Commemoration of the Centenary of George Singer's death.
Singerfolk from both the Association of Singer Car Owners and the Singer Owners’ Club, met in Coventry on 4 September 2009 to continue their commemoration of the life of George Singer, whose death on 4 Jan 1909 they had remembered on 4 Jan 2009 with a visit to his grave in the London Road cemetery, attending the morning service at St Thomas’ Parish
This time we started with a visit to the original Singer works in Canterbury Street, the main facade and entrance hall of which have been preserved and incorporated into ‘Singer Hall’ - a hall of residence for students at University of Coventry.
From Canterbury Street the Singers drove in convoy to the London Road Cemetery, where John Taylor had arranged for the cars to drive in and park by George’s grave-side.
John and Richard Hoare, our ‘Guardians of the Grave’, had placed on the grave bouquets of asparagus and maidenhair fern with white chrysanthemums, with which the grave had been lined for the funeral on 7th January 1909, and there
were cards to ‘George’ from ASCO and the SOC.
Barry’s partner Anne had made beautiful posies of red carnations, one for each of those present, and we laid these on the grave in a brief ceremony as a token of our respect, and in memory of ‘George Singer, the Man’.
Following this, we spent a short while looking around this beautiful, historic place.
On the magnificent stair-case - in the steps of George Singer