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School
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Address
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Built
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Notes
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Mab Lane
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Mab Lane, Norris Green
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Not known
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Separate Infant and Junior schools until about 10 years ago; recently rebuilt.At one time known as Cantril Farm School.
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Macket’s Lane
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Arncliffe Rd, Hunts Cross
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Not known
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My friend Maureen ROGERSON attended this school. She remembers that there was a swimming baths, but this was discontinued because of the expense of keeping the lifeguard. The school closed about 2004.
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Maidford
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Maidford Rd
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1933
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Amalgamated with Colwell to form Blueberry Park in the early 2000s
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Major Lester
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Sherlock St
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1903
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Originally separate schools for Girls, Boys and Infants; Boys’ and Girls’ schools amalgamated in 1964, and then the Infants’ later on. Amalgamated with Eileen Craven in 1997 to form Hope Valley Primary School on the Major Lester site. Some memories on the BBC website.
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Major St
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Major St
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The street ran between Stanley Rd and Kirkdale Rd, just north of Boundary St in Everton. It was certainly open in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, but I don’t know yet when it opened or closed.See: Scottie Press for photos. There are quite a few if you enter the search.
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Malvern
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Huyton
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Not known
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Recently rebuilt
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Manesty's Lane
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Manesty's Lane
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1792
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One of Liverpool's oldest schools. The lane itself was named after Joseph MANESTY, a slave trader. Not sure when it closed. Liverpool Record Office has annual reports for 1846-1850, and a cash book which may be from the school for 1858. May be linked with Hope St school; there are records which cover both schools up to the late 1930s.
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Mann Island Infants' School
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Mann Island
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Not known
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A school for infants in 1859.
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Manual Instruction Centre
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Baker St, West Derby Rd
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Not known
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Corner with Emlyn St. Run by Liverpool School Board
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Manual Instruction Centre
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Chatsfield St Edge Hill
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Not known
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Listed in Slater’s 1859 Directory
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Manual Instruction Centre
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Mill St, Toxteth
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Not known
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Listed in Slater’s 1859 Directory
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Manual Instruction Centre
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Nelson Place, Wavertree Rd
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Not known
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The building is still standing on Wavertree High St
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Margaret Beavan
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Almonds Green, West Derby
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In 1938, listed as an Open Air School. Closed about 2000
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Mariners' Daughters’ School
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George’s Dock
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Not known
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Listed in 1859
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Mary Help of Christians Catholic
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Stonebridge Lane, Croxteth
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1965
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Opened by the Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco at the invitation of the Archbishop. The school is now know as St John Bosco, located in Stonedale Crescent
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Matthew Arnold
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Dingle Lane
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1908
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The old building was demolished in the late 1890s. There is a new building on the site
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Meadow Bank
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Sherwoods Lane, Fazakerley
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Not known
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Melling
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Wheeler Drive, Melling
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Not known
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Merchant Taylors
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Liverpool Rd, Great Crosby
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1618
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Reorganised and rebuilt 1878. The school has current websites for the boys’ school;the girls’ school, junior boys’ school and infants!.
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Mersey View
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Minehead Rd, Aigburth
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Not known
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Methodist Wesleyan
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Bispham St
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Not known
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In 1846, the Liverpool Mercury reported that a Sunday School operated here, and 191 infants attended daily
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Methodist Wesleyan
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Epworth St
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Not known
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Listed in Slater's 1859 Directory
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Methodist Wesleyan
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Great Homer St
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Not known
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Listed as separate infant and junior schools in 1859. The infants is listed as Wesleyan. LRO holds records from 1886 - 1912
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Methodist Wesleyan
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Moss St
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Not known
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Listed in Slater's 1859 Directory. Separate Infants' school. Close to London Rd
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Methodist Wesleyan
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Heath St, Toxteth Park
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Not known
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Listed in Slater's 1859 Directory
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Methodist Wesleyan
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Jamaica St, Jordan St
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Not known
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Listed in Slater's 1859 Directory; separate Infants' school
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Methodist Wesleyan / Hibernian Free School
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Pleasant St
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Not known
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Referred to in an article in the Liverpool Mercury in 1846. At that time, 151 infants and 58 girls attended daily. The school had 236 books in the library! Listed separately in Slater's 1859 Directory. Records for Pleasant St held at the LRO include information on Great Homer St Wesleyan School, St Clement’s CE and Russell St Board School. May be linked to Pleasant St Board School.
