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@surin-jc7zm 6 күн бұрын

Some beautiful buildings we had back in the day

@davedear929 27 күн бұрын

Coventry was a great city ..we led the country in industry and commerce.. machine tools..cars ..aircraft ...weaving ..clocks and watches. And much more. WTF happened we can't blame everything on WW2. great memories..thanks Dave from Coventry.

@matildamartin2811 2 ай бұрын

Architecture went to pot in the fifties and has never recovered !

@VictorGate 2 ай бұрын

Do people really think that Coventry as the prosperous almost zero unemployment City of the 1960s could have existed with Broadgate and the surrounding areas as shown in the video? Coventry and Plymouth were first off the mark with redevelopment after the war, and though there are errors it represented the best thinking of the time. If The Luftwaffe hadn't done it some other developer than Ravenseft with the City Council would have had to, in order to attract the big retail businesses of the day. When I lived there between 1944 and 1972 it was a good place to live, what happened after the Motor Industry self destructed is another matter.

@lesleybrittain4782 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing these photos.. really enjoyed them 😊

@-Atmos1 6 ай бұрын

A beautiful place

@mel4333 7 ай бұрын

Wow the old Coventry really looked better than now.

@paulmcginty6530 8 ай бұрын

I know life is of the paramount importance in war, but War is one almighty slap in the face for past generations of builders/craftsmen who took great pride, spending many years building landmarks, bridges, monuments only for them to be completely obliterated from history.....Its a damn shame 😟

@aca-cellos Жыл бұрын

Love your list! I had never heard of Misere Mei or Ne Irascaris Domine before, and they are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

@phoenixkelly8936 Жыл бұрын

I was born and bred in coventry and I have done so much research on our home town definitely nothing like the place is now unfortunately 😔

@WanderingSoleTV Жыл бұрын

Amazing, beautiful!

@Charlesputnam-bn9zy Жыл бұрын

The church spires are astounding !

@Charlesputnam-bn9zy Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Germanazi predilection for Baedeker Raids, Vandal atavism oblige. They were the 1st to bomb London in WW1 by Zeppelin air ships.

@MarkHarrison733 8 ай бұрын

The RNAS had already bombed cities in Germany in 1914.

@highmark2415 Жыл бұрын

This is beyond funny it’s hysterical 😂😂😂😂

@Mick_English Жыл бұрын

Terrible music choice

@bens1972 2 жыл бұрын

It’s interesting how so many cities in Britain that were impacted by the Luftwaffe that are now victims of Britain’s dreadful post-war town planning. Serious damage was done by the bombing, but even more so by the subsequent ‘improvements’. In fact, I don’t really see much improvement today. With banal, generic architectural non-entities, whose vernacular free design can be seen repeated in cities up and down the country. Coventry, like it’s neighbour Birmingham; once Proud industrialised cities, now stand without any identity. The victims of cheap town planning. Now even into the 2020’s the subsequent town planning sees yet more banal architectural monstrosities, like the library in Birmingham; and the Bull-Ring shopping centre that is fading like it’s predecessor. Leaving the brash shop frontage of £1 shops and bookmakers to infiltrate as the nails in the coffin are prepared. Unfortunately, unlike Germany cities, architects detested the pastiche (and still do); town planners didn’t have neither the purse strings, nor the foresight to invest properly. Which is why Dresden’s ‘pastiche’ is still standing and in Britain countless millions are wasted on pulling down Bull-Rings and replacing them with the same ineffectual replacements.

@robtyman4281 Жыл бұрын

Plymouth was also made worse by over zealous town planners in the 50's and 60's. Southampton too.

@alfindigo 2 жыл бұрын

The town planners had a clean slate to rebuild Coventry after the war. It all went well till the late ‘70’s, now it’s just a mess.

@daynaholgate7264 2 жыл бұрын

I wish my own city was still looking like that these days!!!

@thethe6232 2 жыл бұрын

It use to be a lovely place ! Jesus , WTF happened! The City council can’t blame it all on the Luftwaffe! I think their dodgy deals with the University has some part to play !

