Beardall Street Secondary Modern School (Hucknall)

Badge as depicted in Bunty #48 [13 Dec 1958]






The Education Act of 1870 allowed for the setting up of Local School Boards. Hucknall quickly established its Board and as a result, constructed these schools (boys, girls and infants) at a cost of £2000, due to the interest of Mr JE Ellis, coal owner. A report dated 2nd January 1873 said the school was open

The photograph is of the beautiful stone school building which stood on the corner of Beardall Street and Duke Street which is now demolished. This was the first Board school in Nottinghamshire, possibly the first in the country. It housed boys, girls and infants. From the ‘infants’ school, children had to go to Butlers Hill or Spring Street ‘juniors’; then back to the ‘secondary’ girls or boys. In the 1950s this building was Beardall Street Girls. The school finally closed in 2014 and is currently being used as a private nursery.

[ http://www.htrg.co.uk/beardall-street-school ]
[ https://www.hucknalldispatch.co.uk/news/demolished-school-memories-2305736 ]

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