Description:Inside a classroom at the Evershed Building, Abbot Beyne High School, Winshill, Burton-upon-Trent. Mr Turner's science lesson.
Front row: Matt Bye, Callum Broster, Martyn Balmont, Kyle Bowler. 2nd row: Phil Devitt, Sam Elliott, Rachel Coates, Helen Cooper. 3rd row: Shaun Meddings, Ziggy Gill, Claire Gadsby. 4th row: Rob Goodhand, Mr Simon Turner standing in front of him. 5th row: Adam Lenihan, Georgie.
William Beyne, Abbot of Burton Abbey, endowed a grammar school in the early 16th century, it was opened by 1531. The boys’ grammar school moved to Winshill in 1957. It was administered by the County Borough of Burton upon Trent, and known as The Grammar School with about 600 boys. The girls’ high school opened in 1928. In 1975 the grammar school was merged with the Burton on Trent Girls’ High School and Ada Chadwick Secondary Modern School to become Abbot Beyne mixed Comprehensive School on Mill Hill Lane.
This image is from a collection of photographs of Burton upon Trent commissioned and assembled by Burton upon Trent Civic Society as a record of the town in the year 2000.
Text and photograph © Burton upon Trent Civic Society