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Nottingham, NG7 (Forest)
The Stanley Road entrance of what was, until 1956, was the High Pavement Boys' Grammar School. After this High Pavement School decamped to a new building in Bestwood and this building became the co-educational Forest Fields Grammar School. It is now a training location used by the Nottingham Fire and Rescue Service.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones
Taken: 24 Jun 2012
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The western suburbs from Forest Fields
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.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 9 Feb 2015
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Stanley Road: former schools
The building in the left foreground, on the corner of Gladstone Street and Stanley Road, now a community centre, was once Stanley Road Primary School. The grander building beyond was originally High Pavement Boys' Grammar School and later Forest Fields Grammar School. Towards the end of my time as a Forestian (1959-66), the primary school building became part of FFGS, and the base for the arts sixth. The asphalt playground between the two buildings was at that time the site of viciously-contested lunchtime football matches.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 27 Apr 2011
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Nottingham, NG7 (Forest Fields)
Until 1956 this was High Pavement Boys' Grammar School. After this, High Pavement School decamped to a new building in Bestwood and this building became the co-educational Forest Fields Grammar School. It is now a training location used by the Nottingham Fire and Rescue Service. Here there is evidence of the need for additional space and a "Portakabin" was added after Stanley Road had been closed to traffic, although another section of this road continues beyond this enclosure.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones
Taken: 24 Jun 2012
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Forest Fields: renewing a school
Nottingham has had good value from this school, built in 1895, successively High Pavement and Forest Fields Grammar Schools and soon to be the home of Forest Fields Primary School. The scaffolding has come down since I was here in May, and most of the restored windows are in place - see
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 23 Aug 2013
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Ewart Road
Looking down towards Berridge Road, with The Forest in the background.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 24 Sep 2009
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Recycling my old school
High Pavement and then Forest Fields Grammar Schools, this building has been put to various uses since FFGS moved to Carlton in the 1970s. It is now being refurbished and converted for use by Forest Fields Primary School. See
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 1 May 2013
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On Gladstone Street
Libris Bookbinders on the left, the corner of Bradgate Road just beyond the cars.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 27 Sep 2013
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Stanley Road: Forest Fields Primary School playground
A view up what was originally a cobbled street, with Mount Street Mill on the skyline. 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.
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For the Grade II listing, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458870-clarendon-college-berridge-centre- .
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 9 Feb 2015
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School Door - for Boys
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.
(
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 11 Oct 2006
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