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High Street, WEST BROMWICH, B70 8DJ

An OS cutmark on the nearest (ie NW) corner of the Image; originally levelled at 165.019m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.

A fine old Victorian public building.

The Town Hall, situated in the centre of High Street, was built between 1874 and 1875 in brick and stone to an Italian Gothic design of the architects Alexander & Henman and is a Grade II listed building.

It is nice to see a patch of green in an urban cityscape.

The last use of this building in Lodge Road was as the West Bromwich Campus of Sandwell College. It is the former Ryland Memorial School, later becoming the Municipal Secondary School then West Bromwich Grammar School. It is a Grade II listed building, being listed on 6 June 2000. It was originally built in 1902 in Renaissance Revival style to the design of Wood and Kendrick of Birmingham. A former pupil was actress Madeleine Carroll. Time taken not available.

For more information on this building see Image]; I have been unable to discover online the name of the architect. The blue plaque remembers Madeleine Carroll, the actress and humanitarian, who was born in West Bromwich and was a school pupil here. An Islamic shop now occupies this part of the building.

It has gone from men of letters to men of letters. This building, standing on the High Street in West Bromwich, has carved above the door the words 'POST OFFICE'. It is now in the hands of a tutoring company. Time photo taken 12.24 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) from the north-east end of Lodge Road.

This blue plaque commemorates the attendance of actress Madeleine Carroll at this school, the former Ryland Memorial School, from 1915 - 1923, in Lodge Road, West Bromwich. Time taken not available. Image Image

The last use of this building in Lodge Road was as the West Bromwich Campus of Sandwell College. It is the former Ryland Memorial School, later becoming the Municipal Secondary School then West Bromwich Grammar School. It is a Grade II listed building, being listed on 6 June 2000. It was originally built in 1902 in Renaissance Revival style to the design of Wood and Kendrick of Birmingham. A former pupil was actress Madeleine Carroll. Time taken not available. Image

The West Bromwich Institute has housed various schools since the West Bromwich Municipal Secondary School opened here in 1902, financed by G H Kenrick of the local ironware manufacturing dynasty; see the Victoria County History of Staffordshire https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol17/pp74-83 . The actress and humanitarian Madeleine Carroll was educated here, and a blue plaque to the left of the entrance remembers her. The building housed part of Sandwell College before falling derelict and being damaged by fire in 2013. It is currently occupied by the Al Furqan Islamic lifestyle store and various other businesses.