Now, I only attended three schools and then worked at one other during forty-five five years and in all that time just one changed its name.
So I am always fascinated by schools that have had multiple name changes and have adapted to different educational needs.
And one of these was City Road School in Hulme.
It “opened on August 15, 1910 with boys from the recently closed St. Stephen's School, Hulme, Lloyd Street Infants Department and St. Mark's School, Hulme.
Girls were transferred from Duke Street School.
The Infants Department closed for admissions and the school became City Road Senior School on August 26th 1935.
From the 1920s until the 1950s there were two Handicraft Centres on the site.
The school was renamed North Hulme Secondary School 23rd July 1953.
On December 19th 1962 the girls were transferred to South Hulme Secondary School for Girls and on January 7th 1963, the school re-opened as North Hulme Secondary School for Boys, also taking boys from South Hulme Secondary School. It closed July 20 1967 and all the boys were transferred to the new South Hulme High School”.*
I know that back in 1911Mr H Salt was the master, Miss E Fairbrother, the mistress, and Miss M Thornton was the infant’s mistress.
And that is as they say all I do know.
Andy, who took the picture, commented "that as a school building it is nothing special apart from the fact it is in Hulme. It is now flats and I am not sure what it was called.
It was on the corner of City Road, and Bradshaw Street and once our two friends get their caps they might well pay a visit”.
Now that is a challenge I can’t resist and I have to disagree with his about the building. I have always thought there was something very special about the municipal schools and the Board schools that predated them.
They were built, and have stood the test of time, being warm in winter and cool in summer.
Location; Hulme
Pictures; City School, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Manchester Schools, Manchester Central Library
And one of these was City Road School in Hulme.
It “opened on August 15, 1910 with boys from the recently closed St. Stephen's School, Hulme, Lloyd Street Infants Department and St. Mark's School, Hulme.
Girls were transferred from Duke Street School.
From the 1920s until the 1950s there were two Handicraft Centres on the site.
The school was renamed North Hulme Secondary School 23rd July 1953.
On December 19th 1962 the girls were transferred to South Hulme Secondary School for Girls and on January 7th 1963, the school re-opened as North Hulme Secondary School for Boys, also taking boys from South Hulme Secondary School. It closed July 20 1967 and all the boys were transferred to the new South Hulme High School”.*
And that is as they say all I do know.
Andy, who took the picture, commented "that as a school building it is nothing special apart from the fact it is in Hulme. It is now flats and I am not sure what it was called.
It was on the corner of City Road, and Bradshaw Street and once our two friends get their caps they might well pay a visit”.
Now that is a challenge I can’t resist and I have to disagree with his about the building. I have always thought there was something very special about the municipal schools and the Board schools that predated them.
They were built, and have stood the test of time, being warm in winter and cool in summer.
Location; Hulme
Pictures; City School, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Manchester Schools, Manchester Central Library
I went there from Sept 1955 to July 1959 when it's full name was "North Hulme Secondary Modern School".
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