Coventry peace trail launched
Quakers in Coventry have written a 'peace trail' to guide visitors around the city
Two Coventry Quakers, Carol Rank and Andrew Rigby, have written a booklet to guide visitors on the Coventry ‘peace trail’ and on 11 November they took twenty visitors on the first peace trail walk.
Coventry Quakers, several members of Coventry lord mayor’s Peace Committee and four visitors from Kiel, Germany were among the group.
Andrew Rigby introduced the walk standing in front of Coventry Cathedral’s Charred Cross. ‘This is a good place to start,’ he said. ‘The Charred Cross is a symbol of a theme of reconciliation and peace… and the theme that runs right through the peace trail. The Charred Cross was made of burnt timbers from the bombed cathedral… seventy-seven years ago.’
The group then moved on to other peace sites at the Coventry old cathedral – the Reconciliation sculpture, the Choir of Survivors sculpture, Coventry’s Peace Pole and the simple stone commemorating non-combatants killed in war – before visiting a further nineteen sites in Coventry.
The peace trail takes about two hours, and the guides are available free from the Herbert Art Gallery near the cathedral.
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