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'Old' Yardley Wood School
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l think it would have been Yardley Wood Primary & Secondary School on the School Road. The Nursery, Primary and Secondary buildings were next to each other. l went to all of them as l was born there in 1953 & lived in School Road. l was 4 yrs old when l went to the Nursery in School Road and l have very clear memories of my first day there. l left the Secondary School when l was 14 in 1967.
maypolebaz
master brummie
Highters Heath Infants & Juniors was about the same distance from Pendeen Rd as Yardley Wood school.
That's correct. I was born in Pendeen Road and went to those schools.
Terence David Lines
master brummie
Stone me l went to Yardley Wood School Infants, Junior and Seniors. Pendeen Rd Cleeve Rd. Was the chippie in Ravenshill Rd. My mother died when I was three and my grandmother lived at 212 School Rd. My home address was in Maypole.
Terence David Lines
master brummie
Yardley Wood School had two entrances one up a long drive from School Rd the rear one was off Ravenshill Rd there was a third one I remember now that used to be from in a Cul De Sac in Ravenshill Rd that was just past the row of shops where the chippie was.
Terence David Lines
master brummie
The school by Trittiford Park going towards Billesley to the T junction with Yardley Wood Rd was a Catholic school. Our Lady Of Lordes I remember. Opp Chinn Brooke Rd.
Terence David Lines
master brummie
I was under the impression that the old school was the nursery infants and juniors and the secondary modern was the new school.
Janet Hunt
master brummie
Taken from https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-y/yardley-wood/
Yardley Wood Church School opened in 1838 in a former meeting house which doubled as a chapel; there were less than sixty children on roll with one master and a mistress. In 1893 the children were transferred to Yardley Wood Board School which opened with accommodation for 250 pupils. A new school has been built along the road, but the old school buildings still stand on School Road/ Patricia Avenue
Yardley Wood Church School opened in 1838 in a former meeting house which doubled as a chapel; there were less than sixty children on roll with one master and a mistress. In 1893 the children were transferred to Yardley Wood Board School which opened with accommodation for 250 pupils. A new school has been built along the road, but the old school buildings still stand on School Road/ Patricia Avenue
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Ok. Sorry I couldn't help further
Hi, there was a chippie in Ravenshill Road. My sister was friends with a Valerie Lines who lived in Glastonbury Road. Dont know if she might be a relation of yours.
Terence David Lines
master brummie
There were quite a few Lines families in Yardley Wood. Non related to me. Jill Lines and Pauline Lines were in the same class as me all through senior school. Jill Lines who I had a crush on lived in Scribbers Lane.
Terence David Lines
master brummie
I remember the Chippy. Chips were three pence or four pence for a large portion. I used to get sent there every Friday uncle Alf always had Hake aunt Lil cod and uncle Roy plaice, I myself liked plaice. School playing fields entrance was in Ravenhill Rd the phone box being opposite the entrance to the playing fields. The health clinic was further down School Rd next to the library. My brother who was seven years older than me built me a tracking bike for my thirteenth birthday. First day I got it I took off down School Rd. There were a number of girls from my class who were sitting on the health clinic wall, I was just going to show off. Pulled wide to save slowing down to go into the recreation ground banked it the back wheel went from underneath me and I ended up in the gravel. Needless to say I never looked at the girls but grabbed the bike jumped back on and shot into the rec. I was happy it was August and I hoped they had forgot about it by the time we went back to school. Annette Hands was one of those girls I think that was how you pronounced her surname, I only remember Annette as my next door neighbour one Robert Massey said they were related.
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Terence David Lines
master brummie
Terence David Lines
master brummie
I lived at 212 School Rd with my grandmother most of my life. I was also 14 when I left Yardley Wood Secondary Modern, only because my 15 birthday was in August. That was 1962 just in time for the Mod scene.