Priory Street

More thanks to Coventry Smorgasbord - I like this kind of image as it reflects both the Coventry I knew with the Pool Meadow Cafe and clock with the old (Triumph buildings etc.) so I can compare the two with how I knew it - Easter Monday 1939. Sunday schools procession leaving Pool Meadow. Between 6 and 7,000 children from more than twenty Sunday schools took part in the 62nd Easter festival and procession of the Coventry and District Sunday School Union. The children and their teachers assembled on Pool Meadow where a short service was held. Mr. Grant Beamish, in a short address, spoke of the good work done by Sunday school teachers locally and went on to refer to conditions in "a chaotic world." The hymns sung were "Welcome, happy morning," "Angel voices ever singing," "All the beauty I behold," and "Land of our birth." The Rev. H. I. James said the prayer, and a collection was taken to assist the union's funds. After the service the children marched in procession through the city, taking the following route: Priory Street, Ford Street, Hales Street, Cross Cheaping, Broadgate, High Street, Cross Cheaping, Broadgate, High Street, Earl Street, Jordan Well, Cox Street, Swanswell Street, Harnall Lane, and Foleshill Road. Foleshill Salvation Army Band led the procession, and other bands taking part were Lockhurst Lane Drum and Fife Band, St. Alban's Salvation Army Band, Foleshill Road Bugle Band, Coventry Salvation Army No.2 Band, and Stoke Salvation Army Band. The Sunday schools represented were Canley, Foleshill Road, Lockhurst Lane, Holbrooks, Jesmond Road, Durbar Avenue, Broad Street, Paradise Salvation Army Nos 2 & 3, Stoney Stanton Road, Heath Road, West Orchard, Radford Congregational, Well Street, Gosford Street, Ford Street, Vine Street, Earlsdon, Radford Baptist, Stoke, Salvation Army No. 1, St. Michael's Baptist, Lime Tree Park, and a newly formed school from Cheylesmore.