Brutalist architecture of the De Vere Hotel in Coventry City centre. Image taken in August 1979. The Fairfax Street Hotel which opened in 1973 as the De Vere Hotel still stands next to Pools Meadow Bus Station. The building has since changed to a Britannia Hotel.


Brutalist architecture of the De Vere Hotel in Coventry City centre. Image taken in August 1979. The Fairfax Street Hotel which opened in 1973 as the De Vere Hotel still stands next to Pools Meadow Bus Station. The building has since changed to a Britannia Hotel.


Size: 7360px × 4907px
Location: Coventry, UK
Photo credit: © Simon Webster / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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