Red Cross Junior School (Wolverhampton)

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Red Cross Junior School (Wolverhampton) (demolished)
Red Cross Street, Wolverhampton (WV1 4DE)

Badge as depicted in Bunty #28 [26 Jul 1958]

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Red Cross Street Schools were some of the original Board schools opening in 1873 with a department for boys, girls and infants. The boys and girls' departments amalgamated in 1931 to become a junior mixed school and the infants moved into a new building in 1936. The infants and juniors amalgamated in 1960 to form Red Cross Street Primary (Infant and Junior) School. In September 1967 the school closed and pupils were transferred to the newly opened West Park primary School in Devon Road. The reception and Nursery classes remained in the buildings in Red Cross Street which were used as an annexe until the new infant school in Landsowne Road was opened in 1980. The building was later used by Saint Peter and Paul's School, then as an annexe to the Wulfrun College and later to Wolverhampton Polytechnic. It was finally demolished in 1989 to make way for an Asda superstore.

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c.1960 OS map showing the school.

(ref:- The Black Country History website.)
https://www.blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB149_D-EDS-2
https://lostwolverhampton.co.uk/red-cross-street-school/