Welcome to Coventry Rebuilt
This site is dedicated to the history of Coventry. The plan is to rebuild Coventry in a highly detailed computer model, with links back to potted histories of each building. The geographical limit of the project is confined to the city centre (City Walls/Ring Road). The project is a hobby run by me, Peter James Knight. Here’s a quick guide to the site:
- Home Page: latest posts and news of Coventry Rebuilt
- Time Machine: A 3D walkthrough of the city in development
- Histories: A potted history of each building, with searches via streets and building type
- Films & Photos: Films of Coventry Rebuilt, model images, photos/postcards of Coventry, Forgotten Faces – old portraits of people that lived in Coventry. History of the Lady Godivas
- About Coventry Rebuilt (CBR): How the project started
- Resources: Links to various useful historical online resources
- Contact: If you would like to contact me
If you have any suggestions on how the site can be improved, or a history that could be told, please feel free to contact me. If you would like to use any of the images or videos please see the usage policy – if in doubt, send me a message.
As for updates, this site will be continously updated and added to. I’m also on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. I plan on using TikTok as a video blog, with hidden histories I discover as the project develops. In the near future, I will be setting up a Patreon Page for a blog on how the model is developing.
There is a lot of AI slop out there, and I don’t want to contribute to the slop pond. However, texturing the model is very complicated and time-consuming. That is partly why the model hasn’t been textured pre 2020. However, AI is a very powerful tool if used correctly. The images below are of poor-quality photographs from the newspapers of the Rex Cinema. I have used AI to enhance them. Also, I have rendered the model of Owen Owen and Boots using AI. It would take a long time to achieve these results if done by hand. I won’t shy away from using AI, and will try and guide the work to ensure accuracy as best I can.
Hope you enjoy the site!