@ralphbernhard1757 2 жыл бұрын

For hundreds of years, the British Empire went around the world bomb(ard)ing and terrorizing nations around the world. Not a week goes by and some new attrocity is unearthed: for example, search "The Bombardement of Alexandria in 1882" (then click on "images"). *Looks a lot like Coventry, doesn't it?* Kagoshima, Copenhagen, Canton, Sebastopol (Krim War), and and dozens of others. Such fun to have propaganda ministers coining the term "Copenhagenization" to mock the children they burnt alive... From wiki, regarding the practice: "...the Political Register: 'Oh, that example of Copenhagen has worked wonders in the world!...I (would) like to see the name of that city become a verb ... *'cities will be copenhagenized' is an excellent phrase.* It's very true, that Sir John Warren would copenhagenize New York with very little trouble..." Excellent indeed... When they invaded half the planet, their "heroes" wrote stories about how exiting it was to "dodge bullets" and bomb(ard) countries without declaring war. The locals defending their own? Mowing down natives armed with spears, with machine guns? Pfffft. Nobody cared... Famines accompanied by racial slurs of "breeding like rabbits anyway", sticking women and kids into concentration camps, scorched earth policies, torture chambers, slave labor camps (called "penal colonies"), and terror bombing innocents called Air Policing... *No doubt getting a bit of their own medicine when their own cities burned down, and V-2s killed their kids, and they finally knew what it felt like. Not so "exiting" dodging rockets, right? Not so nice "reaping" what had been "sown" for a few hundred years, eh?* All of a sudden, they were sooooo tired of all that "Empire"-stuff... Brits are nice today, but back then they simply had to be taught a lesson they wouldn't forget.

@Drobium77 Жыл бұрын

And what country do you come from?

@ralphbernhard1757 Жыл бұрын

@@Drobium77 I'm already one step ahead ☺️ "In rhetoric and ethics, "two wrongs don't make a right" and "two wrongs make a right" are phrases that denote philosophical norms. *"Two wrongs make a right" has been considered as a fallacy of relevance, in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation.* Its antithesis, "two wrongs don't make a right", is a proverb used to rebuke or renounce wrongful conduct as a response to another's transgression. *"Two wrongs make a right" is considered "one of the most common fallacies in Western philosophy".* en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don't_make_a_right I'm from South Africa, but it doesn't matter how many wrongs were historically carried by South Africa, because these wrongs have nothing to do with the wrongs carried out by the British Empire...

@Drobium77 Жыл бұрын

@@ralphbernhard1757 and the wrongs of the British empire have nothing to do with modern Britain. Leave it in the past, or we will never be able to move forward

@ralphbernhard1757 Жыл бұрын

@@Drobium77 Whoever said "divide and rule" has ended?

@Drobium77 Жыл бұрын

it hasn't, but it's not us anymore@@ralphbernhard1757

@peterhodgkinson9287 3 жыл бұрын

Coventry Cathedral should have been rebuilt as the previous. Today it looks grotesque & incongruous. Somehow I can't believe that those who advocated the style believed in it. Was it an attempt to create social realism? It has more in common with a building from??

@nottmjas 3 жыл бұрын

Peter, I disagree with you regarding the new cathedral as its the only post war building that shouldn't be pulled down. Broadgate House at the top end of Hertford Street should be the first to go, followed by Cathedral Lanes and the Primark building (the rear of the building from Cross Cheaping is hideous). Make Broadgate the front garden of the city it once was.

@paulbroderick8438 2 жыл бұрын

Alfred Herbert offered financial assistance to restore the cathedral to its once glorious self, however, arrogance and 'progressive' thoughts got in the way no doubt. The 'new' cathedral is pathetic. You have only to consider what they did to Butcher Row as an example! Carry on Sargeant Major, carry on!

@jimmorrison2657 8 ай бұрын

@@nottmjas When it was a garden, all of those buildings you mentioned were already there. The Broadgate in this video was not a garden.

@nottmjas 8 ай бұрын

@@jimmorrison2657 you're dead right: the layout of modern Broadgate as a square is postwar. The prewar Broadgate was narrower, but still wide, and longer terminating somewhere within the footprint of the Primark building. What I should have said was that the northern, western, and Hertford Street sides of the square are way past their shelf life and should be redeveloped. Cathedral Lanes is just awful full stop.

@jimmorrison2657 8 ай бұрын

@@nottmjas Ideally speaking, I think you are right. Those buildings in Broad gate should be demolished and replaced with something decent. But I just think that if the council demolished them they would put something even worse in their place. I don't say that everything the council does is crap, but a lot of it is. E.g. They knocked the Hippodrome down, which was quite a nice building, and replaced it with a curved wall.

@wobblydangly 3 жыл бұрын

Why was it so badly built back? Compare and contrast with German cathedral cities like Cologne

@carloakley5367 3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't coventry people building it🤪

@Dilley_G45 2 жыл бұрын

I lived near Cologne in the 2000s. It is very ugly 1950s and 1960s architecture mostly. The cathedral miraculously survived the bombing including a dedicated USAAF terror attack designed to destroy it (to block the surrounding roads with rubble, an idea as mad as hell). Most of inner city Cologne is ugly ugly ugly

@commenty6233 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Coventry there's soo much bombed areas Like about 30% of them are churches

@Eseroth666 3 жыл бұрын

No mention of Dumpys? I'm shocked! Had a few good nights in the Swallows in Warsop many years ago...

@davidhayes9045 4 жыл бұрын

I know Coventry very well, so i recognise quite a few places in this video. Great! Thanks...

