Moseley into the Millennium: The Story of Moseley School

by Celia Gaskin (Author), Meriel Vlaeminke (Author), Katherine Gaskin (Author)

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  1998

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  This title tells the story of a remarkable school, its various buildings and the people who lived and worked in them. It charts the social and educational changes which have taken place over the last 150 years and the survival of piece of architectural history. The story began in 1857 when a family of Nonconformists acquired a site in rural Wake Green Road for the expansion of their training college for ministers. The present Moseley School (beginning in 1900 as College Road Board School) brings together different educational traditions as a result of: providing schooling for children whose families were moving out of the overcrowded city centre; the converting of nearby Spring Hill College Moseley Secondary (later Grammar) School (1923); the opening of Moseley Modern Mixed School which replaced the senior school at College Road (1955). Through the bitterly fought debates of the 1970s, Moseley Modern School and Moseley Grammar School amalgamated. Gradually the barriers came down and the school began to develop as a successful comprehensive. But the deterioration of the Victorian building now became evident and led to its gradual closure. However, it was saved from demolition by being given listed status. The school battled to secure funding for its complete restoration which will be finished at the end of 1998.