Forest Fields: site entrance and former physics lab

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Sep 2013

The poster on the left announces that the City Council is "proud to be investing in the expansion of Forest Fields Primary and Nursery School" - in the buildings which formerly housed High Pavement and then Forest Fields Grammar Schools. This picture may be of interest to others who, like me, were educated here. The two doors next to the yellow site gate are in the end of what in my time was the boys' toilets. The building whose corrugated red-oxide end gable shows above the wall was the physics laboratory where it rapidly became obvious to me that any talents I had lay in the arts rather than the sciences; I think the bi-metallic strip was about the last thing I understood, in the third week of the first year....

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