Barton on Coventry

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Today, Laura Barton and the Guardian gang have made it as far as Coventry:

Coventry has a history of reinventing itself. Along with the famous cathedral, the city was heavily bombed during the second world war and was rebuilt in blocks of grey concrete. It established a new reputation based on bicycles, motorcycles, tractors, buses and cars. In the 1950s and 60s it was a boomtown, the fruits of its motor industry funding a new theatre and an art gallery. Now the car companies have all left, save for the design headquarters of Jaguar and the company that makes black cabs, and it is left to the Transport Museum to tell the story of the city's manufacturing glory days.

They've even got a grainy film to prove it.