Greenmore College Edgbaston

[PETER VINCE]

A good memory of Greenmore College was that the sportsmaster was Gil Merrick the B'ham and England goalkeeper.

I remember he was the last one term to fill in his comment as to each child and he wrote the same for everyone "Tries hard" Unfortunately he spelt it "Try's hard" and they all had to be done again!

 

[nibby1999]

Any person go to Greenmore college at edgbaston

 

[BernardR]

Greenmore was I believe close to the County Ground unless there were two of them.

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[BernardR]

So we do have two Greenmore Colleges - one in Edgbaston and another in Hampstead Road. Best to make clear which one is referenced in posts I feel.

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[Rushburn]

Greenmore College was a private sceondary school. Although for many years, the college was on Priory Road between the Pershore Road and the Bristol Road (Where Odell Place is now) from wartime onwards, it was originally in Union Street, just off High Street and next door to Montague Burtons (According to Kelly's Guide 1940). My father went to the school until 1930, before walking out on his 14th birthday. Has anyone any information, school photos etc (Particularly from the late 1920s), please?

Patrick

 

[Nigelhls]

And here are two of Greenmore College, May 1932, also with Bobbie Poole at the back. I don't know anything more about Greenmore College, but I'd be pleased to hear from anyone who does. I can provide high-resolution copies if anyone wants a closer look.
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Greenmore College was a private sceondary school. Although for many years, the college was on Priory Road between the Pershore Road and the Bristol Road (Where Odell Place is now) from wartime onwards, it was originally in Union Street, just off High Street and next door to Montague Burtons (According to Kelly's Guide 1940). My father went to the school until 1930, before walking out on his 14th birthday. Has anyone any information, school photos etc (Particularly from the late 1920s), please?

Patrick

Hi, Patrick.
I was looking through some of my Dad's old papers, and found a certificate from the College of Preceptors: it was an for an examination written by him, at Greenmore College Ltd. in 1935, when he was 15.
The Dean was a Mr. Herbert Ward.

I looked op the College of Preceptors and found that it had been established in 1846 and had changed its name to the College of Teachers in 1998.

 

[Brian Tracey Wright]

Any person go to Greenmore college at edgbaston

I did. Happy happy days...69 to 71

 

[Brian Tracey Wright]

Greenmore was I believe close to the County Ground unless there were two of them.

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it was...I went there...great times

 

[Vivienne14]

An advert detailing the various sites of the College in 1967.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Vivienne14]

First football lesson - in blazers ? Only one boy looks suitably dressed. A lesson with Gil Merrill - the boys must have been in awe - and paying full attention! Viv.

 

[Simon w]

Hello, I was a pupil at greenmore college in the 1970s just before it closed down, does anyone know the date it closed ?

Thanks

 

[Paul Fell]

I believe it closed in 1976 Simon. I was there from Sept 1955 to Dec 1960.

 

[Dianelh]

I believe it closed in 1976 Simon. I was there from Sept 1955 to Dec 1960.

I went to Greenmore around the time you were there. Can you remember the fancy school uniform supposed to be designed by Norman Hartnell? It was a grey box plated skirt and short jacket with a Peter Pan collar blouse and a blue turned up brim hat with ribbons at the back. We had to buy it from Horne Brothers in town. It cost £13.10s 6d which was around the sum my dad earned in a week. We used to go to Edgbaston Cricket Ground for games lessons. I passed the 13 plus and went to grammar school to save my parents scrimping and scraping for fees.

 

[Simon w]

I went to Greenmore around the time you were there. Can you remember the fancy school uniform supposed to be designed by Norman Hartnell? It was a grey box plated skirt and short jacket with a Peter Pan collar blouse and a blue turned up brim hat with ribbons at the back. We had to buy it from Horne Brothers in town. It cost £13.10s 6d which was around the sum my dad earned in a week. We used to go to Edgbaston Cricket Ground for games lessons. I passed the 13 plus and went to grammar school to save my parents scrimping and scraping for fees.

I believe it closed in 1976 Simon. I was there from Sept 1955 to Dec 1960.

Thank you, that makes sense, means I can work out my different school years. I must have been there 74-76. …happy if hazy memories

 

[superdad3]

Very confusing to have info about two distinct colleges that happen to share the same name on the same thread.

Here's some notes about the Edgbaston Greenmore College:


MOSELEY MEMORIES by Susan Smith, nee Bromilow – April 2022 My mother’s parents were married on 6 July 1909 from the family home, ‘Welton’, Yardley Wood Road. Her mother’s much younger sister Dorothy went to Moseley College, on the near left corner of Yardley Wood Road and Wake Green Road going towards town (the 13A and 24 ‘bus route, the latter going past the Women’s Hospital.) By the time we lived in Moseley the school didn’t have a good reputation (it was for girls only) but not as bad as Greenmore College, on the 1A bus route between Pershore and Bristol Road on the left. The main school was in a big house on the corner of Priory and Bristol Road but the teenage pupils – it was a mixed school – would be lounging around the cobbled yard at the back, which in the old days must have been the stable yard. The uniform was bright green and purple; there was a distinct touch of St Trinians about it all. The girls had blouses half undone, ties pulled down and skirts folded over at the top to make them shorter. I wondered if they ever stopped flirting with each other enough to learn anything. Slightly nearer to Moseley, opposite the Tally Ho club, there was a smaller wooden nursery-type school with a long narrow garden; you could see younger children running down the central path. This may have been the junior department of Greenmore College.

 

[Vivienne14]

We now have two separate threads.

There is a thread for Greenmore College in Handsworth here:
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/greenmore-college-broughton-house-handsworth.42693