Coventry Then & Now

Coventry Then & Now

Author: David McGrory

Publisher: Pitkin

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780752459943

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The historic city of Coventry has a rich heritage, which is uniquely reflected in this fascinating new compilation. Contrasting a selection of eighty archive images alongside full-colour modern photographs, this unique book captures how the city used to be and how it looks today. Accompanied by informative captions, each page captures life in the city as it once was — and is now. Featuring streets and buildings, shops and businesses, and people at work, all aspects of life in the city are covered, providing a fascinating insight into the changing face of the city. As well as delighting the many tourists who visit the city, Coventry Then & Now will provide present occupants with a glimpse of how the city used to be, in addition to awakening nostalgic memories for those who used to live or work here.


A History of Coventry, Orleans County, Vermont (Classic Reprint)

A History of Coventry, Orleans County, Vermont (Classic Reprint)

Author: Pliny Holton White

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780666550460

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Excerpt from A History of Coventry, Orleans County, Vermont Allen made few, if any, sales of his Coventry lands till 179 8. In March of that year he was in London, where he met Stephen Bayard of Philadelphia, and sold him the two thousand acres comprised in Coventry Gore for the round sum of sixteen hundred pounds sterling, There is something ludicrous in the minute particularity of English forms of conveyancing as exhibited in the deed, six pages long, by which Allen transferred these two thousand acres of woods and mountains, together with all and singular houses, outhouses, edifices, buildings, paths, passages, commons, fishing places, hedges, ditches, gates, stiles, fences, ways, waters, water courses, lights, liberties, easements, privileges, profits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.