Coventry Collection

Advertisement for Triumph Renown motor car
Advertisement for the Triumph Renown motor car -- all thats best in Britain. Featuring a traditional cricket match on a village green on a sunny Saturday afternoon. 1951

Lady Godiva rides her horse naked through the streets of Coventry while Peeping Tom looks on Date: 1860

The Three Spires - Coventry, Warwickshire
Coventry, Warwickshire is known as The City of the Three Spires - Holy Trinity Church (left), St. Michaels Cathedral (centre) and Christ Church (Greyfriars) (right). Date: circa 1910s

Kaman HH-43B Huskie, 62-4535 base rescue helicopter
Kaman HH-43B Huskie, 62-4535, the base rescue helicopter at Upper Heyford. This helicopter is currently in the Midland Air Museum, Coventry

Shakespeare Exhibition at Earls Court, London
Londons great attraction: what to see in Shakespeares England. How to find and identify the chief reconstructions of old Tudor buildings at Earls Court. Date: 1912

Lyons Corner House, central London
Lyons Corner House on the corner of Coventry Street and Rupert Street, London. Date: 1947

Advertisement for the Rover Safety Bicycle, 1885
Advertisment for the Rover Safety Bicycle, built by Starley and Sutton of the Meteor Works, Coventry

Coventry Shopping Centre
The rather stark modern shopping centre in Coventry with shoppers going about their business at British Home Stores or Marks and Spencer; Coventry Cathedral can be seen Date: 1960s

Poster advertising Palmer tyres of London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Coventry and Nottingham. A lady on a bicycle and a group of people in a car travel side by side

A Selection of Bicycles, 1888
Engraving of a selection of bicycles on display at the Stanley Show of 1888

Cricket in Coventry
Cricket played on Grey Friars Green, Coventry

Margaret of Anjou / Shaw
MARGARET OF ANJOU queen of Henry VI, daughter of Rene d Anjou, - with her court from a tapestry in St Marys Hall, Coventry

Coventry General View
A general view of Coventry, Warwickshire

Coventry / Jarrold 1905
Coventry, Warwickshire: a distant view of the city

Cover design, Triumph Motor Cycles, Advance List
Triumph Motor Cycles, Advance List, cover design of sales brochure, Triumph Engineering Company, Coventry Date: circa 1962

Mapleton Hotel, Coventry Street, London
Mapleton Hotel and restaurant, Coventry Street in central London just along from Piccadilly Circus

Women workers, World War I
Women workers packing fuse heads in the Coventry Ordnance Works during World War I

Old Coventry Cathedral
The altar and east end of the cathedral of Saint Michael. Building began in 1373, on the site of an earlier cathedral. Mostly destroyed during the Blitz on 14 November 1940

Triumph Tiger 100 Motorbike, Triumph Engineering Company, Coventry Date: circa 1962

Triumph De Luxe 3T Motorbike, Triumph Engineering Company, Coventry Date: circa 1962

Advert for Starley Bros. Coventry tandem tricycle 1884
A tricycle made for two. 1884

Myth / Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva rides through Coventry, keeping her promise to Leofric the Earl of Mercia. The Earl had agreed to lift exactions on his tenants, in return for her breezy ride

George Eliot / Cov Canal
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Coventry Canal = Red Deeps in " The Mill on the Floss."

St John's Church, Coventry, Warwickshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Coventry Ordinance Works Biplane Trials No 11

Queen Elizabeth II with Sir Basil Spence
The Queen talking to Sir Basil Spence, architect of the new Coventry Cathedral during her visit to the city to attend the ceremony of consecration in 1962. Date: 1962

George Eliot / Rosehill
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Home of the English novelists friends, the Brays, at Rosehill, near Coventry Date: 1819 - 1880

The Village, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire
The Village, Stoneleigh, Coventry, near Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1911

Piccadilly Circus
viewed from Coventry Street

Coventry Mystery Play

NUPE members protesting against cuts, Coventry
Striking NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) members protesting against proposed council cuts outside Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, Coventry, 10 November 1981. Date: 1981

Upper Precinct, Coventry, West Midlands. General view of the shopping precinct in Coventry with the cathedral spire in the distance. Date: 1960s

Advert for Humber Cars 1907
Advertisement for Humber Cars showing at the Olympia show, London, Date: 1907

