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The new Council House was designed in the Elizabethan style, [5] as stipulated by the Borough Corporation, to be in keeping with the old St Mary's Guildhall to the rear. [4] The foundation stone was laid on 12 June 1913 and the building was completed in 1917, [ 6 ] although, because of the First World War , the official opening by the Duke of ...
Coventry City Council is the local authority for the city of Coventry in the West Midlands, England. Coventry has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city.
At the time of his death, Sharp was engaged on a history of Coventry, which appeared posthumously under the title of ‘A Concise History of Coventry.’ A collection of Sharp's papers on the Coventry churches, illustrating the history of the city, was published in 1871, as ‘Coventry Antiquities,’ with a memoir by William George Fretton.
John Roderick Mutton (20 September 1947 – 15 May 2022) was a British politician. He was the Labour group leader on Coventry City Council from May 2003 [1] until May 2013, Leader of Coventry City Council from 2010 to 2013 [2] and Lord Mayor of Coventry in 1997.
The garden of International Friendship was opened in 2000 as part of the City Council's Millennium Scheme: Phoenix Initiative. [15] Lady Herbert's Garden, Hales Street. 2004 Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS (1907–1996). Whittle was a Royal Air Force officer from Coventry who made a major contribution to the invention of the jet engine. [16]
There are recycling points throughout the city for paper, glass recycling and metal / tin can recycling. In October 2006, Coventry City Council signed the Nottingham Declaration, joining 130 other UK councils in committing to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the council and to help the local community do the same.
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Museums in Coventry before the Herbert included the museum of the Coventry City Guild and the Benedictine Museum, opened by J. B. Shelton in the 1930s. However, Coventry City Council's collection of art treasures and museum pieces were housed in various buildings, and so the council acquired a half-acre site over a number of years costing £35,375.