The more I walked around Coventry the more I liked it. Despite the dull and wet weather, I still managed to get about without trouble, it’s a nice compact city. Above is the “Glass Bridge”, it has to be said a little pointless as it doesn’t seem to actually bridge anything! It does go over the last bit of the remaining medieval walls of the city, so it does provide a good view! I still like it, and it’s spiral at one end that helps reduce the gradient, and lands right at the door of the Transport Museum.
Coventry was a big cloth making area that employed a large percentage of it’s population. With the coming of the industrial revolution, production shifted to amongst other things watch making, in time, some of this ability became sewing machine manufacture, that production technology shifted to making bicycles, then someone had the bright idea of sticking a motor on one, so the motorbike was born. Later someone thought why not put on two seats, and so the car came into being. A simplified history for sure, one spread across the world, but I doubt there is any other city that has that history in one place, and a complete manufacturing record from sewing machines to cars, in one city over 200 years! “British Black Cabs” are the last remaining car manufacturer left in the area! Above an early bike – if you like bikes there are 300 here!
A line of Coventry history!
Chatter: All of the B/W images are film, made with a Canon EOS30 and the 40mm STM lens. Ilford HP5 developed in D23. The colour images are from the 13 mega pixel camera in a Motorola 13 phone.
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