7th August 2024 Adam Hartland

Miss Sweet drives to Coventry after the bombing to check on girls’ welfare. Kingsley accommodates girls from bombed schools. Staff and students sleep upstairs to ‘Fire Watch’. Cellar is used as an air-raid shelter. Houses knit for the Forces, support the Red Cross ‘penny a week’ fund and collect articles for prisoners-of-war parcels. Kingsley supports ‘Friends of Coventry Cathedral’.

The Kingsley School