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The Jigsaw of History Historical Walking Tour
The Jigsaw of History Historical Walking Tour
The Jigsaw of History Historical Walking Tour
The Jigsaw of History Historical Walking Tour
The Jigsaw of History Historical Walking Tour

The Jigsaw of History Tour

By Sky Blue City Walks
Free cancellation available
Price is £13 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 45m
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Overview

This tour zig-zags through the city centre away from the cathedrals, and takes participants on a walk through a city which has kept making history by inventing the future. It’s a history that fits together like a jigsaw, come and explore it with us.

Highlights include:

The industrial booms which saw Coventry as the centre of weaving, watch making, bikes and cars.
The most complete part of the City Wall, and learn where the Civil War really started.
The Royal Palace in the city centre where the King and Queen stayed when Coventry was the capital of England.
The storey of the inventors who brought us the bicycle and the jet engine.
Different theories as to where the phrase “Sent to Coventry” came from.
Explanations and information about of dozens of artworks around the city centre.
Details of the rich cultural history of Coventry.
Stories of the Phoenix City, the 'City of Tomorrow', risen from the ashes of the Blitz.

Activity location

  • Lady Godiva Statue
    • Broadgate,
    • Coventry, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Sky Blue City Walks
    • Broadgate
    • CV1 1NE, Coventry, England, United Kingdom

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The Jigsaw of History Tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 45 minutes2h 45m2h 45m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 09:50
Price details
£12.50 x 1 Adult£12.50
Total
Price is £12.50

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedA guided historical walk with a local guide.

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • The walk is just over two miles and should take two hours and forty-five minutes. It is mostly flat with some inclines and ramps and one small area of cobbles.
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Lady Godiva Statue
  • 15m
We start off the tour Broadgate around Godiva's Statue, at the heart of the 'City of Tomorrow', Donald Gibson's masterplan for the post-war reconstruction of Coventry.
New Buildings
  • 5m
At the last surviving former ribbon weaving factory in the City Centre, hear about the rise and fall of this industry, next to the surviving wall of the original Coventry Cathedral; St Mary's.
Sir Frank Whittle statue
  • 5m
Next to his statue, here the storey of Earlsdon born Engineer and RAF officer, Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine.
Lady Herbert's Garden
  • 15m
In and around Lady Herbert's Garden, you'll find out about the birth of the bicycle industry and how the modern bike came into being. Turn around and we see the start of the best preserved section of the Coventry City Wall, the storey of how it was built and why industrialist Alfred Herbert saved if from destruction, before hearing the tale of the one time the wall was needed, the tale of the true beginning of the English Civil War.
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  • 3m
That's right, we'll spend a couple of minutes on this tour to learn about the engineering marvel that is the Coventry Ring Road!
Millennium Place
  • 10m
Next to the Coventry Transport Museum, hear the storey of the Coventry Motor industry; How Coventry became the motor city of England and a global centre of car manufacture, and then how it almost all disappeared forever.
Palmer Lane
  • 5m
Very much off the beaten track see a few things in the heart of the city that many of the locals don't know are there.
Old Grammar School
  • 5m
  • Admission ticket not included
On one street corner, you can see the building we shouldn't call the Old Grammar School, an artwork celebrating the Coventry motor industry, and the building names after the most famous poet from the city.
Belgrade Theatre
  • 10m
Walking around the outside of the Belgrade Theatre, various artworks will be used to help tell the stories of the theatre itself, the long history of plays which Coventry was famous for, Ira Aldridge who 200 years after Othello was written became the first Black man to play the led character, and the three most prominent women of the arts in the history of the city.
Bond's Hospital
  • 5m
  • Admission ticket not included
Here we spend 5 minutes to take in a few things including the building built in1505 by Thomas Bond, which are still used for the same purpose he intended today, over 500 years later.
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist
  • 5m
  • Admission ticket not included
Outside this church, originally built as a private church for the richest in the city, your guide will explain why it is claimed to be the original of the phrase 'Sent to Coventry'.
Historic Spon Street
  • 20m
In and around Spon Street, we'll talk more about industries like dying, tanning, watchmaking and bicycles as well as how the street was for centuries one of the major roads in the country, and while not everything is as it may first seem in the area.
Coventry Market Shopping Centre
  • 5m
Just a quick pop into the market. Not on Sundays.
Bull Yard
  • 10m
In The Bull Yard and Shelton Square find out more about the 'City of Tomorrow' and the stories behind some of eclectic public artworks in the area, as well as finding out what the area had been back in days gone by.
Cheylesmore Manor House
  • 12m
  • Admission ticket not included
Here highlights of the storey of one of the real hidden gems of Coventry, Cheylesmore Manor House, a 700 year-old Royal Palace in the heart of he city.
New Union Street
  • 5m
Hear the storey of Coventry's great survivor: Greyfriars Spire.
Fords Hospital
  • 5m
A travel writer in 1902 said "Perhaps there is nothing so exquisite in the whole Kingdon as Ford's Hospital in Coventry"...
Hertford Street
  • 5m
To wind up, we spend a couple of minute looking at a handful of things in Hertford Street as we meander back to the starting point

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESLady Godiva Statue
    • Broadgate,
    • Coventry, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLESky Blue City Walks
    • Broadgate
    • CV1 1NE, Coventry, England, United Kingdom

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