Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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Tue 6th Nov 2018 1:26pm
Just a quick update folks. I've been asked if I can put the following article online, which is from the Coventry Society newsletter....
The campaign to save the Coventry Cross from demolition continues after Coventry City Council withdrew its own planning application last month. Now, in a carefully worded statement Shearer Property Group is reported in Coventry's weekly paper 'The Observer' as saying: the Cross was currently in a restricted location overshadowed by a number of buildings...its relocation would provide the opportunity to create a public square and enable significant improvements...'
In its formal application (FUL/2018/2655) the property group is asking for the removal of the Cross to enable the redesign of the public space and reconfigure an existing terrace to facilitate a larger seating area for a new restaurant. So what is all the controversy about?
Need for a proper Heritage Statement
The site is in the city's prime conservation area next to important listed buildings |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Tue 6th Nov 2018 3:00pm
Sounds like another attempt to sneak something under the radar again to me!  |
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Prof
Gloucester
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Fri 9th Nov 2018 11:08pm
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Sat 17th Nov 2018 3:22pm
Can you actually believe this Coventry Cross monument set to be relocated.
Councillor O'Boyle "But we want to use the best of the old with the best of the new.
It has never been our intention just to knock the damned thing down."
I suggest we get O'Boyle moved.
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Prof
Gloucester
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Sat 17th Nov 2018 3:48pm
Seconded Neil! That 'damned monument indeed'. My concern is, once they take it apart, there will be some excuse to break it up and we shall never see it again! When the cross was attacked by Puritans who set out to destroy it they were met by butchers with cleavers! Hope we can find more butchers if need be!! |
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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Sat 17th Nov 2018 4:34pm
I just read that, and was wondering if being illiterate is a mandatory qualification for being a journalist nowadays? They state that the cross is set to be relocated to a position " closer to the cathedral quarter". It's already in the cathedral quarter, as they report in the article - how does it get any closer?
They also say it should be positioned " opposite the road from Holy Trinity Church". What does that even mean? |
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Heathite
Coventry
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Sat 17th Nov 2018 5:35pm
Re "opposite the road from Holy Trinity Church"
I would read/interpret that to mean 'adjacent Holy Trinity Church'.
Because it's a sort of double negative.
Actually - it's too difficult to decipher.
You couldn't get a schoolboy/girl to write that drivel without first removing their brain.
Is that a pre-requisite for gaining employment a l |
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Robthu
Coventry
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Sat 17th Nov 2018 7:12pm
What is even worse, is, OUR Councillor O'Boyle might actually have said this. |
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Osmiroid
UK
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Sat 17th Nov 2018 11:34pm
Absolutely disgusting that people with money can pay for whatever they want to be destroyed, against the wishes of the citizens of Coventry, against the history of Coventry. I wonder how much behind the scenes bribery went on from, for example, the 1936 destruction onwards.
The best thing for Coventry would be the sacking of O'Boyle and his henchmen.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Sun 18th Nov 2018 10:12am
Osmiroid,
I find that a bit heavy, what makes you think the citizens of Coventry at that time were against the destruction of these damp smelly old rat infested buildings to be replaced by new modern buildings and streets. I loved the old Coventry but one has to be aware of that 'time'. You were not going to get tanks and lorries full of soldiers in those streets and Coventry were well aware of what the future could hold in 1936.
Coventry itself was making some very modern vehicles that needed modern roads, bridges, etc.
No, it was a period that cried out for modernisation. |
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Osmiroid
UK
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Sun 18th Nov 2018 10:32am
I have seen several mentions that people were against it in the 30s, here is one. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
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Sun 18th Nov 2018 10:42am
The Warwickshire Naturalists and Archaeologist Field Club held in Warwick Museum had a lot to say about the Coventry Cross in the late 19th century. Maybe someone can find out. I believe at that time there was a Old Cross Magazine printed as well. |
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Midland Red
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Sun 18th Nov 2018 10:50am
There does seem to be much concern about moving (yes, moving) what is actually a modern replica, which is not actually sited in the position of the original. If there is an alternative site for it, where it might even be seen by more people than its present position, then I see little wrong with the proposal. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry
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Sun 18th Nov 2018 11:48am
Its more the amount of money the Council are using to do it when the NHS/Schooling/Policing etc. are cash strapped and the attitude from an unelected Councillor basically saying he can do what he likes that gets my goat |
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flapdoodle
Coventry
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Sun 18th Nov 2018 2:06pm
You cannot reason about pre war Coventry with the mindset of the 21st century. The old city was widely regarded as an unhealthy slum with poor mortality rates and public health problems. It had also grown dramatically. |
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