Appeal for city engineer tales.THE city engineer who was given the job of creating Coventry's inner ring road is appealing for help in a research project. Brian Rednap is writing a history of his old department, from its Victorian beginnings. He retired after working in the city for 34 years and now wants to put on record the story of Coventry's transition from turnpikes to its modern circulatory circulatory /cir·cu·la·to·ry/ (ser´ku-lah-tor?e) 1. pertaining to circulation, particularly that of the blood. 2. containing blood. cir·cu·la·to·ry n. 1. road, dustcarts to incineration incineration the act of burning to ashes. , even the saga of the Mini chase through a city sewer for the Michael Caine film, The Italian Job. Anyone able to help with anecdotes or stories handed down through former employees' families, should contact him. He said: "It will add immensely to the recorded history Recorded history can be defined as history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language, whereas history is a more general term referring simply to information about the past.[1] It starts in the 4th millennium BC, with the invention of writing. of Coventry and recover information that would otherwise be lost." Write to Mr Rednap at 18 Arlington Court Arlington Court is an English country house designed in a severe neoclassical style circa 1820, situated in Arlington, near Barnstaple, north Devon, England. The house was built by Colonel John Chichester, and designed by a local architect Thomas Lee. , Arlington Avenue, Leamington CV32 5HR. |
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