Lyndawn its no trouble especially as this is my neck of the woods and i have done much research on the area over the years..dont have so much spare time these days but i shall make it a mission now to find out what i can about the history of friends hall and the adult classes..somewhere in the back of my mind i think they may have started in an old pub in hospital st in the 1800s but give me some time to look through my old end folders which is full of my research
lyn
Thank you. I know that the adult school class relating to Farm street (using the same structure as the earlier classes of Severn Street) started in 1862 at the Peoples Chapel in Great Kings Street, Hockley. As it grew it then moved to the Farm Street Board Schools and then to Burbury Street Schools when they were built. Their final place was the Friends Hall, once built between 1892-1894, for their use. It was around this time and into the early 1900s that I believe my paternal great grandfather and his sons attended this class. I am looking into the archives in Birmingham Library also. This is all so fascinating and borne out of a request to write the stories of the last few living members of the midlands adult school.
Thanks again
Dawn