@emilyrowland512 4 жыл бұрын

I live in warsop it’s terrible

@emilyrowland512 4 жыл бұрын

I’m dying of laughter 😂😂😂😂😂

@markjohnson8276 4 жыл бұрын

I would have loved to be able to of walked the streets before the war, must have been amazing. Some of the recent work they have completed has improved certain areas, hopefully that continues throughout those areas.

@commenty6233 3 жыл бұрын

They are still working very hard on it even today Just to recognize the city one more time...

@kennethmarburger9747 4 жыл бұрын

Sad. I was there. The ruins r terrible to see. Very emotional experience.

@commenty6233 3 жыл бұрын

I know I lived in there for 10 years it makes me sad that such a butiful city was bombed

@desoliver9712 4 жыл бұрын

Ironically, Sean Bean voted remain.

@bartz5641 4 жыл бұрын

Ser Pounce for the iron throne!

@TomSunderland 4 жыл бұрын

My grandma and grandad own Desco and I live across the road

@mrdrb6330 6 жыл бұрын

This little town has free car parks and free toilets and someone from the council sweeps the streets so its a clean place that's it i'm buying a house there ......

@2MelissaSue 7 жыл бұрын

Love it! Consider it shared.

@VCYT 7 жыл бұрын

The EU are gone.

@The_Reality_Filter 7 жыл бұрын

I'M KING OF THE NOOOORTH.

@jcoker423 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I guess people are now aware that the destruction was started and finished by the council/city planners. I've just been to Dresden after 30yrs, they've rebuilt the FrauenKirke and restored much else. Shame we didn't do the same.

@savvageorge 7 жыл бұрын

I agree, the city planners made a bad situation much worse for Coventry. Great to hear that Dresden has now recovered. Hopefully Coventry can follow Dresden's example and become more like the dynamic city it was in the past.

@mexdal 5 жыл бұрын

Yes most citys were rebuilt with ugly cheap buildings and tower blocks.

@c.v.yardley 8 ай бұрын

I've been to Dresden, and beautiful though it is, all the reconstructed buildings in one part of the town give it the feel of an open air museum, whereas the other 'normal' part is quite separate. I prefer Coventry Cathedral, actually, as it's much more symbolic, combining the old with the new. Also, the Frauenkirche cost nearly €200m to re-build, which is a lot of money for a mere copy.

@jcoker423 8 ай бұрын

@@c.v.yardley Thanks for your opinion. But would you prefer a rebuilt Butchers Row or the Precincts? Have you seen photos of Cov before the war? Like York, Chester.. etc. I have been to Dresden before (87) and after the rebuild a few times. I prefer the rebuild. But once again thanks.

@mel4333 7 ай бұрын

I agree

@TheUmnaya 9 жыл бұрын

отлично сделано! ..но, БОЛЕЕ ДУРАЦКИХ картинок под музыку Дорз я не видал)))

@JevaisaNY 10 жыл бұрын

The fish and chips picture was well timed.

@lakeliao8731 8 жыл бұрын

I know right

@jaytorr6701 6 жыл бұрын

Jasmine Bird damn you. We were playing karaoke at home and picked this without seeing it first. Lost it when fish and chips came up hilarity ensued 10 people fell on the ground laughing and a glass of red wine and A pint of IPA was spilled on my carpet. I need your address to send you the cleaners bill.

@jcbairmaster73 11 жыл бұрын

No,Shirebrook is the capital of Poland!

@anstonian 11 жыл бұрын

Nearby Worksop, means, ' Work hill. Sop was an old word for hill'. 'War sop' 'War hill'. Wonder if it lives up to it's name. ''Beware!.

@jcbairmaster73 11 жыл бұрын

Warsop is a lovely little place,the carrs,church,nice shopping street,two great bakeries,library,Wettons pies are the fucking biz,really nice,full o meat! A little gem of a place on the whole,I like it,always have.

@hishkinenoam1314 12 жыл бұрын

Excellent, bravo!

@morwenna69 12 жыл бұрын

AVIOD THIS PLACE AT ALL COST LOL!

@aduncansonad 12 жыл бұрын

lmfao, it lied about the nearest train station though cozz the nearest one to warsop is woodhouse

@delepiane 12 жыл бұрын

You may have to take English lessons also "...again anda agian..." Jejej. Great karaoke, thanks!

@Ulul0 12 жыл бұрын

Canto esto todas las mañanas...

@xXxFullOfGracexXx 12 жыл бұрын

OMG! Made me laugh so hard!!!

@savvageorge 13 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, maybe I should have put some paella as well? You're welcome to come to England and give me some Spanish lessons if you like.

@FromaTwistedMind 13 жыл бұрын

Good vid, lovely song! I`ll have to get my hands on this and try at next karaoke session!?.... Folks must be getting tired of me singing Roadhouse blues+ Light my fire??

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