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Methodist Wesleyan
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Scotland Rd
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Not known
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In 1846, the Liverpool Mercury reported this as one of the largest Wesleyan day schools, catering for 134 infants and 50 girls daily. There were 275 books in the library.
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Middlefield Primary
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Alderwood Rd, Speke
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2000
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Formed from the amalgamation of Alderwood and Millwood schools. The school has its own website.
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Millstead
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Mill Lane, Wavertree
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Not known
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Old Mill Lane; possibly on the site of the old infants' school
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Millwood
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Greenway Rd, Speke
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1954
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The school Junior School grew so rapidly that some of the children had to be accommodated in other Speke schools for a time in the mid 1950s.
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Monk St
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Monk St, Everton
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1900
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Opened as a temporary school; free - no charges made. In 1903 there were about 350 pupils. The school is still listed in 1911.
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Monksdown Primary
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Frinstead Rd, Norris Green
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1928
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I’m sure I’ve seen this date somewhere recently, but can’t now track it down! The Junior School was rebuilt in the late 1960s and the Infants’ in 1997. Now amalgamated into a single primary school.
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Moorfields
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Moorfields
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See Old Church (below)
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Morrison
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Mossley Avenue, Mossley Hill
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1907
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There was a temporary school (an iron building) in Greenbank Rd from 1900. The 1907 building was demolished around 2004 when Morrison amalgamated with Lidderdale into Greenbank Primary School
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Mosspits
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Mosspits Lane, Childwall
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1927
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Separate Infant and Junior schools. Originally a wooden building, the schools were going to be a classic infants downstairs / juniors upstairs arrangement which was never completed.
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Mother Teresa Catholic
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Titchfield St, Everton
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Not known
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Formed from the amalgamation of St Anthony's and St Sylvester’s.
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Mount Pleasant Catholic
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Mount Pleasant
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Not known
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RC (Sisters of Notre Dame). Plans for a ’Training College for Mistresses’ were submitted in 1856. My great grandmother was here on census night in 1891. My mother trained here in the 1950s.
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Much Woolton Catholic
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Watergate Lane, Woolton
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1992
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Linked to St Mary's Woolton. Built on the site of St Bennet’s Priory; opened in 1992, although some classes had been based here for a while (probably since 1967, when older Junior children were taught at this site).
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Much Woolton School
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School Lane, Much Woolton
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1610
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Apparently attended by St John ALMOND in about 1650. LRO holds plans for a building dated 1847. The school is listed in Slater's 1859 Directory; ceased as a school in the mid-late 19th century. It has apparently had many purposes since then, including being a cowshed. It is now a nursery.
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Municipal Central Technical School
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Byrom St
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Not known
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Between Scotland Place and Clayton St
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Nash Grove Ragged School
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Prince Edwin St, Everton
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Not known
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See Great Homer, Campion, Welsh Calvinist Methodist
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Netherfield Rd Council School
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Netherfield Rd
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1920
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When it opened the school accommodated over 1,100 children - boys, girls and infants.
