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Voices of Kingstanding (8)
- Clement Watts recalls Warren’s Farm Junior School… 2012, Clement Watts recalls Warren’s Farm Junior School.
- Clement Watts recalls Dulwich Road School (part 2)…w about his time at Dulwich Road Secondary Modern School.
- Clement Watts recalls Dulwich Road School (part 1)…recalls his time at Dulwich Road Secondary Modern School, Kingstanding, where he was a pupil from 1950 to 1954.
- The cane for looking into the girls’ school…tchell describes getting the cane at Dulwich Road School, about 1955, for looking into the girls’ school. VoK shows the clip beside David’s photograph of Mr Porter’s math…
- Shirley Hammond recalls Kingsland School in the 1930s…in August 2012, Shirley Hammond recalls Kingsland School, Kingstanding, in the 1930s. The clip is shown under ‘Memories of Shirley Hammond’ on the Kingsland Primary Schoo…
- The metalwork rooms at Dulwich Road…ell describes the metalwork rooms at Dulwich Road School during the 1950s.
- The first pre-nursing course at Dulwich Road…y name was Pauline Timson, I went to Dulwich road school, from 1947-1952. And following that (post 15yrs) I remained at school for two years as part of the very first pre…
- The prefabs on Conker Island…ed at the one end, then a few shops, the Catholic school and opposite the metal working classes from Dulwich Road School.
Heritage archive (8)
- King Edward’s School Chapel, Edgbaston…y 2012 — The upper corridor of Barry’s New Street school, rebuilt at Edgbaston in 1938–40 as King Edward’s School Chapel. Photo: Brianboru100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- The Free Grammar School, New StreetPublished 1894 — Charles Barry’s King Edward’s School on New Street, from a photograph by Whitlock, published by Dent in 1894. The girls’ school of 1896 is beyond.
- Junior School and Carillon, Bournville14 January 2007 — Bournville Junior School (1902–05) and its carillon tower.
- A letter from Kingsland Road Junior Girls’ School, 1938…h 1938 — Letter from Kingsland Road Junior Girls’ School, 24 March 1938. Courtesy of Lee Lewis. Lee Lewis shared this letter with Voices of Kingstanding in 2017. Written …
- “History is an Entertainment to Them”: Sundridge Road School pageant, 19511951 — Sundridge Road School’s celebration of the Festival of Britain. Diane Stringer donated this cutting to Voices of Kingstanding. The printed caption says pupils of S…
- Peckham Road Infant School playground, 19381938 — Peckham Road Infant School, 1938. A newspaper cutting shown on Voices of Kingstanding’s Peckham Road (King’s Rise) School 1930s page. Its caption says the picture …
- King Edward VI’s School, Birmingham: view of the front to New Street1867 — Barry’s New Street front as engraved in 1867. The central lantern shown here was never built.
- Odeon, New Street…mount in 1937, stands on the rear part of the old school site. Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birmingham history: places (8)
- King Edward’s School, New StreetCharles Barry’s Gothic school on New Street, built 1833–38, with interior details by the young A. W. N. Pugin. It was the first Gothic Revival building in central Birming…
- The Old Crown, Deritend…eople often say it was built as the guildhall and school of the Deritend guild. That is tradition: the guild did pay a schoolmaster priest, but no document ties him to th…
- St John’s Chapel, Deritend…sixteenth century paid two priests, one of them a schoolmaster. Centuries later the inhabitants were still electing their own minister. At the election of 15 June 1870 th…
- St Thomas’s Church, Bath Row…ist Anuradha Patel, made with pupils of Lea Mason School. The west front still stands at the end of it, its clock stage and plain octagon rising over Bath Row. It is one …
- Hen and Chickens Hotel, New Street…ny in 1832. It closed in 1894 for the Girls’ High School. A four-storey hotel with a long first-floor iron balcony across its front, on the south side of New Street betwe…
- Old Meeting House, Old Meeting Street…”. The poet John Freeth was buried in its yard. A school and lecture room opened next door in 1855, and in 1870 the burial ground was enlarged with land bought from the L…
- Josiah Mason’s Orphanage, Erdington…hrough it. Thirty-two had died. The children were schooled on site, and the girls were taught sewing, cooking, washing and other household work. When Mason died in 1881 h…
- Summer Lane and the old Newtown…ween 6,500 and 15,000 people, with its own shops, schools, churches and open space. Summer Lane’s became Newtown. Bill Dargue calls it “the largest of them all”. Almost t…
Landmarks & places (8)
- Kingsvale SchoolKingstanding’s original village school, opened on Holly Lane in 1914 — before any of the council estate was built. Kingsvale School opened in 1914 as the original village…
- The old school on Shady LaneThe school house beside All Saints on Shady Lane was recorded by 1840, ran as the Calthorpes’ Oscott Church School until 1900, and was photographed in 1938 before demolit…
- King’s Rise SchoolKing’s Rise secondary school on Peckham Road, 1945–1989: maroon blazers, Pop Mason, a Villa goalkeeper, 1976 photographs, and houses where it stood. In the summer of 1976…
- Kingstanding Circle… found it “well served with shops, public-houses, schools, and cinemas”. In the 1950s Rough Road Post Office stood on the Circle, with a branch of Boots next door. Photog…
- Birmingham Settlement, Kingstanding Road…hestra and a drama group. For children there were schoolboys’ and schoolgirls’ clubs, Scouts, Cubs, Guides and Brownies, and a youth club. Its young people could hold the…
- Maryvale, Old Oscott…lege and the Sacred Heart In 1794 Oscott became a school and a seminary, training priests for the Midlands. Bishop John Milner named it St Mary’s College in 1808 and enla…
- All Saints Church, Shady Lane…r than the council estate — beside an old village school house first recorded in 1840. All Saints Church on Shady Lane is older than the council estate. It was built soon…
- Icknield Street… “no definitive evidence”. A dig at Prince Albert School in Perry Barr set out to investigate the Roman road and found a Bronze Age pit alignment instead. To see the real…
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Birmingham history: people (8)
- George Kynoch…garet. The family was poor. He went to the parish school and then worked as a clerk, first in an insurance office in Glasgow and then at a bank in Worcester. From Worcest…
- Sir James Timmins Chance…ment. In 1900 he gave £50,000 to found the Chance School of Engineering at the new University of Birmingham. That year he was made a baronet. He died at Hove on 6 January…
- Robert Lucas Chance…for a seventh. The site was enlarged in 1844, and schools were built on part of the new land, mainly for the children of the firm’s workers. A seven-storey warehouse went…
- George Frederick Muntz…e was taught at home, spent a year at Dr Currie’s school at Small Heath, and went into business at thirteen. He spoke French and German. When his father died in 1811 he t…
- Samuel Garbett…cumstances. By most accounts he had little formal schooling. He began as a brass worker and then became an agent for a London merchant, buying Birmingham wares on commiss…
- John Roebuck… wanted learning instead. After Sheffield grammar school and Philip Doddridge’s academy at Northampton he went to Edinburgh to study medicine. There the chemistry teachin…
- Sir Josiah Mason…e second son of a carpet weaver. He had almost no schooling. At eight he was selling cakes in the street, then fruit and vegetables from a donkey. He taught himself shoem…
- Thomas Attwood…Isaac Spooner. Thomas was educated at the grammar schools of Halesowen and Wolverhampton and, at about seventeen, went into his father’s bank in New Street, Birmingham. I…
Birmingham history: firms and societies (1)
