But while Coventry is no longer the ‘motor city’, the legacy of the industry lives on, and many names we once associated with ...

Chris Egan was born in Coventry in 1968. His dad moved to the city from Castlelough, in Portroe in Co Tipperary, when he was 19. His mum moved to the city with her sisters from Ballywogs ...

If you were to stand in Broadgate, in the city centre ... the tower blocks from the 1960s and 1970s and the final phase of the expansion of suburban Coventry. Places such as Allesley Park ...

Coventry and Bristol City were facing each other in a winner ... After playing for Burnley, Merrington had moved to Bristol City in the early 1970s and adds: “A thing that bothered me was ...

Read more: Coventry city centre footfall down 55 per cent compared ... he recalls the city centre of the 1970s and 80s, where 2-Tone was influencing the city and country as a whole.

Intershop opened on ... in the 1970s had been brave at the time. Shoe business owner Dennis Davison had set up the store with other traders sharing the lease they had got from the city council ...

which will also delve into the city's wider black music heritage. 2 Tone music started in Coventry in the 1970s and was a blend of Jamaican reggae, ska and British punk music. Panel discussions ...

The footballing gods have played a blinder, then, pairing the Coventry City star up with one of England's finest ever goalscoring midfielders - and his childhood hero. READ MORE: Inside Frank ...

Coventry was unveiled last week as the UKs next City of Culture, a milestone in the city’s decades-long battle to shed an image of post-industrial decline. The scenes of despair there were ...

After the violence across the UK this summer, British Asians recalled the 1970s and 1980s ... in the Earlsdon area of Coventry Previously a prosperous city, Coventry had been hit "particularly ...