I lived in Bishop Street Coventry when i was eight years old in 1940. I well remember the blitz Together with my Mother brother and sister we spent many nights in the underground shelters my father was an air raid warden so could not remain with us as he had to help getting people to the shelters. We lost our home on the night of the big raid and it was only many yeas later that I realised how lucky we were to survive. We returned to Ireland in 1944.: Dessie McGennity Newry.
Such horrors that night, but we rebuilt, we renewed, and we prospered. Then over the last 30 years the revolving door of the main political parties having control over the council, bent the city over a desk and allowed capitalists to rape it into the god awful state it resides in today, gone are its views of the spires from every angle looking at the city center, gone is a city center that was for ALL the peoples of Coventry, replaced by gleaming towers of private profit to handfuls of the rich leeching the debts of masses of students for that profit. All while the workers of the city continue to be pushed out of their homes and areas they've been in for generations as swarms of rentier capitalists from Birmingham and far beyond buy up scarce family housing forcing out the present tenants and carve it into shoe boxes for yet more students all with the blessing of Labour and Tories of course, causing rental prices to go insane and hammering the under 40's most of whom rent and have not seen an above inflation pay rise their entire lives. Sure, we beat Hitler, and we rebuilt, thanks to the hard work of the greatest generation that this man was a part of. Too many boomers and Gen Xers that came after them, destroyed it all again via their voting preferences and complete political end economic naivety and personal greed. Here lays formerly the great City of Coventry, now University City, for the top 20% and the students alone.
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what a brilliant production, can't wait for it to come back in November so i can see it again!
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I would love to see the full production of this hopefuly on DVD
Thanks for posting
Excellent primary source history media. This is why we must record all history however painfull.
It was amazing and really helped me with my homework
I lived in Bishop Street Coventry when i was eight years old in 1940. I well remember the blitz Together with my Mother brother and sister we spent many nights in the underground shelters my father was an air raid warden so could not remain with us as he had to help getting people to the shelters. We lost our home on the night of the big raid and it was only many yeas later that I realised how lucky we were to survive. We returned to Ireland in 1944.: Dessie McGennity Newry.
Dessie Mcgennity I respect you because I can imagine how scary it was, many blessings from Nuneaton
it’s weird this came out 12 years ago..
How old is this documentary?
Such horrors that night, but we rebuilt, we renewed, and we prospered. Then over the last 30 years the revolving door of the main political parties having control over the council, bent the city over a desk and allowed capitalists to rape it into the god awful state it resides in today, gone are its views of the spires from every angle looking at the city center, gone is a city center that was for ALL the peoples of Coventry, replaced by gleaming towers of private profit to handfuls of the rich leeching the debts of masses of students for that profit.
All while the workers of the city continue to be pushed out of their homes and areas they've been in for generations as swarms of rentier capitalists from Birmingham and far beyond buy up scarce family housing forcing out the present tenants and carve it into shoe boxes for yet more students all with the blessing of Labour and Tories of course, causing rental prices to go insane and hammering the under 40's most of whom rent and have not seen an above inflation pay rise their entire lives.
Sure, we beat Hitler, and we rebuilt, thanks to the hard work of the greatest generation that this man was a part of. Too many boomers and Gen Xers that came after them, destroyed it all again via their voting preferences and complete political end economic naivety and personal greed.
Here lays formerly the great City of Coventry, now University City, for the top 20% and the students alone.