Council School, Great Wyrley

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Date:1905 - 1910 (c.)

Description:Built in 1882, the average attendance then being 160. It was enlarged in 1906. By 1910 the premises were unsatisfactory and the school managers were instructed to reduce numbers by excluding children from other districts. In 1930 attendance averaged 249 boys, girls, and infants. Owing to overcrowding, temporary premises were hired in 1938 in Great Wyrley Working Men's Institute. Later, in the 1960s, it was modernised it became Great Wyrley County Primary School. The school had closed by the 1980s.
Postcard by Wynn & Son, Decorators and Contactors, Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay. Printed in Prussia

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Donor ref:10_092r (219/36815)

Source: Mr Jake Whitehouse

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