Broadgate

Hi all, The mention of Broadgate, more often a term meaning our city centre, is in our local news again for the same reason, another store closing. Why is it news & why should we be surprised? I venture into Coventry several times each week, but rarely to buy goods. My near neighbours can't remember the last time that they visited Broadgate. I have my groceries delivered or like my neighbours, visit my local shopping mall, the Arena, where there is free car parking. Why should they go anywhere else? Most folk can only consume so much, no matter how well off they are, so with at least five Coventry outskirts comprehensive shopping malls, what else did the planners expect when developing these retail parks, than the current headline that Coventry is a ghost town. They are not my words. That's a local paper headline. Ghost town Coventry.

Tamworth is exactly the same Philip. The only time I go any where near is the doctors or the dentist. Extortionate parking fees. Who is going to pay that when you can go to the large shopping centre, Ventura Park, park free and get what you want. I think the towns who had the foresight to join their shopping on to the existing town have done better, like Solihull.

Hi Anne, Thank you for that. My Drs & Dentists are local in Holbrooks.

Wilko now closed.

Another from David Fry - unknown (Godiva Procession?) event -

And another circa 1859!

I've always loved that atmospheric old photo, it's super! He has the same one as me, but they're cropped differently.

I almost missed the first one. Great angle. I don't think that I've ever seen the roof detail and windows on the City Hotel before.

I love the wrought iron balconies.