'The Builder' magazine: Plan of Alma Road Girls School

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2005.5811

Page from 'The Builder' magazine showing the floor plan of Alma Road girls school. Drawn by John and S Flint Clarkson, Architects, printed by Wyman and Sons, Printers, Great Queen Street, published by Whiteman & Bass Photo-Litho, 236, High Holborn. The Alma Road girls and infants school was built in 1882, and enlarged 1890. The board schools in St Albans were all built around the end of the nineteenth century following two acts of parliament in 1870 and 1876 which established the prinicples of universal compulsory education for all children until the age of 12. They also included Bernard's Heath School, Hatfield Road School, Camp School and Garden Fields School on Catherine Street (now the Jubilee Centre).

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Amy Cooke

4) Verulamium Archive Room

Alma Road School, Alma Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD box 40 (red).

13/09/2006