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Netherton Moss
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Swifts Lane, Netherton
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Not known
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Netherton Park
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Chester Ave, Bootle
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Not known
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New Heys
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Heath Road
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Not known
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The school is now single sited. Originally Gilmour Seniors; there was a house called New Heys in the area, where a merchant lived
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Newsham
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Boaler St (Primary); Sheil Rd (Secondary Modern)
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Not known
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Primary: see Boaler St; Secondary Modern - was Newsham, then Fairfield. Often known as Sheil Rd
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Noonan CE School
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Everton
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Not known
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Probably in Everton - that's where the schoolmaster was living in 1861 anyway - in Dover St
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Norman Pannell
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Brownbill Bank Netherley
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1968
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Built to serve the new housing in the area. Photo courtesy Liverpool Record Office
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North Corporation
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Bevington Bush / Blackstock St
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1825
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Built by the Liverpool Corporation, partly as a substitute for the Grammar School founded by John Crosse, which had closed in 1815. Transferred to Liverpool School Board in 1872 and enlarged the following year. The school had the right in perpetutity to nominate a scholar at Liverpool College, Shaw St. The holder of this place in 1903 was George FISHER of Cavendish St. There were about 700 pupils in 1900. Next door to St Saviour's Female Refuge in 1911. Has been listed, delisted and demolished
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Northcote
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Northcote Rd, Walton
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1885
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Originally built by Walton School Board.
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North Liverpool Academy
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Heyworth St
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2007
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Replaces Anfield Comprehensive on Priory Rd - though that may be a bit simplistic! Thanks to Steve for this photo.
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Northway
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Walgrave Rd, Wavertree
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1927
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Close to Wavertree Garden Suburb.
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Notre Dame High School
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Maryland Street
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1853
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My Aunt - born 1915 - attended there from the age of 13 - 17. She still quotes Sister Mary of the Good Shepherd! Also listed as ”Notre Dame Demonstration Primary School” - known as The Dem! Maria says: in the 50/60s when I was there, the school uniform colours for the Demonstration School were Dark brown and Yellow. The Commercial School were Royal blue and green and the High School was Dark blue and white. You had to wear your uniform with pride outwith the School. You were easily identified for any misdermeanours out of school. reported and had to own up at Assembly! This photo is the main entrance for Maryland St
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Notre Dame Collegiate, Catholic
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Everton Valley
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1869
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My mother attended this school in the 1940s. It still looks fantastic, dominating Everton Valley. Like many other people I still call it Everton Valley.
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Notre Dame, Woolton Catholic Girls'
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Speke Rd, Woolton
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1970
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There is a convent in Speke Rd. For many years there was a Preparatory School there; the secondary school was in Woolton Hall, which is now privately owned. Woolton Hall amalgamated with Notre Dame Mount Pleasant in 1970. Headteacher was Sr Margaret Taylor, Deputy Head was Miss (Bessie) Lunt. Really stupid uniform, though! I know, I had to wear it. In the early 1980s, amalgamated with La Sagesse to form St Julie's.
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Nugent RC Boys’ School
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Overbury St
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1983
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Named after Father James NUGENT. Created in the Catholic Reorganisation of 1983 from a range of other Catholic Boys’ Schools, including Cardinal Godfrey, St Anne’s, St George’s, St Nicholas. Located on the site of St Anne’s in Overbury St. First Headteacher was Brother CAREY from Cardinal Godfrey. The school close din the 1990s; pupils transferred to Campion in Everton. The building is now the site of the Christian Fellowship School, which moved there in 1997.
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Oakes St
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Oakes St
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1905
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Listed in 1911. According to the Record Office, a temporary board school. The LRO holds the log book from 1904-1914. One of the oral histories in the LRO (Mary Miers) refers to a Hebrew School in Oakes St. There was certainly a Jewish cemetery there at one time, but it had been closed for many years. The remains were exhumed in 1904 for reburial in Broadgreen cemetery.
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Old Church CE
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Leathers Lane, then Moorfields
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1790
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Linked to Our Lady & St Nicholas, Parish Church. Originally sited in Leathers Lane, the school moved to Moorfields about 1807. In 1810, 24 pupils from the school attending a service at St Nicholas were killed when the steeple collapsed. The school was rebuilt in 1863 (LRO holds plans for a new building dated 1861). In 1900 -average attendance about 500 junior and infant pupils. The school had places for 600. The school closed in the mid 1930s, when the pupils transferred to St Bartholomew’s, Eaton St in January 1935.
