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A school united in war and in peace

Posted on September 15, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

Earlier in the year, I started a series of posts containing log book entries for St John’s School, Walsall Wood – I now complete the series with the time period from the 1912 merger to 1945, when the records end.
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Boys will be boys

Posted on April 7, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

As promised, here’s the next section of the logs of St.John’s School, Walsall Wood, from 1880 to 1912 This covers the boys section, whereas last time, we documented the girls.
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Looking after the girls

Posted on March 17, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

For many years the now sad, tired old building in Lichfield Road, Walsall Wood, was the only school in the village. It had opened in 1859 to replace the original school which stood at the corner of Beech Tree Road and King Street, and had itself fallen into disrepair .
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Staff card?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

Here’s an interesting thing. Reader Clive Roberts mailed me with an image of six rather serious looking ladies on a postcard, bearing the handwritten note ‘Staff at Ogley Hay School’.
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The times they were a-changin’

Posted on December 30, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

Here’s a great one from Andy Dennis, which just came in this morning. I’m sure readers will have stuff to add to this. It’s a remarkable artefact and I’m hugely grateful to Andy for sharing it with us. Happy new … Continue reading →

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The graduate – Part one (via The Plastic Hippo)

Posted on July 22, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

The Plastic Hippo has turned out one of his best posts yet, and that’s saying something. This is pointed, prescient and precise. I have yet to meet anyone at all in the field of education who thinks that Gove is … Continue reading →

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Single status (via The Plastic Hippo)

Posted on June 7, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

More bang-on-the-money comment from The Plastic Hippo. The scandal of Single Status in Walsall has been swept under the carpet for far too long. Read this and fear for the future of your council, run by people who plainly haven’t … Continue reading →

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Are you sitting comfortably? (via The Plastic Hippo)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

The Plastic Hippo holds his anemometer up to the cold wind currently blowing through education in Walsall. It’s like the early eighties, all over again. Then I will begin. Once upon a time in a land far, far away, someone … Continue reading →

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