List of Birmingham board schools

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This is a list of the Birmingham board schools, built between the Elementary Education Act 1870 which established board schools, and the Education Act 1902, which replaced school boards with Local Education Authorities. Most of the board schools were designed by the firm Martin & Chamberlain (M&C).

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[edit] List of board schools

From these sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6]:

Name Picture Address, Notes Architect Grid reference Coordinates
(links to map & photo sources)		 Grade Images of England or other link
Allcock St School Other names: Deritend or Bordesley, now listed as The Bridge Centre and Community Industry. Appears to have been demolished. 1875-80 M&C [2] SP081864 Grade II listed IoE, IoE
Bristol Street Board School At junction of Irving Street and Bristol Street. Demolished 1960s for widening of the Horsefair road. Was used as a meeting place for the Christian Society from 1877 until 1892. [5][6] SP068861
Icknield Street School
near the Hockley Flyover, north of the Jewellery Quarter. 1883 M&C [1] SP057882 52°29′38″N 1°54′57″W / 52.4940, -1.9158 Grade II* listed IoE, Master's house IoE
Stratford Road Primary School
Now Ladypool Junior & Infant School, Sparkbrook. First M&C school built after Chamberlain's death [5]. The school was extensively damaged in the Birmingham Tornado on 28 July 2005 and lost its distinctive Martin & Chamberlain tower. For damage see [1] and [2]. 1885 M&C [1][2] SP086848 52°27′40″N 1°52′30″W / 52.4611, -1.8749 Grade II* listed IoE
Harborne School
106 High Street, now the Clock Tower Community Education Centre. 1885, M&C [2] SP035845 52°27′35″N 1°56′47″W / 52.4596, -1.9465 Grade II listed IoE
Oozells Street Board School
Listed as Furniture Stores of City of Birmingham Education Department; College of Food and Domestic Arts; now the Ikon Gallery. 1878 M&C [5][1] SP060866 52°28′38″N 1°54′47″W / 52.47730, -1.91309 Grade II listed IoE
Floodgate School
Floodgate Street and Milk Street, Deritend, now South Birmingham College Arts and Media Campus, formerly Hall Green College annexe. 1890 [2] [7] SP078864 Grade II listed IoE
Small Heath School
Waverley Road, Byron Road, also known as County Grammar School, Small Heath; Hall Green Technical College[5] 1880-85 or 1892 M&C [1][2] SP097852 Grade II* listed IoE, Headmaster's house IoE
Somerville School
Somerville Road, Small Heath, B10 9EN (modernised). 1892-4 M&C [8] SP099859
Tilton Girls School
Tilton Road, B9. Now Darul Barakaat Mosque and Community Centre. 1890 [3] SP092866 Grade II listed IoE
Dixon Road County Primary School
Dixon Road, Small Heath, B10 0BP. Also fronts Cooksey Road. Was Newlands Centre and Regents Park Annexe & 48 Cooksey Road, Bordesley. Also BCC furniture recycling and Birmingham Community Transport. Now Shah Poran Islamic Jami Mosque And Community Trust. 1880-90 [3][1] SP088857 Grade II listed IoE, IoE
Garrison Lane Nursery School
Garrison Lane, Bordesley, B3 4BS. Now Kownayn Primary School and Garrison Lane Centre. c1885 M&C [3] SP086869 Grade II listed IoE, Headmaster's house, No 106 IoE
Dudley Road School
Now Summerfield Centre; was Summerfield Junior and Infants School, Dudley Road, Winson Green; listed as Main Block to Handsworth Technical College 1878 M&C [5] SP042876 52°29′13″N 1°56′19″W / 52.4869, -1.9385 Grade II listed IoE
Barford Road School
Now Barford Road Primary School, Barford Road, Winson Green 1887 M&C [5] SP044873 52°29′04″N 1°56′06″W / 52.4845, -1.9351
Nechells Junior and Infant School
Eliot Street, Nechells, Birmingham, England. Originally Nechells County Primary School 1879 SP094896 Grade A locally listed building

[edit] Other board schools

Using source [3]:

Using source [5]:

  • Constitution Hill 1883 (demolished 1967)
  • Denis Road Board School 1896
  • Upper Highgate Street (demolished)
  • Moseley Road
  • Marlborough Road School 1896

[edit] Other schools from the board school era

Birmingham Board Schools
Name Picture Address, Notes Architect Grid reference Coordinates Grade Images of England link
Camp Hill Circus School
Listed as City of Birmingham Polytechnic. Built as King Edward Camp Hill School for Boys (so not run by the School Board} (used until 1956), and extended with a school for girls. Tower and roof damaged by fire in 1901[4]. Now the Bordesley Centre, run by Muath Welfare Trust. 1883 M&C [2] SP083856 52°28′05″N 1°52′41″W / 52.468, -1.878 Grade II listed IoE

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

  • John Ruskin and Victorian Architecture, Michael W Brooks, 1989
  1. ^ a b c d e f Buildings of England - Warwickshire, Nikolaus Pevsner and Alexandra Wedgwood, 1966, 1974, ISBN 0-14-071031-0
  2. ^ a b c d e f g *Victorian Architecture in Britain - Blue Guide, Julian Orbach, 1987, ISBN 0-393-30070-6
  3. ^ a b c d e Images of England
  4. ^ a b King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys 1813-1983, D I Thomas
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h The Best Building in the Neighbourhood?, Martin and Chamberlain and the Birmingham Board Schools, The Victorian Society, West Midlands Group, May 1968, F. W. Greenacre, Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham Collection B.Col 48.33
  6. ^ a b Digital Ladywood (photographs of Birmingham)
  7. ^ University of Birmingham Domus - Floodgate School PDF 24Kb
  8. ^ University of Birmingham Domus - Somerville School - PDF 37 Kb
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