Dixon Road School

[David A Harris]

Re: Dixon Road School

Hi, I attended Dixon Road Infants and Junior school along with my brothers and sister in the late 1950's until mid 1960,s, lots of happy memories of the school. we lived in Cooksey road just on the corner by Dixon Road.
Regards Joyce

Hi Joyce,

Was at Dixon Road Junior 1957-63 and lived in Victoria Avenue (footpath only between Lawden Rd and Bolton Rd). Graham Humphries lived next door and Eric Jones on the other side. We all got through the 11+ and went to Bordesley Green Technical School for Boys. Moved out of Brum in 1967 when they cleared the 'slums'. Happy days.

Recognise any of the names?

Dave Harris

 

[philLB]

I went to Dixon Rd, it was my first school. I left in 67 to be a ten pound pom at the age of 10.
I have some great memories, my best friends, Jimmy Smithers John Milnes and a lovely lass named Leslie Gould.
Jimmy and I were a bit disruptive it seems, I remember a certain slipper reminding my bottom to behave lol.

 

[SmallHeathLad]

Hi All, It has been so fascinating reading the blog. I am part of the new management team who manage what was the Dixon Road Board School. I am really interested in locating some original pictures, if possible inside and outside of the school. The building has been gone back to it's roots of being a building providing education for local residence. The school is an community funded secondary school for girls with 127 on roll. The building has been significantly refurbished.

I attend Dixon Road up until 1975, when I went to secondary school. There used to be two big halls, one upstairs and one downstairs. Looks like the one upstairs has had partitions put up to create classrooms\office space. If you look above that you can see the high vaulted ceiling which that hall had.