Silverdale County Primary School classroom

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Date:1960

Description:In 1872 a school was opened in the Primitive Methodist Sunday school building on Earl Street. In 1875 the school was taken over by Wolstanton School Board and moved to a new Infants School on Mill Street the following year. In 1877 a Junior School was built on the opposite side of the road. The school continued to grow and new extensions were built in 1902-3. The boys and girls schools were combined in 1933 to form a Junior Mixed School.

The new Silverdale County Primary First School was built on Downing Street (now racecourse) in 1976 and officially opened on 27 May 1977. The Junior School on Mill Street carried on until subsidence problems in the late 1980s. A Junior extension was built and opened in November 1990, and the original Mill Street Junior School was demolished, the site now occupied by housing. The original infants school building remains and is now the Youth and Community Centre.


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1920s
Silverdale Council School, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Silverdale Council School, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Pupils and teachers of Silverdale Council School photographed in 1928. The second ...

1960s
Silverdale County Primary School music lesson
Silverdale County Primary School music lesson

Mrs Hand and pupils in a music lesson. In 1872 a school was opened in the Primitive ...

1990s
Silverdale County Primary School Victorian Day
Silverdale County Primary School Victorian Day

Some students are dressed in Victorian costume, and using slates. In 1872 a ...

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Image courtesy of: Mr Robert Blaney

Donor ref:Silverdale CP School classroom 1960 (55/26290)

Source: Miscellaneous Collection

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