by Blitzkid » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:23 am
Rebbonk,
To answer your question about the Council, we would have to go back to 1919 and the peace talks, we treated Germany too harshly, and in the aftermath too lightly. and from that led to Coventry's Blitz, it's a very long story. There was a lot more involved pre-war than you can imagine, like the influence of Charles Lindbergh.
But what you really wanted, in my opinion and others, they must have felt a little guilty, they had years of time to build a huge deep well either in the Burgess were the training ground (Sherbourne) was for fire fighters or in pool meadow. They would never have ran out of water, ignored the Midland Daily Telegraph warnings from citizens about low flying of the enemy.
They had offers of money from Alfred Herbert and others to rebuild the Cathedral, but they wanted to hug the limelight of the new city, a new Cathedral and a city with it's first roof car parking in Europe, thousands fled abroad.