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Old Swan Charity School
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Old Swan
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1792
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Original patrons were Messrs T STANIFORTH, J JACKSON, R WATT and T PARKE - prominent merchants of Liverpool. Children were not to be taught to read and write, but to learn about right and wrong.
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Old Swan Technical School
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Broadgreen Rd
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Not known
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Next to the Corporation Tramways Office, corner of Catharine Terrace
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Olive Mount
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Childwall Rd
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Not known
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Amalgamated with the Holt, now known as Childwall Sports College. The site was demolished around 2004.
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Orrell Primary
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Sefton Rd, Bootle
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Not known
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Now amalgamated with Roberts Rd into a brand new school.
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Oulton Secondary School
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Clarence St, Liverpool
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1907
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Corner with Pleasant St. William OULTON was a prominent member of Liverpool School Board. In 1903, he was chair of the Technical Instruction Committee (other members of which were Philipt HOLT, Herbert RATHBONE and Florence MELLY) and chair of Liverpool Council of Education (other members: Canon Major LESTER and J W ALSOP. He lived in Cuckoo Lane, Gateacre. Head in 1911 was Robert NIXON, BA. LRO has records from 1899; the school was based in the building which was originally the pupil teacher college. In 1938, the girls - with their teachers - transferred to Childwall Valley High School. The school is still listed at Clarence St in the Directory, with Headmaster W J R GIBBS. The school eventually closed in 1943. The boys and their teachers were transferred to the Liverpool Collegiate.
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Our Lady & St Nicholas CE
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Eaton St
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1955
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Originally named St Bartholomew’s, the school was renamed about 1955 - it is listed as Our Lady & St Nicholas in the 1955 Directory. Lilian FOX was Headteacher from 1972-1990. Moved to a new site in Sylvester St in the late 1960s and pupils from other schools which closed - St James the Less and St Anne’s Christian St - transferred there. The school closed in 1990, and is now the site of the Vauxhall Millennium Centre.
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Our Lady and St Philomena’s Catholic
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Sparrow Hall Road
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1942
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The school was for children of all ages, but grew very rapidly. Eventually, separate infant and junior schools were built.
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Our Lady & St Swithin’s Catholic
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Gilmoss
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1953
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Originally known as Gill Moss RC, run by the Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco from 1959.
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Our Lady Bishop Eton Catholic
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Green Lane, Mossley Hill
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1951
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This is a relatively new school, based in the building previously occupied by St Anthony of Padua School. The parishes were divided between the two churches, and the children likewise. The school is on Green Lane, between Woolton Rd and Menlove Avenue. Date approximate - I keep on forgetting to check!
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Our Lady Catholic (Our Lady of Reconciliation)
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Eldon St
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1867
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Later Our Lady of Reconciliation; built for 1,200. Marked on the 1906 map. Headteachers include Tom WALSH. Pictures of the school are on the Scottie Press website. Closed 2003 when it amalgamated with St Gerard's and Mother Teresa to form The Trinity.
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Our Lady Immaculate Catholic
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Northumberland Terrace, Everton
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Not known
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Probably built on the site of the Girls' Industrial School. The school has its own website
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Our Lady of Fatima High School Catholic
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Margaret Street
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1956
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The site on Townsend Avenue (now All Saints’ RC Junior Derpartment) was Our Lady of Fatima. This was at one time part of John Hamilton Comprehensive. Renamed Our Lady’s High School around 2000. Now part of one of the new academies.
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Our Lady of Good Help Catholic
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Chestnut Grove, Wavertree;
South Drive, Wavertree
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1872
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Formed out of the district of St Oswalds. The new church of Our Lady of Good Help opened on 1 May 1887. The building which had served as a temporary chapel since 1871 was converted into an infant school Enlarged 1887. Headteacher at one time was Joe COGHLAN, who went on to be Head at St Sylvester’s. The current building in South Drive dates from 1970, and backs onto the old school and the parish centre.
