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Address, Notes Architect Grid reference Coordinates (links to map & photo sources) Grade Images of England or other link Name Picture Memorial Stone: "The first state school built in Birmingham stood on this site Bloomsbury 1873–1968" 1873–1968 52.493046, −1.870536: Allcock St School †Demolished.
If so, it is Birmingham's first school. 1379 – A traveller records a bridge crossing the River Tame at Handsworth. 1381 – Residents of Deritend and Bordesley given permission to build a chapel next to the River Rea. 1381 – Sir John de Birmyneham provides the first reference to Deritend by name, written as Duryzatehende.
St George's CE Primary School, Ladywood; St Gerard's RC Junior & Infant School, Castle Vale; St James CE Primary School, Handsworth; St James RC Primary School, Rednal; St John Fisher RC Primary School, West Heath; St John's & St Peter's CE Academy, Ladywood; St John's CE Primary School, Sparkhill; St Joseph's RC Primary School, Kings Norton
1831 – (October); the first UK outbreak of cholera occurred in Sunderland – 200 people died. [4] 1832 – Sunderland became a parliamentary borough under the Reform Act, returning two members of Parliament. [1] 1835 – St Mary's Church, Sunderland completed. 1835/6 – Establishment of the modern Borough Council, with the first modern Mayor
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A second 1927 study led to another bond issue and more new schools. By then, Birmingham's segregation laws had been enacted, creating numerous discrete neighborhoods that soon had their own schools. In 1952 an assessment of Birmingham's school resources found that 95% of children residing in the city attended one of the 70 schools in the system.
Most of Birmingham's state schools are academy schools, community schools, free schools and voluntary aided schools. Since the 1970s, most secondary schools in Birmingham have been 11-–-16/18 comprehensive schools, while post GCSE students have the choice of continuing their education in either a school's sixth form or at a further education ...
The two companies jointly constructed Birmingham New Street which was opened in 1854, and Birmingham became a central hub of the British railway system. In 1852, the Great Western Railway (GWR) arrived in Birmingham, and opened their own station in central Birmingham, Birmingham Snow Hill. The GWR line linked the city with Oxford and London ...