Still time to enjoy a taste of history in the city centre

THESE are some of the pictures taken of history stood still in the former Coventry Evening Telegraph offices.

Time has paused in the former Telegraph’s offices on Corporation Street.

The newspaper’s old building has been opened to the public - but you need to act quick if you want to take a look inside before it closes for good.

Fortunately, unlike the pictures say, trespassers won’t be prosecuted.

These are the images taken by Tom Clarke, a visual historian who spends his spare time visiting old abandoned buildings.

Papers have been left just as they were on the last day in the old building and the printer room has also been left as it was.

Tom said it was one of his most favourite places to visit in recent times.

He said: “Usually it’s rare to see inside most buildings of interest so it was really fortunate to be able to explore the interior, more so that it is such a time capsule.

“That was an interesting day. “It is a beautiful building. “It will work well as a hotel, especially if they can leave the reception how it is now.

“This building deserves the coverage it gets, while it is still open.

“I have been to old churches and even the former MEN building wasn’t quite open like the Coventry Telegraph building is.” The Coventry Evening Telegraph building will be open until the end of July when the hotel transformation starts.

Some of the rooms have been left empty where the desks, chairs, computers and piles of newspapers used to be.

However, some of them are untouched. A 1950s vintage electricity substation has been well preserved, while the printing press is still in full view to see where thousands of newspapers were printed in this very city. From May until December 2017, around 10,000 visitors had stepped foot into the historic building.

You can be one of many more until the end of July.

It is open for self-guided tours every day from noon to 6pm, with lots of memorabilia from the half a century that it was home to the Telegraph.

Admission is free with a suggested donation of £3 for the tour, with free parking in the rear service yard on Chapel Street.