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic
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Chipping St, Toxteth Park
North Hill St
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1865
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Enlarged 1872 and 1886. In December 1960 part of original building was destroyed by fire. The new school opened in 1961 - 100 years after the original building. The photo here is of the church. LRO holds log books 1887-1947. There are other links to photos of the school after the fire, on Flickr.
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Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic
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Hartsbourne Avenue, Belle Vale
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1958
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The Junior School opened in 1958 - the first Headteacher was a Mr G SMYTHE. The Infants opened a year later, and the Secondary Modern in 1960. The Secondary Modern closed in 1983 with Catholic Reorganisation, children transferring to SFX and St Julie’s.
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Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic
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Stand Park Ave, Bootle
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Not known
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In the Netherton area
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Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic
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Ford Close, Litherland
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Not known
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Our Lady, Star of the Sea Catholic
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Kepler St, Everton
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Not known
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Between Everton Rd and Everton Terrace. Listed in 1911 as Kepler St, Seaforth. In 1916, there was an RC school in Seaforth Vale listed as “Star of the Sea”.
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Oxford St Ragged School (Industrial)
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Oxford St
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Not known
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Listed in Slater’s 1859 Directory
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Paddington High School
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Mount Vernon Green
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1968
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This school was open when I was a teenager in the 1970s. We were always told terrible things about the students from this school, and lived in constant terror - rather exciting, in retrospect! The building became a Local Authority training and resource centre, and has been home to Archbishop Blanch Girls’ High School for almost 15 years.
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Palmerston
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Beaconsfield Rd, Woolton
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1970
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Special School; date of opening a bit of a guess! Photo courtesy of Liverpool Record Office
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Park Hall
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Huyton Hey Rd
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Not known
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Built in the 19th Century; photo on the Knowsley website is dated 1906.
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Park Lane School
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Park Lane
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1878
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Listed as separate infant and junior schools (Corporation South) in 1859. The accommodation was said to be 'scarcely adequate' in 1878 when it was certified as Park Lane School. Matron in 1900 was Miss Robina FraserLinks with the school in Northumberland St. Closed either before or just after the Great War
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Park Rd Ragged School (Industrial)
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Park Rd
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Not known
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Listed in Slater’s 1859 Directory
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Park St Ragged School (Industrial)
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Park St, Toxteth Park
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Not known
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Listed in Slater’s 1859 Directory
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Parkhill Rd
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Parkhill Rd, Toxteth Park
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1860
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The school backed onto David St - part of Dingle’s Holy Land area. Early records (up to the 1900s) have it listed as a Church of England school. The school amalgamated in the late 1990s with Beaufort St to form Beaufort Park. The last Headteacher was Peter RIREY. For a time, children were bused from Beaufort St to Parkhill. The old building was eventually demolished in about 2002. Thanks to Ron Johnson for the photo.
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Parklands High School
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Central Avenue Speke
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2003
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Replaced Speke Comprehensive.
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Penrhyn St
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Penrhyn St, Everton
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1912
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There are some good photos of this school on the Mersey Gateway site. It became unsafe, I think. Peripatetic teams were based there for many years, when the school population dwindled. They moved out too in the mid 1990s, and the building was subsequently demolished.
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Pinehurst
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Pinehurst Avenue
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1928
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The two sites were built separately. The Junior Boys’ School opened in August 1939 Recently amalgamated from separate infant and junior schools.
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Pleasant St
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Pleasant St, Liverpool
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1808
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Founded by the Benevolent Society of St Patrick in premises in Bolton St, as the Hibernian Free School. Moved to Pleasant St in 1818. William Rathbone chaired the School Committee from 1843 until his death. Transferred to Liverpool School Board in 1873; amalgamated with the Welsh Charity School, Russell St in 1873 and St Columba’s, Pleasant St in 1894. By 1900, the average attendance was just over 700. A new building on the opposite side of Pleasant St was erected in the late 1999. The old building is being refurbished.
