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Coventry c1910. OMG!

Working on the previously unseen JJ Ward #autochrome collection from 1910. Beautiful images of a Coventry winter.

Delighted to make available a series by #richardsadler from the 1955 opening of the Umbrella Club, showing the interior of Coventry’s post-war arts club. coventry-digital.smartframe.io/p/102352/7eec3…

The extra @mirrorpix #arthurcooper images are now live via coventry.digital galleries Please get in touch if you spot something. We're adding captions to a spreadsheet. It's really easy to do! Below - who are these cherubs fro #1950sCoventry ? coventry-digital.smartframe.io/p/101478/3fec6…

#arthurcooper in the Telegraph! coventrytelegraph.net/news/history/r…

More #arthurcooper news alert! Lots more plates to scan and make available via coventry.digital, thanks to @nesky999, @BBCCWR and @bbcmtd and @covtelegraph Get in touch if you know about the images and want to contribute. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Delighted that the @bl_eap has published over 21,000 (1928-47) assets from the #hamiltonstudiosbombay archive from our #eap1117 project, including from 1939, the silent film star Sita, below. Thanks to @ArcadiaFund we will continue teaching young people care for archives.

These @PhotoMiners post cards of #Willenhall will be freely available over the bar at Willenhall social club. Ask Angela @kyneswood

Arthur Cooper on the Beeb today! Thanks to @nesky999 for the coverage of the @covcampus efforts to connect people to their heritage. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

He can never stay out of the Coventry public eye for long. Richard Sadler, until the new year, and this time, prints are for sale. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Coventry Cathedral, the morning after the raid, 15th November 1940. coventry-digital.smartframe.io/p/36233/939f08…

On this day in 1940 Coventry suffered terribly but became the city of peace and reconciliation. This image is of an evening service in a roofless and raining Coventry Cathedral. The cross is erected on a pile of rubble. Via @covdig and @mirrorpix. coventry-digital.smartframe.io/p/61097/405494…

I’m sharing prints from wet plate collodion portraits created with @TilleyEsquire in a small exhibition on Thursday @PrintMF 6-8pm. If your in Coventry come and see us. Thanks to all who had portraits made and shared experiences of #Neurodiversity #stroke @HoECF @PhotoMiners

I just backed The Show Windows: Catalogue on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/charl…

I'm so pleased we could do this. @PhotoMiners @kyneswood @thecatbath @charliellevine

So pleased to spend yesterday evening looking through the @mirrorpix Arthur Cooper archive with @CovSoc and historiccoventryforum.co.uk. We identified places, people, cars and historic Coventry events. See below: Walter Ritchie working hard on Man's Struggle! coventry-digital.smartframe.io/p/57519/48a9db…

Tomorrow is the last day we'll be making @AaronLaw92's fab zine available for delivery in exchange for a small donation to the Friends of Coventry Cathedral's appeal to buy the Hutton cartoon of the West Screen. More here: photomining.org/projects/john-… and buymeacoffee.com/photominers

I just backed Kiss it! A photo book by Abbie Trayler-Smith on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/gblim…

Exciting news…