Knowra Coventry Coventry Coventry is a city in the West Midlands of England, historically shaped by textile manufacturing and now known for engineering, its cathedral, and its role in the English motor industry.
West Midlands : A region of central England containing the metropolitan county of the same name and surrounding counties. Coventry lies in this English region, near the rural settings associated with Evans’s youth.
Coventry Blitz : The German air raid on Coventry on 14 November 1940, which devastated the city center. The raid destroyed much of the medieval center and transformed Coventry’s postwar identity.
Mary Ann Evans : The English novelist who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, born at South Farm, Warwickshire, in 1819. Evans grew up in rural Warwickshire communities near Coventry and knew the city.
British motor industry : The manufacture of cars and related vehicles in the United Kingdom. Coventry became one of its historic centers of production and design.
Postwar reconstruction of Coventry : The rebuilding of Coventry’s city center after its severe destruction during the Second World War. Reconstruction reshaped the center and gave the city a distinctive postwar plan.
River Sherbourne : A small river that flows through Coventry, much of it now culverted beneath the city. Its course helped shape Coventry’s settlement and remains part of the city’s geography.
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum : A public art gallery and museum in Coventry, with collections on local history, archaeology, and visual art. Its collections document the city’s development and cultural life.
Lady Godiva : An eleventh-century English noblewoman associated with a later legend of riding unclothed through Coventry. Her legend became one of Coventry’s best-known cultural symbols.
Jaguar Cars : A British luxury-car marque founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922. The company’s manufacturing history is closely tied to Coventry.
Coventry Ring Road : A major ring road encircling Coventry’s city center, built in stages during the postwar period. Its construction embodied the modernist transport planning used in Coventry’s rebuilding.
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