ahhh coventry
i lived there for 25 years

We have a leisure center that's supposed to represent the body of elephant
the only time i ever made it do this was when i walked out of the eclipse venue one night.

We have a ringroad that im informed is a nightmare to travel on but links up all the important place like argos , the railway station , halfords , the hospital and hillfields the central area to score drugs @

The town centre that was once a 70's concrete pukepile has now risen from the ashes as a spaceage junior architects wetdream. It actually makes the bullring look good.

The only nightclubs we did /do have they shut down for the most part
the eclipse was deemed too much fun , the pink parrot for those that can remember it was as its name suggests a pile of pink fluff. Fatty arbuckles on the stoney stanton road i cant even begin to describe for fear of climbing on a window ledge.

The football team - don't get me started i wont stop. I still haven't recovered from the elation of 1987 and the complete mental destruction which followed after the blues relegation.

But for all the bad things Coventry has the people seem to ride through it like it doesn't matter like proper troopers. I have to say although i have now abandoned my home town for Bristol I do sometimes find myself wanting to smoke a cigarette again whilst ambling down the burges watching the local transport buses kick up diesel smoke in my face and having the shine on my shoes scuffed by under-age mothers telling me to "fuck off out the way" as they try to escape the exit of sainsbury's.
(Cov Boy, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 16:58, 1 reply)

If
you were the sort of person who frequented the Eclipse, you may recall the pub nearby called the Jubilee.
That was the first place I ever saw where large coloured gentlemen would stand outside with large bars of what looked like Cadbury's Dairy Milk, but which was of course, hashish (though I'm sure some poor twat got chocolate rather than hash somewhere along the line. It wasn't the sort of place where you could return it to Customer Service for a refund). In broad daylight. With shooters in their waistbands.

Quite an education for wide-eyed 17yr olds like us travelling into Cov to score.

Knocked down for accomodation for cunting students now. RIP
(Rsoles, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 19:42, closed)

rsoles
i do remember the jubilee.

I checked out the area where the eclipse building used to sit on my last visit but it seems the student accommodation has long gone too unless im missing something ? and I think from my quick drive by that the area is now nothing more than a car park ? I could be wrong but i have just took a squizz on google streetmaps and it seems to re-affirmed what i saw last time i passed their in the car... just tarmac :(

For all the bad things the people of Coventry have and do endure on a daily basis i have to say nothing seems to crush their spirits. I have also met the best kind of conversationalists whilst in and around Coventry whilst i lived there. There is something about being downtrodden that unites people maybe ?
(Cov Boy, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 11:20, closed)