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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]
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]
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]
A board school in Kempston, Bedfordshire Country Board School in Devon near South Molton. Opened 1876 for just 16 pupils. Closed 1922. Now a private dwelling (semi-detached) and Grade 2 listed. School boards were ad hoc public bodies in England and Wales that existed between 1870 and 1902, and established and administered elementary schools.
Castle School, Walsall Elmwood School, Rushall The Jane Lane School, Bentley The Ladder School, Walsall; Mary Elliot Academy, Walsall; New Leaf Centre, Willenhall Oakwood School, Walsall Wood
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.
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 ...
It was built by the governors of Walsall Grammar School, for the use of the school and the public, and the minister was the headmaster of the school. The building was sold by the school in 1874 to the townspeople, and it was assigned a parish the following year, from the parishes of St Matthew and St Peter. [4] [5] The church was rebuilt in 1892.