Coventry Blitz eighty fifth anniversary – Coventry City Council

As town comes collectively to mark the eighty fifth anniversary of the fateful evening of 14 November 1940, various public occasions and actions have been organised across the anniversary.

Whilst town will at all times keep in mind and honour the various lives misplaced throughout this era of Coventry’s historical past, town additionally continues to work in the direction of peace and bringing communities collectively within the spirit of friendship. And, on this eighty fifth anniversary, we move on the baton from the technology who made that first determination for peace to a brand new technology of Coventrians. We need our metropolis’s story to encourage folks to proceed the work of reconciliation internationally.

The anniversary of the Blitz, additionally falls into Coventry’s annual Peace Festival, an annual month of occasions, actions and workshops the place Coventry’s communities come collectively to advertise town as a City of Peace and Reconciliation.

List of occasions

• Civil Service and Vigil, Coventry Cathedral and Cathedral Ruins
• Remembrance Sunday, War Memorial Park
• Remembrance Sunday, Civilian Service, London Road Cemetery
• Poppy Drop, West Orchards Shopping Centre, Coventry City Centre
• Blitz tour of St Mary’s Guildhall,  St Mary’s Guildhall, St Mary’s Street, Coventry
• Blitz-themed historical past stroll, Sherbourne Valley
• Talking Birds Theatre Company  – It takes a metropolis

Promotional gives

Quite a few venues are additionally providing particular offers on lodging over the Blitz commemoration weekend and on different chosen dates.

The Telegraph Hotel, Corporation Street, Coventry

The resort is providing particular offers on lodging on the resort over the Blitz commemoration weekend, plus on different chosen dates.

Date(s): 14, 15 and 16 November and different chosen dates

For additional data, please e mail gross sales@telegraph-hotel.com or go to www.telegraph-hotel.com

Ramada Hotel, The Butts, Coventry

• 14 November – £85 Bed & Breakfast single occupancy
• 15 November – £85 room solely, £14 extra breakfast