King Edward VI School, Five Ways 1883 - 1958

[Vivienne14]

New Street

King Edward's School, New Street 1838 - 1936

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Edgbaston

King Edward VI School Edgbaston 1936

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King Edward High School for Girls Edgbaston Park Road

Hadn't realised this but the building was once King Edward's High School for Girls - Edmund Street. Postcard dated 1904. Viv.

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Camp Hill

King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

His university education was interrupted by war service. After demobilisation in 1946, he completed his M.A. and teacher training. His first teaching post was as classics master at Raynes Park School. In 1955 he was appointed as headmaster at Rastrick Grammar School in Yorkshire, and then in...

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Handsworth
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Handsworth Grammar King Edward Boys' Grammar Grove Lane

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Aston

King Edwards Grammar School Aston 1883

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Didn't know there was once a KE school at Five Ways. Photo c1895. Viv.

 

[ellbrown]

It was where Five Ways Island is now.

Plaque in the middle.



The school is currently located in Bartley Green.

 

[devonjim]

Did it become a GDGS campus in 1958?

 

[ChrisM]

My own father was educated there, roughly between 1912 and 1915, before being promoted, for reasons unknown, to KES which was then located in an even more magnificent building in New Street (prior to its move to Edgbaston in 1936). Amongst my friends are at least two who were educated in the old Five Ways building.

When you look at Viv's image, the subsequent "improvements" to the Five Ways area, including the demolition of the School, are enough to make you weep. I wasn't interested enough to note what was going on at the time, but when it was finished and new, did it all look as ghastly as it did in later years?

Chris

 

[BrumBum]

Did it become a GDGS campus in 1958?

Yes it did. See the George Dixon Grammar School thread.

 

[Vivienne14]

The school at Five Ways. This image gives a good idea of the ornate style of the building. Viv.

 

[Dave M]

1900

 

[Vivienne14]

The boys must have been collecting for the Mafeking Relief Fund. From the Arts Council Study #25 :

 

[Vivienne14]

For info, from British History Online ;

"KING EDWARD'S FIVE WAYS GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS, Hagley Road (1883–1958); Scotland Lane, Bartley Green (1958). Opened in buildings of former Edgbaston Proprietary Sch. which had been enlarged to accom. 300. Nearly half original pupils came from Middle Sch. in New St. Also took all pupils from Bath Row Sch. (see p. 554 and below; Hutton, King Edw.'s Sch. 189, 193). Moved to new premises in Scotland Lane 1958. 350 B c. 1908 (V.C.H. Warws. ii. 355), 550 1952 (Hutton, K.E.'s Sch. 191). N.o.b. 1961: 668."

 

[devonjim]

My own father was educated there, roughly between 1912 and 1915, before being promoted, for reasons unknown, to KES which was then located in an even more magnificent building in New Street (prior to its move to Edgbaston in 1936). Amongst my friends are at least two who were educated in the old Five Ways building.

When you look at Viv's image, the subsequent "improvements" to the Five Ways area, including the demolition of the School, are enough to make you weep. I wasn't interested enough to note what was going on at the time, but when it was finished and new, did it all look as ghastly as it did in later years?

Chris

KES promote "bright" pupils from the Grammar Schools to the high school at Edgbaston. A couple of my class mates were similarly treated.