Wyre Farm Camp School

Wyre Farm was also used as a holiday camp for Coventry children after WWII, as well as during the war, as I recall one my sisters going for a holiday there with her class. Does anyone else recall going there. Wyre Farm Camp School During the War Clee Hill

Wyre Farm (Cleobury Mortimer) was the City of Coventry Boarding School which has been mentioned previously in another thread under the main topics. I went there during the school summer holidays for a week in the early 1960s when the dormitories were open to non-boarders. I went with a party from Broadway Junior School, Earlsdon.

Thank you Wearethemods. I must have missed that thread. Yes it was a boys' boarding school but in the holidays when the boarders went home the schools used it for a holiday for all the kids. At Barkers Butts School anyway.

Actually I wish my mum had sent me there, I bet it was good fun. Always imagined it was some sort of Borstal type place the way my mum said it.

It was more adventurous looking at their photos on the net than I thought. The kids even grew their own food.

I went there for a weeks holiday in 1950. I remember sweets were still on ration because one lad gave his coupons for a dead rabbit and it went mouldy. Was very basic and the canteen smelt of cabbage. Remember going up breakneck hill in the forest. It was the first time I had been away from home on my own, no holidays those days, could not afford. Had to be ten or over to go. We used to sing a little ditty about bread and jam we never see nor no sugar in our tea. Ah those were the days.