MPX5126848: One of the smallest primary schools in Coventry, All Saints, in Vecquery Street, is to be replaced at a cost of £72,000.All Saints was founded in 1877and is in need of replacement on account of its age and unsatisfactory condition, but it must be replaced in any case because of road plans. Negotiations are taking place for a site near the Charterhouse, London Road. 4th April 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5126872: Street theatre came to Leamington in the shape of 10 amateur actors from Oxfam. The players are members of the Young Oxfam Round Britain Street Theatre who are spending their summer vacation touring a dozen towns and cities. They present two plays to show Oxfam's role in the Third World, the first depicts the results of drought and the second the effect of international trade on under-developed countries. The travelling group are accommodated at church halls while on tour and Leamington was about the half-way point of their tour. Their leader, John Fewtrell, said the group were set up to entertain and inform but had raised enough through contributions to cover their costs. 22nd August 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5126911: Seasonal goodwill and cheer began for hundreds of old age pensioners in Coventry today when the distribution of 8,500 parcels from the Lord Mayor's Christmas Fund started in the crypt of St. Mary's Hall in Bayley Lane. Each of the pensioners filed through the building to receive one of the parcels which contained 15 grocery items pakced in gay carrier bags. The bag included a Christmas pudding, tea, sugar, biscuits, tins of steak, chicken, sardines, salmon, cream and fruit. The Lord Mayor, Alderman W. Parfitt, was there to give a Christmas greeting to the first few hundred arrivals and to hand them personally an envelope containing a Christmas card and 2s. 6d. "to have a Christmas drink from me." The cost for this gesture was £6,000. The parcels were put together in a 10-hour marathon by 2 dozen volunteers from the Welfare and Town Clerk's departments in their own time. They worked for 2 and a half hours each evening fortified by a buffet tea supplied by the Lord Mayor. 17th December 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images