Sky Blue City Walks

04/06/2026

28/05/2026

Cathedral Ruins are being used for filming. Disgracefully they have been allowed to erect gazebos in Villa colours!

12/05/2026

Amazed that six months after it seemed like the work was finished at Palmer Lane, the barriers are STILL up! The floods in November did gouge out thr topsoil on the banks leaving gullies which haven't been filled in, and unbelievably there's no bin when it's designed for people to sit down and eat ot drink. No sign of any work going on for months. It could genuinely be that they've forgotten to remove the fences!

10/05/2026

** EXCITING TOWER UPDATE! **

After 18 months of being closed due to restoration work, we are delighted to share the Tower Climb is reopening on Saturday 23rd May!

Weather permitting it will be open Saturday 23rd, Sunday 24th and Monday 25th May from 11-3pm each day.

Then open every Sat and Sun after.

Tickets can be bought from the Tower Shop on the day:
www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/visit/see-and-do/tower-climb

08/05/2026

Coventry Transport Museum have a new collection. Most of it they were selling in the War Memorial Park on Monday, but today I became the first owner of one of their open top bus pin badges!

27/01/2026

Visit Coventry are asking for views on on their five year action plan.

They say: "Visit Coventry need your voice, expertise, insight, and perspectives to shape the development of a new five-year Tourism Action Plan for the city of Coventry."

"They want to represent all stakeholders so please do take just 10 minutes of your time to shape a collective future and complete the survey which will directly feed into the action plan for the city."

Here's the link and below is one of my answers!
https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/CKR0Op

19/11/2025

At about 9 this morning I was at the site of a wall which made up part of the former Whitefriars Monastery, which was closed by Henry VIII in the 1530s. That wall stood for almost 500 years after that closure, until this month when Coventry City Council had it demolished.

Two hours later, I got an email from Coventry City Council asking for responses to their Heritage Strategy Survey........

Coventry City Council is developing a new strategy for heritage This means helping more people to discover, celebrate and protect Coventry’s rich history and cultural identity. Our aim is for everyone to have the chance to connect with Coventry’s past and shape its

14/11/2025

Photos to go with the video previously posted of the last Palmer Lane update.

14/11/2025

Palmer Lane looks pretty much finished, though whether all the landscaping on the banks survives today is another matter! More photos on the page.

14/11/2025

Moonlight Sonata Blitz map on display at Coventry Cathedral this weekend. Speaking to the bloke who made it, he says it's really accurate in the City Centre but not so much as you move out to (my example) Hillfields & Stoke as the records are incomplete (in terms of what went in which bombing). Interestingly the original Daimler works by the canal wasn't marked on the OS map, but the one at end of Sandy Lane was.