A Night Out in Coventry is an interactive project working with the older generation of Coventry. Objects from The Herbert's permanent collections have been explored and discussed, handled and observed, to create this website showcasing the forties and fifties era in Coventry. Find out more about the project >>

Select who you would like to accompany you on your Night Out in Coventry to discover what it was like to be a teenager in the bustling 1940s and 50s:

Go Out with Audrey A wife, mother and qualified Radiographer.

Go Out with Syd from Courtaulds - Manufacturer of Man-made fibres

Go Out with Sheila A Coventry Art School graduate and keen dressmaker

Go Out with Gerry Ex army, employee at Armstrong Whitworth in Baginton.

Go Out with John A trainee newspaper photographer and theatre go-er