Historic Cities
Explore Coventry in 1935
AI rebuilds Coventry street by street, and you explore through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction
Coventry, Motor City, 1935
Coventry in 1935 sits where medieval streets and timbered houses press close against the expanding motor factories that now shape daily life. The walk shows the city five years before the 1940 Blitz, moving from station approaches through the Bull Ring and Bayley Lane to motor yards and a skyline marked by three medieval spires.
25 scenes, 16 streets, squares and views, 9 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Coventry as it stood in 1935 (“History of Coventry”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Station Approach
- 2. Coventry Station Forecourt
- 3. Broadgate Amid Change
- ↳ Picture Palace Foyer · interior
- 4. The Council House
- 5. Bull Ring
- ↳ Bull Ring Market Hall · interior
- 6. Butcher Row
- ↳ Butcher's Stall · interior
- 7. Bayley Lane
- 8. Ford's Hospital Courtyard
- ↳ Timbered Almshouse Chamber · interior
- 9. St Mary's Guildhall
- ↳ Guildhall Great Hall · interior
- 10. Spon Street
- ↳ Tudor Inn Parlour · interior
- 11. Spon End Canal Basin
- 12. Foleshill Motor Yard
- ↳ Works Yard Shiftroom · interior
- 13. Radford Road Works
- ↳ Motor Assembly Shed · interior
- 14. Smithford Street
- 15. St Michael's Exterior
- ↳ Cathedral Nave · interior
- 16. Three Spires View