I AM writing to you as I am doing a study of the Coventry architects, George and Isaac Steane, concentrating on their school buildings, including South Street School and Wheatley Street School.
Regrettably, although Wheatley Street School was the most expensive school in the country when built and had an extraordinary ventilation system, it was demolished in the 1980s. Worse, there appear to be no surviving photographs of this building.
All I have found after searching books on Coventry, the city archives and the central library photo archive are two postcards of the south elevation to Ford Street.
I wonder if an appeal through your paper might turn something up? Many thousands attended Wheatley Street School and it hosted a whole range of events, which must have been photographed. Someone must have something. I would be very grateful.
