Historian and true crime writer Adam Wood has been invited by the team at Warwick’s Institute of Engagement to take part in their 2024 Resonate Festival of Arts and Culture. The programme is a series of events and exhibitions across Coventry and Warwickshire, and promotes local community, history and culture. As part of this, on …
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Bring Back Banks!
One by one over the last decade the major banks, and Coventry Building Society, have closed their Earlsdon branches. The Earlsdon 2.0 group have launched a campaign to create a banking hub to compensate for the loss of these facilities. For an audio report from BBC CWR go to: https://bbc.in/3W6WgAw
Farewell to Hearsall
The members and congregation of Hearsall Baptist Church today said a sad farewell to the church’s home of 96 years in Queensland Avenue. Today’s Easter Sunday service is the last before they vacate the church, opened in 1961, and larger 1928 edifice known as the ‘schoolrooms’. The church has been at the heart of the …
BUS ROUTE CHANGES
The no. 51 bus routes (Stagecoach Monday-Saturday. and NX Sundays only) are being re-routed permanently away from Glendower Avenue. Heading towards Earlsdon, from the traffic lights on Allesley Old Road, they will travel along Brookside Avenue then into Wildcroft Road, up to the lights on Broad Lane. They will then turn left along Broad Lane …
“The Haunting of Blaine Manor”
Coming to the Albany Theatre, 29-30 March England, 1953. Renowned American psychic investigator Doctor Roy Earle, famous for discrediting hauntings and exposing fake mediums, is invited to attend a seance in Blaine Manor, said to be the most haunted building in England. However, Earle’s arrival awakens something horrific within the manor’s haunted walls. As a …
Hearsall Song and Storytime
We are looking forward to our very first nursery rhyme nativity session. We’re a part of Hearsall Baptist Church: the church with the Christmas star of hope on Queensland Avenue. We would love to see you at our special lively, immersive event aimed under-5s along with their families and older siblings. It also marks the …
Hearsall Star Petition
A petition has been raised to save the Hearsall Star and parts of the Hearsall Baptist Church buildings. https://edemocracy.coventry.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?id=470&fbclid=IwAR0iXnSwjV7cxQNAVitWj6szR3SvdXoujCBdQf0EtzbxRR3EzZmYGBmX7Dw&TPID=21379241
Updated Liveable Neighbourhood Proposals
The City Council project team have reviewed the previous proposals in the light of pubic feedback. https://letstalk.coventry.gov.uk/elnproposals?fbclid=IwAR2jhJ8Kliln-FVbFLXIikzdb7C2YNEz9RgZJo2XjKHbggXkjlzskAbhfOg
Liveable Neighbourhood Meeting Arranged
Kensington Road Surgery
There is a mistake on page 25 of the December / January issue in the article on Kensington Road GP surgery. The 3rd paragraph is repeated instead of the 4th paragraph, which has been omitted but should have read as follows: “For some time, Kensington Road has been under particular pressure, as those of us …