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Stanley Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 6GQ

Built by the Nottingham School Board in 1895 for High Pavement Higher Grade (later Grammar) School, the building on Stanley Road became the home of Forest Fields Grammar School on its foundation in 1956, to cater for the post-war bulge. In my day (1959-66) the doors were a dignified municipal green. There was a corresponding door for Girls at the north end of the building, but by the enlightened 1950s these entrances were mixed - though as there were still separate playgrounds for boys and girls enlightenment still had some way to go. (Image] shows the doorway after the building was renovated in 2013-14.)

An old boy of High Pavement Grammar School takes a picture of the entrance he went through every school day of his life sixty years before. See Image] for his view. In grammar-school days the gabled building in the background was known as T Block. Like the infant school to the left and the main building to the right, it is part of the enlarged primary school. 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- .

The building with the spirelet was successively High Pavement and Forest Fields Grammar Schools. After years of decay it is being refurbished to house an enhanced Forest Fields Primary School. This is a view through the site fence from Berridge Road.

A view from an upper-floor window taken against the light early on a brilliant February afternoon, during a visit by former pupils of the two grammar schools which once occupied the building which is now Forest Fields Primary School. The hills around Trowell and Strelley are on the skyline, beyond the rooftops of Radford, Bilborough and Wollaton. The distinctive silhouette of Wollaton Hall shows more obviously on the skyline to the left in larger versions of this image. The building in the right foreground was known as T Block in grammar-school days. In those days there were wooden dinner huts in the playground in front of it.

Originally High Pavement Boys' Grammar, it was the co-ed Forest Fields Grammar School when I was there. Wild and unsubstantiated rumours spoke of Daring Boys climbing the spire to tie knickers to it....

Built by the Nottingham School Board in 1895 for High Pavement Higher Grade (later Grammar) School, the building on Stanley Road became the home of Forest Fields Grammar School on its foundation in 1956, to cater for the post-war bulge (which included me, a Forestian from 1959-66). Forest Fields moved to Carlton Hill some time in the 1970s, became a sixth-form college and is now no more. This is the view down Stanley Road (cobbled in my day) towards Berridge Road.

Built in 1895, this was the home of High Pavement Grammar School for Boys and later of Forest Fields, a co-educational grammar school. After years of neglect, the building was refurbished in 2013 as the new home of Forest Fields Primary School. Stanley Road - cobbled when I was at FFGS from 1959-66 - is now a landscaped playground.

Nottingham has had good value from this building. In its 120 years it has housed High Pavement, Forest Fields and Claremont schools, been used by the fire service for training, and after being restored in 2013-4 became the home of Forest Fields Primary School. Among other images, see Image] and Image For the Grade II listing, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458870-clarendon-college-berridge-centre- .

The building and surrounding playgrounds were refurbished in 2013 as the new home of Forest Fields Primary School. Compare this picture with Image], taken in 2006 when the building was in a neglected state.

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- .