Vincent Dowd asks what Coventry’s success in the City of Culture competition could mean for the city, formerly renowned for “permanent, grimy decline”.
Going to school in Coventry in the 1970s, there was what probably nobody yet called a shared narrative about the big, busy city we all lived in.
The storyline was a bit depressing, but it was pretty undeniable.
Coventry had attracted tens of thousands of newcomers, such as my parents, in the 1950s... Keep reading on BBC
Going to school in Coventry in the 1970s, there was what probably nobody yet called a shared narrative about the big, busy city we all lived in.
The storyline was a bit depressing, but it was pretty undeniable.
Coventry had attracted tens of thousands of newcomers, such as my parents, in the 1950s... Keep reading on BBC