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MPX5124906: People gather around the Ministry of Information van parked outside the Coventry Hippodrome Theatre in Hales Street to hear announcements and advice sent out via a loud speaker system and a microphone. Lady Herbert's Garden can be seen in the distance. 18th November 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124930: Comedian Norman Wisdom repays a favour by canvassing for Midlands Central Tory candidate Mr. John Ling. Some years ago Mr. Ling, a former diplomat, organised a concert in Chile for the diminutive comic, who is currently appearing at the Coventry Theatre. Joining in the act are Southam barmaids Pauline Haughton(left) and Margaret Burgess, 5th June 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124952: Actress Wendy Craig paid a visit to Warwick to open the Emscote Lawn School Elizabethan Fair. Miss Craig said: "The education of our children is one of the most vital matters in the world today. We must preserve a choice of school in order to cater for every kind of child. We don't want to produce children like cars from an assembly line, lacking individual flair." Miss Craig, star of the TV series, "Not in Front of the Children," arrived from her mother's home in Kenilworth by an "Elizabethan horse-drawn coach" re-constructed by boys at the school. A ducking stool, quintain(jousting), stocks, madrigals, a pig roast, archery, falconry and the school staff and pupils in full Elizabethan costume provided the period flavour, 27th June 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images