{"id":755899,"date":"2026-08-31T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755899\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:40:10","slug":"rare-footage-and-photos-of-coventry-on-display-at-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755899\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare footage and photos of Coventry on display at exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An exhibition showing visual records of a city&#8217;s past and present will bring together three collections for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coventry Then &amp; Now will feature archive photographs of the city, rare film footage of the construction of Coventry Cathedral and contemporary images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exhibition, which opens on 11 September, tells the story of more than 70 years of history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alan Denyer, head of LTB Showrooms, the volunteer-run community arts venue where the exhibition will be held, said: &#8220;When you walk round Coventry, you think you have seen it all, but a good photograph can see a new image, a new angle, and there is some really great stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exhibition showing visual records of a city&#8217;s past and present will bring together three collections for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-755899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}