Treasured Tales Online: Coventry Canal – Five and a half miles of history
David Fry will reveal the lost history of Coventry Canal, considering the work that went into its construction 250 years ago, which has now become peripheral to Coventry’s story.
The stretch of the Coventry Canal within the present city boundary is now more than 250 years old and was a great civil engineering project at the time. Much of what was built is still with us and provides the city with its only navigable waterway, yet it is no longer prominent in the consciousness of the general population. Being hidden away behind houses and factories, it only occasionally burst out into the open. The talk will deal with its rapid construction and its initial impact on the city and the rural neighbourhoods through which it passed and the contribution it made to the industrial development of the Foleshill area from the mid nineteenth century.
David Fry is a local historian who has co-authored a number of books on Coventry’s built environment under ‘The Coventry We Have Lost’ theme and continues to take an interest in various aspects of its urban development.
This talk is an online event only.