Carolyn Walker
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Anyone go to St Mary’s Catholic School handsworth? my husband Barry went there in the sixties
This is the Cof E school not Catholic one of the thread title.For the record, this is the school's history from Britiah History Online :
ST. MARY'S (HANDSWORTH) C. OF E. PRIMARY SCHOOL, Church Hill Road. Handsworth National Sch., adjoining the church, was built for £800 by trustees of Handsworth Bridge Trust in 1812–13 (conveyed to sch. trustees 1860). The management of the sch. was given to a cttee. which included the bridge trustees, who also gave the sch. £20 a year for bibles and prayer books until c. 1850. The sch. was united with the Nat. Soc. 1816. N.o.b. 1820: 195 B, G. Fees 1834: 1d.; the boys received a set of clothes every 2 years and the girls received one every year. In 1846 there were 2 schoolrooms, with a master and mistress and an assistant master.Fees 1859: 1d.–2d. From c. 1869 to 1912 known as Old Handsworth National Sch. New B sch. built c. 1883: total accom. then 489 B, G, I. Reorganized 1892 for M (in new building) and I (in old). Altered 1896. Reorganized 1931 for JI. Accom. for 2 classes provided 1953 in Hutton Road Mission. Became a controlled sch. 1949. Accom. 1961: 4 classrooms, hall.
As is St Mary's church.This is the Cof E school not Catholic one of the thread title.
I went to St Mary's in Hunters Road/Brougham Street 1959 to 1966.Anyone go to St Mary’s Catholic School handsworth? my husband Barry went there in the sixties