wales and the father of modern Australia, was born in Coventry in 1815. Coventry has three Cathedrals - the ruins of St Mary’s, formerly a benedictine priory, the ruins of St Michael’s blitzed in November 1940, and Sir Basil Spence’s new Cathedral, consecrated in 1962. The expression ‘True blue’ has local origins dating from the late 11th Century when cloth dyed Coventry blue became very fashionable and highly sought after. The first tank, the first traffic indicators for cars and the first dumper truck were built in Coventry. The first motorised funeral was held here. Coventry was the birthplace of Tom Mann, founder of the engineering union and the launching pad for the career of Jack Jones, grand old man of the modern trades union movement. Glass painter John Thornton, creator of York Minster’s Great East Window - the finest work in stained glass in medieval England was a Coventry man. The City’s Museum of British Road Transport has the biggest collection of British-made cars, motorcyles and bicycles in the world. Dick Whittington was a member of one of Coventry’s medieval craft guilds. In 1642 the City repelled an attempt by Charles I to garrison it. Two middle-aged housewives led the defenders. Britain’s car industry was founded by Daimler in a disused cotton mill in Coventry in 1896. The legendary Chuck Berry recorded his hit My Ding-a-Ling in Coventry in 1972.
• Bad things would be the rumours - watch u dont shave ur eyebrow off ppl might start saying u dress up as a woman at night! Dont believe everything ya hear lol
• THE DOG AND TRUMPET!!!!!
• on the whole, cov's abit shit, from big jb
• great city
• Come on Cov. Its a great town. If it wasnt for the Uni's and the car factories what would you have? nada.
• Coventry is a dump and the people who say it isn't are living in denial. Too much violence, it truely is a ghost town.
• Suzy Q's is a cool pool/snooker hall
• Coventry has history and heritage. It's not that bad. I agree that the locals could be friendlier, but that's because the visitors are unfriendly to them, disresepctful to our history and heritage and generally think they can come to Coventry and behave like animals. We don't speak like Brummies, but there's nothing wrong with that if we did. Coventry is an ethnically diverse city with people from all sorts of places on the globe. We had to rebuild our entire city after the Blitz very quickly and with very little money. It's only now that we are able to input sustained investment into the city and bring it up to date. The locals are friendly - you just have to be friendly too!
• That fat fucker that on the kebab shop - you know...Jon.
• WWW.GEOFFTHOMPSON.COM
• Backbeat studios is great as long as its the cool bloke an not the psycho woman.
• Coventry is not all built up, visit Coombe Abbey, the Memorial Park, the gravel pits (sounds grim) but is really sevarl lakes set in parkland.
• Locals- just cos your sister is also your wife and your mum has more facial hair than your dad doesn't mean you have the right to nick my hubcaps or piss in my rubbish bin.
• verry good
• Just like to point out that far from being 'dodgy' Earlsdon is probably the best area in Coventry (even Richard Branson thinks so) but Ernsford Grange and Fossill definitely dodgy!
• Coventry University Performing Arts. Churned out some of the most tallented, nicest, hard working musicians, dancers, actors and those media people. Lunch time concerts will live on in my heart for as long as I live.
• COV IS CRAP THERE ALL A BUNCH OF CUNTS
• Is'nt it true that cov was recently voted the dirtiest city in England? Not a big surprise really considering most of the residents have the iq of a road killed squirrel. Full of litter, sigle mom slappers and dole bludgers. The Germans should have done the job properly when they had the chance.
• COMPLETLY AGREE WITH THE COMMENT ABOUT THE POST OFFICE STAFF IN CANNON PARK, NOT ONLY ARE THEY MISERABLE BUT ALSO RUDE AND IGNORANT! I REALLY NEED TO GET THIS OFF MY CHEST AS ITS GOT TO THE POINT WHERE I SEND MY HUSBAND TO POST MY LETTERS FOR FEAR OF COMING INTO CONTACT WITH THE STAFF!
• Covkids have the worst grammar in the entire country. See above.
• Coventry has changed in the last 3 years. The City's industry has diversified and the manufacturing industry has been modernised and joined by banking and services. The City is still growing, with large developments around its outskirts. The North towards Nuneaton is very built up -- for over 10 miles now. It's surprising to see the development in the area. The city centre -- badly designed and too small -- is being redeveloped in huge chunks. A lot of the post-war concrete has been torn down and replaced with new buildings. The Canal Basin is taking off, and there are plans for city centre apartment, new shopping centres & leisure facilities. Along with this there are new pubs, clubs & restaurants opening all the time. Despite its reputation as being violent, it's no different to any other City, and the majority of people are friendly (I am not a Coventry Kid) and aware of the city's history and surviving heritage. I find it hard to believe that this is the same place I came to ten years ago. There's still a long way to go, but Coventry seems to be finally shaking off its image of being a desolate, concrete jungle.
• People always say "you get sent to Coventry", and think that it is well known for being crap, but the saying derives from a prison which used to be there. I am originally from Coventry and I know it's not the friendliest place in the world, but I am currently living in Manchester, and that is a REAL shit hole, much worse than Coventry. Full of little kids trying to mug you at knife point, believe me after living in Manchester I kinda miss Coventry.
• I visited Coventry for the first time recently to meet my new girfriend's parents. I have never been to such a rough, threatening town in my life (even though I'm from Yorkshire). Christ, your City makes London seem friendly and Bradford cultured. What a shithole - and you all talk like Brummies.
• I like the Asian couple who own the Post Office near the Rail Station. They're the only place I know who sells Immodium over the counter when you've had a bad curry the night before and are getting on the train home.
