The black Horse, they are pulling down has no history, only that it is still serving customers over a longer time than most, and it had the fishing rites for the river.
Against the White Lion, that had political, rowdy, enemy fascist type people in the city, owned by a brewery that was hoodwinked by the council, in 1942 the White Lion held a gallery in the pub that was highly dangerous, showing it’s future in the rebuilding of the City. Like we all thought Smithford Street would be re-built, but no.
In 1936 the council did as ordered by the gov’t, it got rid of a lot of slums (Butchers Row) etc. The next stage was Broadgate, but by 1938 Coventry had placed a madman in charge that knocked down more buildings than the Blitz, replaced little of Coventry’s Heritage or History, dismissed the ancient Cathedral and drove quite a huge amount of Coventry residents from the city.
Dutchman I would welcome your thoughts on this.