The convoy then proceeded to Brownshill Green, where we met Tony Doughty, who has researched George Singer’s involvement in building of the Mission Chapel, for which he had laid one of the foundation stones, and in the Vicar Lane/Warwick Road Church in
Coventry, where George worshipped, becoming a Deacon. On the old communion table from Warwick Road, which George may well have used, Tony had laid out original documents, including a record of fundraising for the £200 needed to build the Mission chapel, where George recorded his subscription of £2. 2s. 0d.
This generosity was typical of George, and it is significant that the Mission was to be a Sunday school for the increasing number of children in the area, which was not far from Coundon Court. The Mission Minute Book also records a School Summer Treat outing to Coundon Court in 1889, when 70 children were served tea at the cottage and took part in all sorts of games, after which they were each given a bun by Mrs and the Misses Singer as they passed through the gates. George’s interest in the chapel continued, and it is also recorded that in 1898 he offered £25 towards the building of the proposed new vestry.
met at Warwick Road Church hall for a celebratory meal with our guests, Deputy Lord Mayor of Coventry Councillor Brian Kelsey and his wife Brenda, who had arrived in John Taylor’s 1925 Singer 10/26, guest speakers Lionel Bird and Richard Hoare, and George Singer’s great, great grand-daughter, Annabel Levaux.
In the evening we were to get even closer to George Singer, when we
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