Forest Fields Primary School: the assembly hall
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Forest Fields Primary School: the assembly hall
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 9 Feb 2015
When I was a pupil here in the 1960s, this was the Lower Hall, used for boys' PE and all hung-about with ropes and climbing bars. Our morning assemblies and public examinations took place in the Upper Hall, above this one and complete with a stage on which our gowned teachers sat, which is now divided into classrooms. The very sympathetic restoration which made the building suitable for younger children uncovered the splendid tiled dado. Forest Fields Primary is the fourth school – after High Pavement and Forest Fields Grammar Schools and Claremont Secondary – to occupy the Grade II listed building on Stanley Road, which was refurbished at a cost of £6.5m in 2013-14. This picture was taken during a tour of the building by Old Paviors (and two Old Forestians), some of whose memories of the school dated back to the late 1930s. Image] shows the building in 2003. Image] and Image] show building work in progress in 2013. For the Grade II listing, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458870-clarendon-college-berridge-centre- .
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52.970541
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-1.166245