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Coventry today

where is Coventry?

Coventry City Council
http://www.coventry.gov.uk/

Virtual Coventry
http://www.exponet.co.uk/peter/

Knowhere Guide to Coventry
http://www.knowhere.co.uk/428.html

Spon-line
http://www.sponend.org.uk/index3.htm

Virtual Spon End
http://www.sponend.org.uk/virtual/tour.htm

Spon Street Goes Up In Smoke
http://www.cwn.org.uk/999/9812/981201-spon-fire.htm

Jerry Elford Model Making Studio
http://www.fernside.co.uk/jerryelford/index.html

Coventry history

watchmakers' trademarks
http://www.coventry.org.uk/heritage/watchmaking/trademarks.htm

CWN -- News & Information for Coventry & Warwickshire
watchmaking website
http://www.coventry.org.uk/heritage/watchmaking/

Bahne Bonniksen and the 'karrusel'
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/3384/bonick.htm

Spon End and Lower Coundon History Group
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/3384/

Spon End Building Preservation Trust
http://members.tripod.com/~AD1390/

ancient history of Coventry
http://www.exponet.co.uk/peter/ancient.htm

horology

the History of Timekeeping links page
http://www.horology.com/horology/hs-histo.html

British Horological Collections
http://www.bhi.co.uk/collect.htm

British Horological Institute
http://www.bhi.co.uk/index.html

The National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/

The British Museum
http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/index.html

Science Museum Galleries:
Time Measurement
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/galleries/time.html

Manor House Museum of Art and Horology,
Bury St Edmunds
Curator: Viscount Midleton
http://www.stedmunds.co.uk/lifestyle/manor.html

The Horology Collection at the
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~rerandal/ALBERT/colclocks.html

organisations

Coventry Archives
Mandela House,
Bayley Lane
Coventry CV1 5RG
Tel: 01203 832418
Fax: 01203 832421
http://coventry-city.co.uk/archives/home.htm

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Jorden Well
Coventry CV1 5QP
Tel: 01203 832381
Fax: 01203 832410
Contains a display of watches made in Coventry

The Coventry Watch Museum Project Ltd
c/o Right On Tyme
23 The Burges
Coventry CV1 1HL
E-mail: 100624.1127@compuserve.com

Coventry Cathedral and Visitors' Centre
7 Priory Row
Coventry CV1 5ES
Tel: 01203 227597

Museum of British Road Transport
St Agnes Lane
Hales Street
Coventry CV1 1PN
Tel: 01203 832425
Fax: 01203 832465
http://www.mbrt.co.uk/

Tourist Information Centre
Bayley Lane
Coventry
Tel: 01203 832303/4

further reading

Coventry City Centre Trail by George Demidowicz and Mark Singlehurst, Civic Design, City Planning Services, City Development Directorate, Coventry.

Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate, 1996.

Moments in Time: The history of the Coventry watch industry (vol. 1), Coventry Watch Museum Project Ltd, 1995.

Spon Street Townscape Scheme: A guide to the history of the street and the buildings in the scheme, by George Demidowicz and Mark Singlehurst, Civic Design, City Planning Services, City Development Directorate, Coventry, 1993.