It was not just a construction project but am opportunity for residents to find out more about the river and its history, he said.
“It is said that Coventry’s very existence, going as far back as 700 AD, is because of the River Sherborne. It’s Coventry’s foundational river.
“People came and settled in Coventry because of the river itself. Coventry owes a lot of its industrial history to the river, loads of working mills, a lot of the sort of cloth dyeing which is obviously the composition of the river itself. That’s where we got Coventry Blue from.”
The project is a collaboration between Coventry City Council, Historic Coventry Trust, Severn Trent Water, and the Environment Agency.