Wheatley Street School

This 1983 view from White Street shows the former Goodwin Foster Brown flour mills on the left and Wheatley Street School on the right, with an area of temporary car parking in the foreground. These buildings were completely cleared away shortly afterwards for the construction of Coventry's new bus garage. TBH I cannot recall the buildings really even though I must've wandered past them on my way up to Highfield Road.

I attended Wheatley Street School (Nursery and Primary) from about 1947 until about 1951. I can't remember the names of any of the teachers but do remember well, like you, the smell of the building, the daily dose of cod liver oil and the camp beds for the daily rest in the nursery. We lived around the corner in Priory Street and I spent many happy hours fishing for sticklebacks in Swanswell Park and playing on the many bomb sites. Happy days.

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Heres an interesting view - Mods feel free to move to any more suitable thread but a pre-ring-road image from St Michaels showing the soon to be demolished Ford Street with buildings including the Flour Mills and Wheatley school.

That school looks like a great building. Are there any more photographs of it?

Good morning Flapdoodle, there are several lovely pictures of the school earlier in this thread.

Wheatley St School is where my dad and aunt were educated (?) after Stoke National. Dad left aged 13. It is also where I had to go from Folly Lane to sit the eleven plus examination!

Thanks to Tony Lay on the Cov memories from the 60's FB page - Chambers & Royal Warwicks Club, Wheatley Street.

Don't think we've seen this one before as it’s unusually at the eastern end of Wheatley Street. The junction with Perkins Street on the right. The photographer has their back to the junction with Vine Street. I think the factory on the left was part of an old chemical works which has been mentioned on this thread before.

Wheatley Street School on the left. Taken by Richard Sadler, early 1950s.

Wheatley Street School seems to have been around for "donkeys` years". Don`t know when it was built but my mother, born in 1917, went to Wheatley Street after she left St Marks School on Stoney Stanton Road. The school playground wall was also her garden wall when she lived at 22 George Street.

Looking through the newspaper, it was built about 1891.

Some images of the school from pre-demolition clippings have surfaced on FB.