Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street, Coventry, West Midlands

A group of boy scouts looking north through the window arch of the ruined Cathedral at the west wall of the new Coventry Cathedral under construction. The old cathedral was bombed during an air raid on 14 November 1940. After the architect Sir Basil Spence won a competition to design a new cathedral work began on it in 1955. The photograph comes from the John Laing Company Archive.

Location

West Midlands Coventry

Period

1950s (1950 - 1959)

Tags

cathedral wwii bomb construction work people children laing