Osler Street School, Ladywood

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Date:1875 - 1981 (c.)

Description:Osler Street School in Ladywood was opened first as a boys' school on 15 November 1875. The girls' school followed in 1886, and the Junior and Infants' School in 1908. Much later, in 1962, the Follett Osler Secondary School opened. In its heyday the school had places for over a thousand pupils. Closure came in 1972, and after briefly reopening in 1978 as an annexe to the new Ladywood Secondary School the building was demolished early in 1981. Abraham Follett Osler, after whom the school and street were named, was a local industrialist who had a glass factory in Freeth Street.


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1920s
The OSMAG March 1925
The OSMAG March 1925

Front cover of the Osler Street Boys school magazine for March 1925.

1950s
The Osler Street School magazine
The Osler Street School magazine

The cover of 'Osmag', the magazine of Osler Street School, Ladywood, as it was in ...

1960s
Osler Street, Ladywood
Osler Street, Ladywood

A view of the side of Osler Street School, Ladywood, in March 1968, not long before ...

1990s
Osler Street School report
Osler Street School report

A glowing school report for Barbara Cooper of Form 1A in Osler Street Senior Girls' ...

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Creators: Mr Norman Bartlam - Creator

Image courtesy of: Mr Norman Bartlam

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Source: Mr Norman Bartlam ,  Mr Roy Edwards ,  Mr Alex Henderson ,  Ms Val Blake ,  Mr Ray Usher

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