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St Andrews School Ada Road School

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mksorsby

proper brummie kid
Please can anyone help my find the schools my dad would have attended, He lived 245 St. Andrews Road Aston, he was born 1915.
He pass his school cert. exam. but his dad said he couldn't go to grammar school because he couldn't afford the things he would need.
 
Please can you help me get to the schools section, I am not good with the computer, sorry just getting old
 
St Andrew's Road Small Heath/Bordesley by the Blues ground?

If so then there was a school on Ada Road which would have been very close to 245.
 
This info about the school is from British History Online


ST. ANDREW'S COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Ada Road, Small Heath.(27) Ada St. Bd. Sch. opened 1885 by Birm. Sch. Bd. Accom. 1,025 M, I. Fees 1d.–3d. Classroom added 1900. Building remodelled 1928. Reorganized between 1928 and 1932 for SB, JM, I. Name changed to Ada Road c. 1935. SB dept. became a separate sch. 1945 (see next sch.). Name changed 1954. Accom. 1961: 12 classrooms, hall.
ST. ANDREW'S BOYS' COUNTY MODERN SCHOOL, Ada Road, Small Heath. Ada Rd. Cty. Modern Sch. became a separate B sch. 1945 (see preceding sch.). Name changed 1954.(28) N.o.b. 1961: 330.

Viv.
 
Thank you for the information, Do you know if there are any records to view of pupils that attended. I never knew my Grandparents or any of the family in Birmingham. My Dad just never talked about his family, although he did attend the funeral of his father with my Mother in 1963 and I did go with them, I stayed with a cousin for the day as I was only young.
 
It is suggested that some records are in the archives at the Library of Bham. However, the dates given are 1885 - 1908 so before the time of your father and if there were later records they may not be open - I think they have to be over 100 years old.

You could email the Library of Bham to ask.
 
There are records but not all are accessible online. As far as I’m aware records for West Midlands or Warwickshire aren’t digitally available. Maybe someone knows what’s available at the Library. .
 
Posted at the same time as MWS !

Also, I don’t know if the school may have very old records (admissions registers and logbooks). Might be worth contacting them. However, this is probably a long shot. Viv.
 
Thank you Viv.. I will try to contact the education authority for the area. It's nice to find these things out. I don't live at all near Birmingham, I am in North Yorkshire, so getting info. from people who are so helpful is wonderful.
 
harryf3355 said:
i was here age 5 to seniors and anix over rd
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We just about overlapped, your first year was my last. I remember the headmaster was Mr Peart, and there was a teacher Miss Day. Mr Fairgreaves taught over the road. Miss Neale taught me recorder. How about the coke pile at the end of the playground? Clip round the ear if you were caught climbing on that. How about the blue goldfish in the outside loo block, if you fell for it that is.
I used to go to and from school via Maxstoke Street, and catch the bus, 53 I am sure, which deposited me at home in Fazeley Street.
A few years later, still at grammar school, I met up with a girl, only for a short time, who was in class with me at Ada Road. I also bumped into a girl who was going steady with one of my old Ada Road mates. He wasn’t there at the time, so I missed a chinwag.
Did you have your sports days on the football ground like we did ?
I have a few photos, but I think that I am possibly not old enough on them for you to be there yet.
Andrew.
 
i remember all off this
the part in the playground where the bins was
just urther up was the part for girls no one allowed up there.
we had races in the play ground and sports day on the bham/city ground.
i was milk monitor to take all the milk to each class ?
i enjoyed that.
not when it snowed.
you was only allowed to leave school. when the bell tower struck 4pm
home time
 
Hi everyone I went to St Andrews infants and juniors then left in 1968 to go senior school in Bordesley Green.
My two brothers carried on into the seniors and my sister went to Tilton road girls school
 
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