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Presbyterian School
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Mount Pleasant
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Not known
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Listed in Slater's 1859 Directory. There had been a Unitarian School in Mount Pleasant since 1790 or so.
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Prescot Grammar
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Church St, Prescot
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1544
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The original site was used l about 1760; it moved to the High Street.
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Prince Edwin Primary
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Prince Edwin St
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Amalgamated with Penrhyn CP and Salisbury CP in 1980 to form Roscommon Infants and Roscommon Juniors. The Headteacher, Miss M SKIETH, became Head of Roscommon Infants.
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Prince Rupert
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Steers St
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1885
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Originally Prince Rupert (Steers St); there were a number of schools with “Prince Rupert” as a prefix. This dropped in 1967 and the school became simply Steers St. In 1903 there were separate Senior Boys, Senior Girls and Infants Departments. Headteachers were John HOWARTH, Mrs Eva LEWIS and Mrs Ann CALVERT respectively. Liverpool Record Office holds records from 1920 - 1977.
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Princes Park Secondary Modern
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Not known
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Became Arundel Comprehensive in 1966-67
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Princes School
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Selbourne Street
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Not known
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Prior Academy
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Church Lane, St Peter’s
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1808
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Established by Richard Prior. Listed in many of the Directories, and referred to in the ‘Streets of Liverpool’ which states that Mrs PRIOR ran a day school for girls at the same address.
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Quakers’ School
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London Rd
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On the corner with Hotham Place (previously known as Ducan St). The school was built on the site of an old mill.
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Quakers’ School
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Quakers’ Alley
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1700
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Date approximate. The meeting house on the site in Hackin’s Hey was erected in 1700. The school was under the direction of Miss FARRAR. There is an Ann FARRAR listed as running a school in Stanley St in 1790.
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Quarry Bank High School for Boys
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Harthill Rd, Calderstones
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1922
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A grammar school - attended by John Lennon, hence the name of his first group, The Quarrymen. Quarry Bank Amalgamated with Calder High to form Calderstones.
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Queen Mary High School
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Anfield Rd, Anfield Long Lane, Fazakerley
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1910
1940
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Named after the wife of King George the Fifth; originally located in Anfield Rd. Later Queen Mary Comprehensive, and Roscoe. Closed in the late 1990s, amalgamating with Alsop. Joan CALDICOTT has moved to Canada, and there was a Queen Mary reunion there recently.
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Queen of All Saints Catholic Secondary
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Townsend Lane, Anfield
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1962
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Closed in 1983, amalgamating with Sacred Heart, St Ambrose Barlow and St Michael’s to form the new Our Lady of Fatima High School. The Headteacher, Mrs FORD, went to Broughton Hall; the building was retained temporarily as part of Our Lady of Fatima, but now houses All Saints’ Primary Junior Department.
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Queen's College
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Mount St
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Not known
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in connection with the University of London
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Queens Rd
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Queens Rd, Everton
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1873
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This was the first school built and opened by Liverpool School Board. In 1900 the average attendance was 1,066. There were four departments - Senior Boys, Senior Girls, Juniors and Infants. At one point known as Prince Rupert (Queens Rd); the ”Prince Rupert” suffix was dropped in 1969. Closed in 1973. The Head, Mr J SCARTH, went to Arnot Boys and most of the children transferred to Whitefield CP. The building was demolished.
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Queensland St School Board Day Industrial
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Queensland St, Edge Hill
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1882
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Opened in 1882; the rules were sanctioned by the Secretary of Stae in 1884. This red brick building housed neglected children. Their parents or friends paid 2 shillings a week which covered education and training as well as food. At the turn of the 20th century there were over 250 children there. LRO has some records, but they are closed until 2014. The school closed in 1928.
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