Handsworth Wood Boys' School
Handsworth Wood Boys' School opened in 1958 at the same time as the adjoining Handsworth Wood Girls' School, the entrance to both schools being situated on Church Lane. In 1998 the Boys' School was closed ...
Headteacher Denis Lyons records his thoughts on the opening of Lee Bank Primary School
Mar 14th. (opening ceremony to) be performed by HRH Princess Alexandra.
Mar 14th. Meeting at school of high education, police and other officials rergarding arrangements for the ceremony.
Mar 15. School ...
Heath Mount School
Heath Mount School, built across Knutsford Street, replaced Belgrave School in Mary Street and opened in November 1970. The head was Godfrey Mundy.
Heath Mount School netball team
The prize winning Heath Mount School netball team.
Herbert Green returns to St Thomas' School
Some ten years after the closure was announced St Thomas' Primary School finally closed its doors for the last time on 20th July. The school was replaced in effect by two new schools - Lea Mason Secondary ...
House at Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth
Old house on the site of new Board School, Rookery Road, Handsworth. A photograph taken in 1898, the year Handsworth School Board opened the new school.
HRH Princess Alexandra at Lee Bank Primary School
Headteacher Denis Lyons on the day of the visit by the princess:
"Punctually at 1135 a car drove in which contained the princess and Ald. Harold Tyler, the Lord Mayor. Various people concerned with the ...
Icknield Street School, Ladywood
Inside Icknield Street School, Ladywood. The school opened as Icknield Street Board School in 1883 and became a Secondary Modern school in 1945.
Introduction to the class
A new pupil is introduced to their class mates at St Thomas's School. Sadly the date, class and teacher are not noted on the back so any more information would be most welcome. The school was located ...
Jakeman Nursery
Jakeman Nursery School Jakeman Road
January 1967 at Lee Bank Primary School
The first two pages from the school diary for 1967. The entries read:
4 Jan: The new Junior School opened with about 5 classes, about 175 children. Although each block is now being used separately ...
Jill Knight MP at St Thomas Junior and Infant School
The then MP for Edgbaston, Jill Knight, opening a play scheme for local children at St Thomas Junior and Infant School on Great Colmore Street. This was only the second one of it's kind to be opened in ...
Joseph Chamberlain 6th Form College
After seven years as part of Highgate School the old Mount Pleasant became Joseph Chamberlain 6th form college in 1983. The reduction in pupils meant that other buildings including Moseley Road Art School ...
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
The college opened in 1983, housed in the buildings formerly used by Mount Pleasant School.
King Edward VI Grammar School for Girls Handsworth
After the closure of the Gild of the Holy Cross, and the confiscation of its property at the time of the Reformation in 1547, a petition from some Birmingham men in 1548 requested that part of the endowment ...
King Edward VI Grammar School for Girls Handsworth
After the closure of the Gild of the Holy Cross, and the confiscation of its property at the time of the Reformation in 1547, a petition from some Birmingham men in 1548 requested that part of the endowment ...
King Edward VI Grammar School for Girls Handsworth
The magnificent assembly hall of King Edward VI Grammar School for Girls in Rosehill Road. On the platform at one end of the hall stands a large impressive wooden armchair of Tudor style, resembling ...
King Edward VI Grammar School for Girls Handsworth
A photograph taken from the Villa Road end of Rosehill Road, this is King Edward VI Grammar School for Girls Handsworth. The school was opened in 1911 to accommodate pupils moving from Summer Hill and ...