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Holden was a member of Walsall Borough Council for more than sixty years. [1] He was the mayor of Walsall on three occasions: in 1870/71, 1871/72 and 1904/05. [3] He was also a member of the Walsall School Board and the Walsall Board of Guardians, and a justice of the peace for the borough of Walsall and the county of Staffordshire. [4]
Pelsall Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Pelsall, an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.. It opened in September 1963 as Pelsall Secondary Modern (serving pupils aged 11 upwards), becoming a 13–18 comprehensive school in September 1972 under a local reorganisation of education by Aldridge-Brownhills council, which would be ...
The towns of Walsall, Bloxwich, Darlaston and Willenhall have always used these age ranges, but the Aldridge, Brownhills and Streetly areas (which became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in 1974) adopted 5–9 first, 9–13 middle and 13-16/18 secondary schools in September 1972.
Pat Collins in 1921 Memorial clock in Walsall. Patrick Collins (12 May 1859 – 9 December 1943) was a Liberal MP for Walsall (1922–1924) and Mayor of Walsall (1938), but he is chiefly remembered for his involvement in the fairgrounds industry; in fact, the "Pat Collins Funfairs" company still bears his name.
The school had (and still has) strong connections to St Matthews Church in Walsall, [2] where private contributors and collections funded the school in the early days. Originally for younger children, the school began educating older pupils in 1884. In 1965 the senior part of the school relocated to its current location in Birmingham Street. [3]
In 2009 the school was judged Good. [9] After becoming an academy, the school was again judged Good in 2013. [10] then in 2017 the school was judged as Requires Improvement due to crumbling buildings known as the South and West blocks one of which the South Block has recently been demolished and replaced by the brand new KWB2 block. And finally ...
The Story of Sister Dora of Walsall Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1952). Millicent Price in her book refers to a biography of Sister Dora written by one Margaret Lonsdale and published during the 1880s "It ran into 39 editions and was included in the Tauchnitz library" but provides little detail and refers to "bitter" criticism of ...
A wooden board listing all the town mayors who have served since 1377 was erected on the wall of the council chamber ante-room. [5] In 1916 during the First World War, the mayor, Mary Slater, was hit by shrapnel and subsequently died from her injuries during an attack on the council house from a Zeppelin. [5]