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Mrs. Marjorie Palmer [nee Partridge] pupil 1917 - 1926         I was born in 1912 and started school in 1917. First of all I was in the Infants' Department that was in the centre of the school. I remember there were three Miss Wheelwrights, all sisters, teaching in the school. Later I moved into the Girls' Department where Miss Pearman was the Headmistress. Towards the end of my school Miss Sharp replaced her. I can also remember the Boys' Master Mr. Sutton and later Mr. Cook who was the Mayor. I remember learning reading, writing, and arithmetic and there were lots of religious instruction and Bible classes. Miss Agatha Downing regularly came in the school. There were no school uniforms and no school dinners. The present school site, in Field lane, was still just a field. I remember school treats that consisted of a picnic and sports in the afternoon. I left school when I was 14, in 1926. I went to the Imperial Commercial College School in Stourbridge to learn office work and I started work on 14th March 1928 at a firm of Tailors and Drapers in Red Hill called Scott's. I worked until I was 74 years old. Both my father and my son Brian Palmer also went to the school in Craufurd Street. Brian started in 1946. The Headmaster was Mr. Round. I thought he was marvellous. He wrote on my son's report 'Aim high, Brian, and you'll get there'. Brian went to the King Edward VI Grammar School. He also received the Agatha Downing Memorial Prize which was a beautiful Bible.

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