This week’s pictures from the past
Friday 13th February 2009, 11:49AM GMT.
“Journey into Adventure” it says on the wall of this classroom at The Wyre Farm School Camp, also known as the City of Coventry Boarding School, near Cleobury Mortimer.
This school opened in 1940 for children evacuated from the Coventry blitz. It closed in 1982.
Thesde days it is the Pioneer activity centre for young people and Pioneer conference centre, and this undated picture – 1950s maybe? – is among Pioneer’s archives.
On the left of the map it says: “The idea, To Get As Far Away As Possible in Three Hours”, so it seems that there was about to be some form of adventure exercise.
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This couldn’t possibley be City of Coventry School. The original pool was positioned in a way that the building just doesn’t match. I think it may have been a picture from one of the other three identical buildings built at the same time.
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Hi I was at Wyre Farm Camp School from May 1952 to April 1957. It was a all boys school it was only in the summer holidays that girls were their.Their were about 130 boys at any one time we were in four dormitory’s named Earlsdon,Gosford,Radford and Stoke all parts of Coventry.We need a few schools like that today we were a lot fitter and healthier as we spent a lot of time out side doing sports. I went on a weeks youth hosteling with the rest of my class.One class were given X amount money and had to get as far away from school as possible one couple got out into the north sea on a trawler but in those days it was a lot safer.I feel a better person for being at that school in more ways than one yours Dave Desolla
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