Description:Class photograph taken outside the St. Nicholas' C of E School building, Church Hill, Codsall. This was the small school at the back of St Nicholas’s Church which was opened in 1864 in time for the 1870 Education Act requiring all children to attend school. As numbers grew so extra classrooms were added. Pupils who passed the 11 plus left for Grammar schools otherwise the pupils stayed there until the age of 14. Codsall Secondary School opened in 1940.