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Jun 14, 2019 · The Frederick’s Road School, sometimes Frederick Road, was founded in 1893. It was on what is now known as Mandela Road, north of Custom House, E.16. It seems to have closed between 1930 and 1939, from mentions in the NID Handbook, most probably 1938. It came under the West Ham education committee.
Feb 5, 2009 · KING EDWARD'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS, ASTON, Frederick Road, Aston. Opened 1883 in building between Albert and Frederick Rds. housing twin B and G schs. Pupils came from Lower Middle Schs. in Edward St. and Gem St. (see p. 554). When G sch. moved to Handsworth 1911 (see below) B occupied whole sch.
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West Ham's first parish school wasopened in 1723. During the following years publicelementary education was provided mainly by thechurches until 1871, when a school board, one of theearliest in the country, was formed for the parish.The board's first report gave details of existingschools and assessed the deficiency of school places. (fn. 1) There ...
West Ham(All Saints) Church primary school, Portway, (fn. 10) wasfounded in 1723 as a parish charity school, supported by subscriptions, collections in the church,and £4 a year given under the will of Mary Battailhey, proved 1702, for teaching the poor children ofStratford and Plaistow to read. (fn. 11) The school appearsto have been held at first ...
North Street board school, Plaistow, was opened in1872. The board leased from the Quakers theirlarger meeting-house, a classroom, and a dwelling-house. (fn. 161) By 1873 attendance was 200. In 1878–9 theboard bought the whole premises freehold, enlargedthem to accommodate 436, and established theschool as permanent. (fn. 162)Further extensions were...
Faraday secondary school, Canning Town.Holborn Road council school, planned by theschool board, was opened in 1904 for 1,600. Thebuilding was of the standard three-storey type, buthipped roofs and dormer-windows were substitutedfor the usual gables. It was reorganized in 1933 forsenior boys, senior girls, and infants, and in 1945 asa mixed secondar...
Sarah Bonnell grammar school for girls, St. George'sRoad, Upton. The earlier history of this school,founded in the 18th century, has been describedabove. (fn. 167)In 1876 it was reopened as West Ham highschool for girls in new buildings in West Ham Lane.That site was sold to West Ham hospital in 1905,and a new school was built in the Grove. In 1922...
The following were built by the borough council.Hallsville school, Radland Road, Tidal Basin, wasopened in 1948 on the site of the former SouthHallsville elementary schools. Regent school, PrinceRegent Lane, Custom House (1949), was built on thesiteof the former Regent Lane elementary school.Earlham school, Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, andPortway sc...
The Education Act, 1944, made it possible to convertthe junior departments of the technical college intoseparate technical schools. The girls trade schoolwas rebuilt (1949) as the West Ham technical schoolfor girls on the Water Lane (Deanery Road) site.This was renamed Deanery grammar school in1959, and in 1961 amalgamated with Stratford Greengirls...
Fyfield truant school,for boys, at Fyfield, near Chipping Ongar, wasopened by the school board in 1885, and became atruant and industrial school in 1907. In 1925 it wasconverted into an open air school for delicatechildren. (fn. 181)It was closed in 1956. In 1893 the school board opened two temporarycentres for deaf and dumb children, one in theWor...
Technical classes wereheld for many years at the Great Eastern Railwaymechanics' institution (founded in 1851) and at theCarpenters' Company institute (founded in 1886). (fn. 182) In 1890 the county borough council set up a technical instruction committee, and soon after beganto give financial aid to university extension scienceclasses held at Stra...
In 1627 Edward Lawford waslicensed to teach a grammar school at West Ham. (fn. 188) Thomas Pakeman, minister of Stratford Presbyterianmeeting (1687–91), provided a school for poorchildren and paid the teacher's salary. (fn. 189) WilliamDodd, curate and lecturer of West Ham (1752–66),conducted a private school for boys at Plaistow. (fn. 190) About 1...
Feb 5, 2009 · The name of the school was changed in 1954. It closed and the buildings were demolished in 1963. The school was replaced by Vauxhall Gardens Primary School which opened in September 1963 [see S206] Fox Street Board School opened in 1877 replacing Fox Street Temporary Board School.
Apr 4, 2019 · Between 1862 and 1897, children were subjected to the ‘payment by results’ system. This was brought in to raise standards and schools could lose part of their grants if insufficient children attained the expected grades in the three Rs. They also needed to show a satisfactory level of attendance.
This is a list of the Birmingham board schools, built between the Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75) which established board schools, and the Education Act 1902, which replaced school boards with local education authorities.
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The school building stood on the west side of St Margarets Avenue, then called Black Pit Lane, roughly opposite Over Pool Road. It then comprised a newly built schoolroom for 65 children plus a teacher's house. The school was transferred to the Aston School Board as Ward End Board School in 1879 and was enlarged ten years later.
