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Looking into the sun towards the former Apollo Cinema, now a mosque, on the corner of Leslie Road. The house on the corner of Stanley Road was once a corner shop. Its door is now bricked up. This view was familiar to me as I turned left to Forest Fields Grammar School (absent only one half-day, 1959-66).

When High Pavement Grammar School moved to new buildings in 1956 a new, co-educational grammar school, Forest Fields, opened in the Stanley Road building. Forest Fields moved to Carlton Hill some time in the 1970s and now is no more.

A view across the rooftops of Forest Fields, Sherwood Rise and Mapperley Park, taken during a visit by former pupils of the two grammar schools which once occupied the building which is now Forest Fields Primary School. The large building a few streets away is the former Apollo Cinema, now the Jameah Fatimah mosque. For the school's Grade II listing, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458870-clarendon-college-berridge-centre- .

A view from Sturton Street of the rear of what was successively High Pavement and Forest Fields Grammar Schools, now being refurbished to house Forest Fields Primary School. When I was at FFGS from 1959-66 the art room (presided over by the wonderful Mrs Marjorie Macmillan) was at the top of the wing straight ahead, with the library below it. The tall windows to the right were those of the classrooms reached from the upper and lower halls, which were used for assemblies and PE.

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....

The building dates from the 1890s and was successively High Pavement and Forest Fields Grammar Schools, then Claremont Secondary. The new stretch of wall further up Sturton Street, in paler brick, is where the biology and chemistry laboratories were in my time at FFGS. Earlier views from the other end of Sturton Street: Image] (2012) Image] (2013)

A view from an upper-floor window in Forest Fields Primary School, taken during a visit by former pupils of the two grammar schools which once occupied the building. Sturton Street is in the foreground, Sherwood Rise in the middle distance, Mapperley Park beyond and Mapperley Plains on the skyline. The large building a few streets away on the right is the former Apollo Cinema, now the Jameah Fatimah mosque.

The former grammar-school building on Stanley Road has been revamped as Forest Fields Primary's new home. When I was at Forest Fields Grammar School (1959-66), this was the site of the physics lab and huts 1 and 2 (1B's form room in my time). Now it's gone, I'm glad I photographed part of the lab in September 2013: Image