New Headington, Oxford
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New Headington, Oxford
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 1 Aug 2013
A former school house at the junction of Windsor Street and Perrin Street. The Headmistress of the former New Headington Infant School, behind the house, lived here. The new school attracted 60-100 fee-paying children of between 3-6 years of age and functioned between 1837- 1908. (The charge for each child was a penny a week). Together with the headmistress’s house, the school cost £3,50l to build. Once old enough, the children moved up to Headington National School (now St Andrew's Primary School) on the London Road. The school closed after 34 years when Headington's first council school opened in Margaret Road, once the headmistress and her flock had transferred there. The building has been used almost continually since then by Guide and Brownie groups and by various commercial firms but is now standing empty and awaiting redevelopment.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.756706
Longitude
-1.211961