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Cape Schools and the Birmingham Workhouse Schools

Cape School (Primary) opened 1888, Smethwick and was, allegedly also known as Hendersons school. Henderson is also linked to the Birmingham Workhouse I believe - he was on the workhouse Board of Guardians. From BHO:

Cape Hill School, or Henderson's School.
In 1846 John Henderson of the London Works built a day and Sunday school in the Cape Hill district. It was apparently rebuilt in 1854. It was still standing in 1857 off what is now Montague Road, but it probably did not long survive Henderson's bankruptcy in 1856.
 
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If that building didn't last long after 1857 it won't be on the maps on the Scottish site as their earliest is 1880s
 
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