What is recorded here

This grey commemorative plaque records: Peeping Tom. In the Godiva legend Peeping Tom was a tailor who disobeyed Lady Godiva's order to the citizens to stay behind closed shutters while she made her famous ride naked through Coventry. He looked out and was stricken with blindness. Effigies of him were displayed in the upper windows of several buildings in the City Centre before 1940. This figure was then on the Railway Inn at the end of Hertford Street.

Peeping Tom is a figure from the legend of Lady Godiva, known for disobeying her order to remain indoors during her naked ride through Coventry, traditionally punished with blindness; his effigies have been a local feature in Coventry's architecture.

A plaque record does not grant entry to a building or private land. View it from a public place unless permission is clearly given.