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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 ...
Samuel Watson, who was sheriff of Coventry in 1682, became famous for making an ingenious astronomical clock; John Carte, a watchmaker from Coventry had set up his own business in London by 1695, and the mayor of Coventry in 1727 was a watchmaker named George Porter. The firm of "Vale" was established in the late 1740s, and "Rotherhams" set up ...
A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. A council estate is a building complex containing a number of council houses and other amenities like schools and shops. Construction took place mainly from 1919 to 1980s, as a result of the Housing Act 1919. Though more council ...
1 Friargate, Coventry, CV1 2GN: Council's main offices. The council meets at the Council House on Earl Street, which was completed in 1917. [31] In 2017 the council moved its main offices to 1 Friargate, a newly-built office building near Coventry railway station. [32] [33] Martin Reeves, Chief Executive 2008–2023, seen on 20 October 2012
In 1986, the West Midlands County Council was abolished and Coventry became administered as an effective unitary authority in its own right. Coventry is administered by Coventry City Council, controlled since 2010 by the Labour Party, and led since May 2016 by George Duggins. [107] The city is divided up into 18 Wards each with three councillors.
The building was built in the medieval style between 1340 and 1342 and much altered and extended in 1460. [1]The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of the merchant guild of St Mary, [2] and subsequently of the united guilds of the Holy Trinity, St Mary, St John the Baptist and St Katherine, [3] which merged in 1392.
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]
At the age of 29, [4] Gibson was appointed as Coventry's first city architect and planning officer. The re-planning of Coventry City Centre began before the Blitz in 1940–1941; indeed, Gibson produced the initial plan to rebuild part of the city in early 1940, in order to resolve the problems of overcrowding and congestion of the medieval town centre. [5]