Prince Victor Duleep Singh and his wife, formerly Lady Anne Coventry, pictured in Monte Carlo in 1910. Date: 1910

The Graphic marriage of Victor Duleep Singh & Anne Coventry
Page from The Graphic reporting on the marriage of Prince Victor Duleep Singh and Lady Anne Coventry at St. Peter's, Eaton Square on 4th January 1898. Date: 1898

Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 XK907
Royal Navy - Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 XK907 (msn WA154), at Coventry-Baginton airport in February 1960 Date: 1960

Forney Aircoupe G-ARHG
Forney F-1A Aircoupe G-ARHG (msn 5738), at Coventry-Baginton airport for the Shackleton Aviation Sales Weekend on 29 April 1961 Date: 1961

Poster for Swift Cycles, Coventry Machinists Co. Ltd. - Rue Brunel, Paris. Date: 1895

Swift - The World's Best Cycles - Swift Cycle Co. Ltd, Coventry. Date: circa 1920s

Swift - The World's Best Cycles - Swift Cycle Co. Ltd, Coventry. Date: circa 1920s

Original Poster - Triumph Cycles
Triumph Cycles, Coventry - original poster. Date: circa 1920

Boeing 737-2D6C 7T-VEE (msn 20758 / 322), of Air Algerie. Seen shortly before crashing on approach to Coventry Airport on 21 December 1994. Date: 1994

Coventry - Belgrade Theatre
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, West Midlands, England. Date: 1967

Coventry - The ruins and Coventry Cathedral
The ruins and Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, West Midlands, England. Date: 1963

Coventry - Broadgate
Broadgate, Coventry, West Midlands, England. Date: 1963

Miss Hawtin, born without arms, 18th century. Born in Coventry, she exhibited her dexterity cutting decorative watch papers with her feet all over England. From a portrait published 1774

The main entrance to New Coventry Cathedral, St. Michael's Porch, showing Jacob Epstein's sculpture of St. Michael and the Devil, and the ruins of the Old Cathedral. Date: early 1960s

Joust between Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Hereford
A joust between Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk and Henry Bolingbroke

St Michaels Church, Coventry, Warwickshire. 1871

Bomb damage, Coventry Cathedral, WW2
Bomb damage, Coventry Cathedral, November 1940, Second World War. 1940

Advert, L & H Nathan, Fancy Dress Costume
Advert for L & H Nathan, Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus, London -- Fancy Dress Costume for balls and theatricals. 1885

Singers cycle works Coventry 1896
Exterior of Singer and Company, Limited in Coventry. Date: 1896

Piper PA-24-250 Commanche G-ARIN (msn 24-1182) at Baginton (Coventry Airport). Date: 1961

Miles M.17 Monarch G-AIDE (msn 793), at the Coventry - Air Pageant / National Air Races, on 21 July 1956 Date: 1956

de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth G-AOXS (msn 85425), at Coventry-Baginton airport on 10 July 1958. Date: 1958

Fokker S.14 Mach-Trainer K-1
Koninklijke Luchtmacht - Fokker S.14 Mach-Trainer K-1 (msn 6289). at Baginton for the Coventry Air Pageant / National Air Races, on 28 May 1955

Narrow boat on Coventry Canal, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Narrow boat on the Coventry Canal Date: early 1900s

Coventry Butcher's Row Victorian period

B B Tuke

Railway sidings, Coventry

Coventry Railway Goods Yard early 1900s

C Carpenter

C Carpeter

F R Loveitt

A H Frith

Coventry Ordnance Biplane 1912 Date: 1912

AVRO Duigan Biplane, Humber Works, Coventry early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Advertisement for penny farthing bicycle from 1875

Coventry Railway Station

Coventry Railway Station early 1900s

Cross Cheaping, Coventry

Coventry Cross Cheaping early 1900s

Cook Street Gate, Coventry

Coventry Cook Street Gate early 1900s

Coventry Broadgate probably 1920s

Coventry Butcher Row early 1900s

Butcher Row, Coventry

Coventry Broadgate probably 1930s

Broadgate, Coventry

Coventry Bicycle Factory early 1900s

Bicycle factory, Coventry

Three Spires, Coventry, Warwickshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Priory Row, Coventry, Warwickshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

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