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St Marys School Wills Street

Hello Billyboy and welcome to the forum. I started a thread of that school and put two photo's on. I will go and search for it. Jean.

Edit. Unable to trace original thread.
 
My fathers class photo. He is in the 3rd row, on right standing in front of his teacher. I believe the school is called St Mary R.C and it is/was located near Hunters Rd, Hockley. My father was born 1914 so I estimate the photos date mid to late 1920's.
 

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hello

are there any st marys old boys out there. who went to st marys. be nice to hear from you
 
hello mike. what teachers were ther when you was still there. was tom o. louchlin still head master
 
yes he was.other names i remember are mr pozzi,paddy woods,mr mullen and in the infants miss morrell,sisters baptist and collette.mrs short (clare short's mom)was there in some capacity.
 
This thread is created from posts on an earlier thread ("school photos") . Viv.

For ref a summary from the Britsh History Online site.

ST. MARY'S R.C. SCHOOL, Wills Street (B dept.), Brougham Street (G and I depts.). St. Mary's R.C. Sch. established 1850. Built with help from Cath. Poor Sch. Cttee.A.a. 1851: 80 G and I; taught by Sisters of Mercy H.M.I. gave good report 1852. This sch. was presumably the present Brougham St. one, near the convent. B dept. opened 1859 in new building (presumably in Wills St.) comprising one schoolroom. Fees 1d.–4d. Accom. by 1880: 534. B dept. enlarged 1890, and G and I depts. 1894. Altered 1935.St. Silas's Mission Church Hall and 2 rooms in convent used from 1949; accom. in St. Francis's Mission Hall provided 1950. Became an aided sch. 1953. Hall built, as first instalment of new sch., 1954. G and I depts. united 1954. Accom. 1955: 21 classrooms.
 
hi terry thats a cracking class photo..where abouts would your dad have lived when he attended st marys...

lyn
 
Hi Lyn, he would have lived in either Park Rd or Whitmore St. I remember him saying he hated it at that school. The reason he was a Roman Catholic was because his father died just before he was born otherwise he would have been christened C of E, but his mother remarried to a Roman Catholic.
 
regan said:
hello

are there any st Marys old boys out there. who went to st Marys. be nice to hear from you
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Hello there. There seems to be some confusion as to where the school was, St Marys convent school had a main entrance in Hunters Road. There was also an entrance in Brougham Street into the same school. There was a school in Wills Street on the same side as No 8 and between there and Villa Street. I think It was boys only. Mr Tommy O'Locklin ? was the head master when I was there. I knew it as the elementary school.
As my ,mother was a teacher at the convent school [1926 to 1963] I was a student there from1935 until 1941 when I moved to St Philip's next door to the Oratory near the Ivy Bush on Hagley Road.
Miss Kuck was also a teacher there, she came from Redditch where her family had business putting gold eyes into needles.Sister Margaret Mary was the head of the convent school for a long time Thank you for the memories.
 
thanks for the heads up carolina i must have a look at the list to see whats on...i have been inside st marys already...its a wonderful building inside and out and was even shown the small burial ground at the back where past nuns are buried..well worth a look around

lyn
 
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