Coventry Graphic Newspaper

It has been noted that the B.N. archive has finally got around to printing 'The Coventry Graphic'! So my pleas to them have finally paid off!!! The quality still leaves a great deal to be desired. A trip to Boston Spa is well worth the trip for a quality photo however. Although many of the photos are tagged 'Coventry Graphic Photo' it may be of interest to forum members [though not the British Newspaper people] that most of the athletic photos were actually taken by Coventry long time resident, Charles Winterbourne (see Graphic Dec 15th 1913 or The Mystery Photos on this Forum). Winterbourne came from Lewes in Sussex where he was a cross country runner of some note - County Standard - with the local Harrier club. He moved to Birmingham to further his photographic career, and worked for a photographer there for a time. He joined Birchfield Harriers and won Midland and National team medals / honours with them. His next move was to work for a Kenilworth photographer before purchasing [renting?] a Coventry shop. He took plenty of Godiva Photographs having joined the club, including the huge Bettmann one in our Mystery Photo section which incidentally hung in Bettmann's office and has a note on the reverse "I have a list of all the names" written in pencil by Club timekeeper and sometime treasurer for one of the club sections, Fred Allcoat, who tragically died in a car / coach smash near Berkswell while measuring the 26 mile course for the 1979 National Marathon Championships which was a part of Godiva's Centenary celebrations. Coventry's 1978 Olympic marathon runner, Bill Adcocks, was badly injured. The large Godiva club photo led Siegfried Bettmann to offer Winterbourne photographic work for the Triumph car factory, and other Bettmann activities while he was Mayor.

I should have added that Winterbourne lived in Jesson Street when he moved to Coventry, I have no idea whether it was a house or a shop, but I believe the street was bombed. My wife's grandparents lived in the street and had serious problems trying to rescue what they could from the ruins.