{"id":195,"date":"2012-01-21T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyrefarmed.artsrainbow.com\/2012\/01\/21\/city-of-coventry-school-1962-brochure\/"},"modified":"2012-01-21T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T00:09:00","slug":"city-of-coventry-school-1962-brochure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/2012\/01\/21\/city-of-coventry-school-1962-brochure\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Coventry School 1962 Brochure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alison Rowland <\/b>kindly sent me a copy of the 1962 brochure that I remember receiving when I started the school in 1962 but which I no longer have. It’s an interesting read and has some good photos in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alison also contributed some other photos of  interest –<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mr & Mrs Chinn and Bob & Barbara Rowland<\/span><\/div>\n
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Miss Richards (Matron) & Barbara Rowland<\/span><\/div>\n
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” I find the whole social history aspect fascinating, particularly the development of a local authority version of a public school education. I think it was part of the whole post-war ‘leveling’ process, and something my father (Bob Rowland) was very interested in. He was from a very modest background, but had (I think) won a scholarship to Solihull School, and went on from there to build a successful academic career. He was passionate about learning (and couldn’t pass a bookshop, whether new or second-hand, without buying something), and wanted a good education to be available to all, although I’m not sure, from some of his personal writing, that he was convinced that boarding was really the best option.”<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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Alison Rowland kindly sent me a copy of the 1962 brochure that I remember receiving when I started the school in 1962 but which I no longer have. It’s an interesting read and has some good photos in it. Alison also contributed some other … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}