Lady Godiva

This was Smithford Street, looking at the Barracks with The Magnet pub next door to the right.

Old negatives of Godiva parade on eBay. Probably 1929, not 1940.

I'd completely forgotten that during construction work for Cathedral Lanes our lovely Lady was moved temporarily to outside the Herbert -

Weird - for some reason I have no recollection of when she was there!

From the newspaper archive Rob, she was moved on the 6th November 1989 and returned almost exactly a year later on 7th November 1990.

Excellent, thank you Anne. That was a period when I rarely went into town, so I possibly missed it completely. We go a lot more nowadays, so we tend to notice a lot more of the changes.

I first saw her in about November 1991, so she's hadn't been under the tent long.

Yes Rob we had left Coventry by then so rarely went into the City even when we visited Mum and Dad. We had a connection with Cathedral Lanes and would scrub out the Tarmac sign if I could !