Resurrecting an old thread here!!! I've just come across a book belonging to my grandfather in which is a certificate which reads:
Birmingham School Board Presented to Harry Jukes for regular attendance at the Smith Street Inf Board School during the year ended Sept 30th 1886
Signed E Ensor Head Teacher. George B Davis, Clerk of the Board.
He would have been 7 at the time. I presume this must have been the same school (ie in Hockley) although as far as I am aware they lived in the Digbeth area so I would have thought that was quite a way to travel for a little one! I guess Board School meant a school under the control of the Bham School Board, not a boarding school? Has anyone any more info?