The day after the Coventry blitz the army took full command of Coventry it brought in every kind of help that was needed, it was army engineers that told the Council and the brewery that the White lion Hotel was a danger to everyone, either pull it down or fence it off, which the Council did, no question, or any dispute, until 1942, when the brewery and Coventry fully expected the White lion and Smithford street would be rebuilt, in fact the Brewery was so confident that it showed a gallery of it's future plans, inside the unsafe Hotel through a hole in the east wall of the second floor.1942. this was disbanded after a few weeks because of safety.it remained that way for a couple of years,when all of Coventry
where told Smithford street and the white lion hotel wasn't in the plans of the new city that was to be built. Blitz kid.