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The relocated timber-framed buildings on Spon Street indicate with better town planning, and less WWII bomb damage, Coventry might be thought of as more related to Stratford (upon Avon), than the most southerly area of the West Midlands.
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You're right - that street is lovely, shame it's so short. my grandparents lived and worked in the city before and through through the bombing, I should maybe ask them sometime if the rest was like that.
Whadaya know. We found some culture there :)
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better town planning,
Iirc the bomb damage was the catalyst for redesign of urban space to allow big trucks to drop off goods to shops. Prior to this all the central streets were too narrow, similar to 'the shambles' in York.
christianSpaceman
rhb
I grew up near Coventry. Can't say I ever noticed anything particularly cultural there.
Wasn't the Ring Road the first of its kind? Maybe they mean that...