St. Joseph's Convent (Progressing)

e have a wonderful selection of photographs here from Maureen Donald, whose mother-in-law, Emily Taylor, attended a convent in Coventry as a day student. The connection between them is St. Joseph's Convent, and they date from 1922 to 1925.

Here are the girls at St. Joseph's convent in 1922.

And here, again in 1922, the girls performing the Shakespeare comedy "As you like it".

This priest also probably has connections with St. Joseph's Convent.

The BTH (Coventry) Social & Athletic Club Hockey Team, 1924-25

The connection with St. Joseph's is currently unknown, but as with all of these images, it's of great interest and part of Coventry's fine past.

These two fine portraits are probably connected to the Alfred Green family:

Update: 21st August 2011

Catherine Binns (formerly Harrop) was at St. Joseph's, too, but started just before the war, then was evacuated with the Convent to Stoneleigh Abbey. Later, the older students moved to Offchurch and the younger ones to Crackleigh. Catherine has tried in vain to find anyone from those days, except two that she stayed in touch with. Catherine's two younger sisters were also at Stoneleigh after the Blitz.
If anyone does remember Catherine, please get in touch so I can let her know.

Update: 8th July 2011

Jennifer Noblet (nee Lee) has written in with additional information about some of the children pictured, and has also supplied a wonderful photo, which nicely complements the ones above of St. Joseph's Convent. Jennifer is fairly sure that it is her mother seated in the front row, fourth from the right, in the top school photo on this page. However, if it's not her mother in that photograph then it will be her mother's sister, Angela Martin. Her mother also features in the photograph below, taken around 1924 - seated on the far right of the second row.

It is also probably Jennifer's mother's sister, Sheila, in the photo of the "As you like it" play, standing second from the right on the back row, and the eldest sister, Nora, probably features in the 'gymslip' photo, back row, in the middle.

As always, I'm immensely grateful to Jennifer for this lovely contribution to the website.