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Selly Park County Board School

Vivienne14

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Tge school opened in 1911, and only a few years later, it was commissioned as a war hospital. That dates the photo below to between 1914-1918

SELLY PARK COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Pershore Road.( Selly Park Council Sch. opened 1911, accom. 1,110 B, G, I. Fashoda Road Temporary Council Sch. closed when it opened.Buildings altered and sch. reorganized 1931–2 for SG, JM, I. Senior dept. became a separate sch. 1945 Accom. for 2 classes provided 1947–54 in St. Stephen's Parochial Hall. War damage repaired 1950. I dept. closed 1954, JM dept. 1955, and children transferred to Moor Green Cty. Primary Sch. I dept. building used as annexe of that sch., JM building by Selly Park Girls' Cty. Modern Sch.

SELLY PARK GIRLS' COUNTY MODERN SCHOOL, Pershore Road. Became a separate sch. 1945 accom. 440 G. N.o.b. 1961: 480.
We have a thread about the girls' schoole here:
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/selly-park-school-for-girls-stirchley.29282

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