This week’s pictures from the past
Friday 13th March 2009, 8:28AM GMT.
It looks like a holiday camp doesn’t it? And, given the present use of this site, you wouldn’t be far from the target area if you thought that.
This is the Wyre Farm School Camp, also know as the City of Coventry Boarding School, near Cleobury Mortimer.
The school opened in 1940 for children evacuated from the Coventry blitz. It closed in 1982, according to an old newspaper cutting, and these days it is the Pioneer activity centre and Pioneer conference centre “providing the best outdoor education, holidays and training in the UK, for today’s most important people – youth”, according to its brochure.
This picture is among Pioneer’s archives and is undated. The 1950s maybe?
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