• If you want to marvel at the most miserable staff ever found in a shop, check out the staff of the post office in Cannon Park shopping centre. Bloody hell. They've been talking miserable lessons I reckon. The most sarcastic, patronising, moaning old battleaxes I've ever had the misfortune to be 'served' by. They should make it a tourist attraction, cos it's the only way they're going to keep their customers.
• always someone out around town a strong scene
• G.U. Clinic - Female 024 7684 4163 G.U. Clinic - Male 024 7683 3164 Coventry Pregnancy Advisory Service 024 7652 5433 Relate 024 7622 5863
• Coventry is my home city. I like the feeling of home I have here but I also recognise it's faults. Most of is population are either stupid, unfriendly, lazy, or all of the above. I like to venture out of town sometimes if I have a night out. People in other places seem so much easier to talk to and have a laugh with. I have known people from other parts who have been mistified by how unfriendly the locals can be. I like Coventry because its where I know, but most the people are hardly worth the time of day.
• Coventry is ok so shut up dissing it ! !
• Seven years ago (my god, is it really that long?) a naive young Londoner came to Coventry to get a degree. Somehow, he manged to end up staying here. Seven years later he still cant figure out why he is here - when he goes out it is rarely in Coventry, he doesnt even work in Coventry, yet stil he lives here. He knows very few locals - most of his friends are fellow ex-students attached to the place with some sort of invisible bungy thread that ensures they never stray too far, or other immigrants from elsewhere. Coventry is the sort of town that has that effect - aliens congregate because no locals wil talk to them, locals have an innate distrust of anyone from anywhere else, almost as if they resent the fact that any alien presence will almost withou doubt have come from somewhere better! Yet everyone stays, everyone in Coventry complains about the place yet so few people leave. Personally, I reckon there is something the council put in the water. Whatever - i drink Evian, so Im getting out of here! Will I miss it? A little, but as Paul Daniels used to say, NOT A LOT!
• I'm like a lot of you; I was born and raised in Coventry. I moved in '81 but Coventry will always be my "home". It my heritage, my childhood and my youth. Yea, there's a lot that could be changed for the better - better buildings, more to do, a championship :), but I'm still very proud to tell people that I'm from Coventry. It's a great place to be from. You won't ever change where you're from but you can change the way you live there.
• Kevin Keegan almost signed for Coventry City in 1965! But Jimmy Hill turned him down because he was too short! Coventry appears in a Shakespeare play - Ricahard III - at Gosford Green Became capital of England for 5 years a long time ago. George Elliot's Middlemarch is based in Coventry. City Centre was redesigned by Hitler and Co demolision experts in 1940
• Try 'bush diving' underneath the sports centre when drunk. The most fun i have had in Coventry
• It's got the coolest or most hideous clock (depending on the person) in the whole world. On the hour in Broadgate square (outside Cathederal Lanes) a plastic Lady Godiva rides out on a horse and a crap peeping Tom pops his head out as well. This is about as exciting as it gets!
• Um, other stuff. Avoid the city centre on Saturdays: lots of hassled mothers dragging their screaming brats along, "Coom eya, ya little bastard". Plenty of wierdos in Coventry.
• War Memorial Park is beautiful, and Canal Basin is nice, too.
• Crappy residential areas you have to be born in to appreciate and drink in the pubs there. <UL>
• Willenhall
• Ernesford Grange
• Any area with 'Stoke' in it (Stoke Aldermoor/Green/Park)
• Wood End
• Bell Green
• Foleshill </UL>Good residential areas where your car may keep its wheels. <UL>
• Stivitchall
• Finham
• South Earlsdon
• Binley Woods
• Ernesford Grange is one of the better areas of Coventry, and Earlesdon is dodgy. I live in Cheylesmore.
• For shopping, Coventry has some good places nearby: Leamington, <A HREF="594.html">Warwick</A>, <A HREF="245.html" TARGET="main">Leicester</A>.
• Hillfields - the red light district (around Ford Street).
• What a cool page this is. I fully agree that Coventry is crap, boring and if you're young like me, 20, you're likely to get beaten up. Coventry does my head in. Full of stupid idots who have come to think Coventry is the centre of the universe. BULLSHIT. I am glad I went to university but I still have to come back to the poxy place. I'm not saying it's not my home, I still like it my familiy etc. but the general atmos. is pretty scarey.
• The new ice rink and various other stuff center being built at the moment looks really promising for being a cool place to hang.
• I struggled to disagree with comments about my birth town and failed. Having lived abroad in Switzerland for 4 years, it does open your eyes. The clubs in Cov are dull,boring and are violent. The restaurants, good ones, are indeed virtually non-existant, and ......shit, here I'm surrounded by superb places to eat. Get wise guys,.....if you do not like it, look elsewhere. How many peope think about where they would like to live?? I come back to "good ol Cov" to say Hi to some friends and drink a pint or two or three at the Nursary - (see my note under good pubs). It is still a pleasure to return, and I will continue to do so, but do I miss living there.........er no!!
• For some reason the towns ring road was placed almost exactly through the centre of the town. This has always struck me as being a bit odd. You have to cross a really busy road to get to a lot of the shops. They now want to build a new 10,000 seat stadium for the towns football club in the middle of a residential estate. This is also odd...nothing changes.
• OK, Coventry is not the best place in the world. Agreed. But for GODS SAKE, you whinging lot are part of the reason for that. I've lived here all my life and for all it's faults it's MY town. Best football team in the universe & there are some decent pubs and restaurants - you gotta know where to look admittedly!
• Coventry will be good in a few years with the developments going on at present.

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