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Moseley Road (High) School in the 1920's

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Raphael

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Hi everyone
I am looking for information on the Moseley Road School in the 1920's.
I have just learnt the my mother was a prefect there, she was born in Kings Norton in 1907 and attended St Annes at the top of Bradford Street then went to the high school . I would imagine that she was there from 1918 until 1922 when she received her leaving certificate. I have a copy.
Could anyone advise me of the address of the school and if it is operating Please
I now live in Australia
Thank you
Raphael Sinicola
 
Raphael said:
Hi everyone
I am looking for information on the Moseley Road School in the 1920's.
I have just learnt the my mother was a prefect there, she was born in Kings Norton in 1907 and attended St Annes at the top of Bradford Street then went to the high school . I would imagine that she was there from 1918 until 1922 when she received her leaving certificate. I have a copy.
Could anyone advise me of the address of the school and if it is operating Please
I now live in Australia
Thank you
Raphael Sinicola
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Raphael, could this be Moseley School of Art?
 
I think it has to be ;

None of the other "Moseley" schools seem to be on Moseley Road. They were Moseley Boys' County Grammar (so no girls), Moseley C of E Primary (so not a high school), Moseley County Modern (in College Road so not on or near Moseley Road), Moseley Road Country Primary School (so Moselely Road but a primary school) - that rules them out and leaves
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There is a thread for that here

Moseley school of art

MOSELEY SCHOOL of ART-opposite the beautiful Moseley Rd. baths.
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there was another school in moseley road, though do nor know it's name. in directories it is just marked as council school. Below is map c1916. It was still there in 1951

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Mike - I think that is the one as the bit I posted says Moseley Road and Upper Highgate Street.
 
Raphael said:
Hi everyone
I am looking for information on the Moseley Road School in the 1920's.
I have just learnt the my mother was a prefect there, she was born in Kings Norton in 1907 and attended St Annes at the top of Bradford Street then went to the high school . I would imagine that she was there from 1918 until 1922 when she received her leaving certificate. I have a copy.
Could anyone advise me of the address of the school and if it is operating Please
I now live in Australia
Thank you
Raphael Sinicola
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Just a small point of interest. "Kings Norton" registration district covered quite a large area of Birmingham including Balsall Heath. I'm guessing looking at the schools you mention that your mother may well have been born there.
 
Thank you everyone for your input, would it help if I attached a copy of her leaving certificate
Raphael
 
Janice
Copy Attached Are you able to confirm where the head teacher actually taught??
Regards
Raphael
 

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At the moment unfortunately not, but if anyone has access to a 1921 Kelly's then we might be able to fnd out. I only use Ancestry and the directories on there jump from 1915 to 1940 so are no help.
 
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Kellys does not seem to say anything, though in the list it seems Upper Highgate St school is listed as an elementary school,.. Is the name on the certificate E.A.Bennett. I ask bec ause I have a list of teachers in Birmingham schools born1856-94, which lists
an E.A Bennett, and gives her registration number. (06/00475). When library reopens properly possibly they will have some information about that

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I don't think it is the School of Art as there are head teachers listed for that unless Moseley Road had its own head. Also a suggestion the girls dept did not open until 1921.
 
mikejee said:
Kellys does not seem to say anything, though in the list it seems Upper Highgate St school is listed as an elementary school,.. Is the name on the certificate E.A.Bennett. I ask bec ause I have a list of teachers in Birmingham schools born1856-94, which lists
an E.A Bennett, and gives her registration number. (06/00475). When library reopens properly possibly they will have some information about that

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Yes the head teacher is listed as E A Bennett
Raphael
 
pjmburns said:
Mike - I think that is the one as the bit I posted says Moseley Road and Upper Highgate Street.
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Hello there! I, too, have been very interested in the school in Highgate and I have just found your post and enquiry. In the mid 1950s we lived in a rented house on Moseley Road - at 229, directly opposite Athelstan House - and I have a clear memory of the playground that extended behind the school up to the road itself. On one occasion I clambered over the wall into the yard and found myself marooned since the railings were high and there wasn’t a gate. Eventually my father and big brother rescued me somehow. Now, of course, the houses are gone and all the community in the streets around have also vanished. I was, in the words of the time, a child in need of care and protection, I suppose, and often truanted from Tindal Street School. We played on the bomb sites and were often out of control! I remember the fire engines and their clanging bells, and the milk carts still pulled by ponies. And penny lollies from George’s shop or possibly a newsagent. And the smell of Hawley’s bakery. I still get emotional remembering going with my mother to get coke or coal in an old pram…do you by any chance have any photographs of the houses opposite the Friends Meeting House or the Children’s home? All good wishes, ALISTAIR PUGH
 
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