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Little Green Lane School Wyndcliffe School Small Heath

Vivienne14

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From the British History online site. Viv.

LITTLE GREEN LANE COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Small Heath.(27) Little Green Lane Bd. Sch. opened 1878 by Birm. Sch. Bd.(22) Accom. 1,313 B, G, I.(1) Fees 1d.–3d.(22) One of the first 3 woodwork centres for Birm. bd. schs. opened here 1892.(23) Altered 1901. Enlarged 1903–4. Bd. of Ed. demanded minor improvements in premises 1912. Altered and reorganized 1929 for SB, JM, I. SB closed 1936. Damaged by enemy action and closed 1941. Part of building used as a Special sch. and remainder reopened 1948 for JI. More classrooms repaired 1950 and sch. divided into 2 depts.(21) Accom. 1961: 15 classrooms, 2 halls.(28)

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Vivienne14 said:
From the British History online site. Viv.

LITTLE GREEN LANE COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Small Heath.(27) Little Green Lane Bd. Sch. opened 1878 by Birm. Sch. Bd.(22) Accom. 1,313 B, G, I.(1) Fees 1d.–3d.(22) One of the first 3 woodwork centres for Birm. bd. schs. opened here 1892.(23) Altered 1901. Enlarged 1903–4. Bd. of Ed. demanded minor improvements in premises 1912. Altered and reorganized 1929 for SB, JM, I. SB closed 1936. Damaged by enemy action and closed 1941. Part of building used as a Special sch. and remainder reopened 1948 for JI. More classrooms repaired 1950 and sch. divided into 2 depts.(21) Accom. 1961: 15 classrooms, 2 halls.(28)

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I was at this school from 1965 to 1972 when it was known as Wyndcliffe. I enjoyed every minute of it, mainly due to a wonderful teacher called Mr Fairbrother.
 
Lovely to hear from a former pupil Lynn. It's not a school I've heard of before. Thanks for posting. Viv.
 
My husband was there between 1956 and 1961. Funnily enough, yesterday we were with some of his friends from that time.
 
Think we need to seperate out the two schools into two threads.

Lady P - is that the Small Heath school you're referring to ?

Mallyb2 - thanks for your comments, don't worry about the confusion as its flagged up that we need to distinguish between the schools. Viv.
 
found a pic of Little Green Lane infants school...I was there about 1951 for about 3 years until we left to live in Alum Rock.....pic attached
 

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found a pic of Little Green Lane infants school...I was there about 1951 for about 3 years until we left to live in Alum Rock.....pic attached
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I've got a photo (somewhere!) just like that, taken about 1966. I loved every minute of my time there in the Infants and Juniors, very happy memories of a wondeful time.
 
I was at Wyndcliffe Infant and then Junior schools from 1961 t0 1968. It was always known as Wyndcliffe in my time rather than Little Green lane School. Lots of happy memories. I have quite a lot of photos and some momentos.
 
We had 4 men working at Wyndcliffe School in the 80's or was it the 90's for the life of me I can't remember what the job was, but if it was anything like other jobs we did at schools in the district then it was pulling down old classroom ,lath and plaster ceilings that were over a 100 years old so they could be replaced with plasterboard, believe me there was no nastier or dirtier a job going.

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pwe56 said:
I was at Wyndcliffe Infant and then Junior schools from 1961 t0 1968. It was always known as Wyndcliffe in my time rather than Little Green lane School. Lots of happy memories. I have quite a lot of photos and some momentos.
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I was there from 1965 until 1972. I haven't any photos. Would you be able to post yours on here?
 
Vivienne14 said:
From the British History online site. Viv.

LITTLE GREEN LANE COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Small Heath.(27) Little Green Lane Bd. Sch. opened 1878 by Birm. Sch. Bd.(22) Accom. 1,313 B, G, I.(1) Fees 1d.–3d.(22) One of the first 3 woodwork centres for Birm. bd. schs. opened here 1892.(23) Altered 1901. Enlarged 1903–4. Bd. of Ed. demanded minor improvements in premises 1912. Altered and reorganized 1929 for SB, JM, I. SB closed 1936. Damaged by enemy action and closed 1941. Part of building used as a Special sch. and remainder reopened 1948 for JI. More classrooms repaired 1950 and sch. divided into 2 depts.(21) Accom. 1961: 15 classrooms, 2 halls.(28)

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Dear Viv, please could you tell me where this photo comes from? Many thanks!
 
Phil said:
We had 4 men working at Wyndcliffe School in the 80's or was it the 90's for the life of me I can't remember what the job was, but if it was anything like other jobs we did at schools in the district then it was pulling down old classroom ,lath and plaster ceilings that were over a 100 years old so they could be replaced with plasterboard, believe me there was no nastier or dirtier a job going.

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Hi Phil, I might have already asked (sorry, am knee deep in photo requests!), but please could you tell me where this photo comes from originally? Many thanks!
 
H. Grainger Clemson said:
Dear Viv, please could you tell me where this photo comes from? Many thanks!
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The photo I posted was for sale on eBay but it was some time ago.

You asked Phil a question too. I’m afraid Phil has passed away so, unless another member recognises the photo, we won’t be able to tell you the original source.

Viv.
 
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