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From: "Chris Vanhal" <>
Subject: Gem Street Industrial School
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:13:14 -0400


First let me thank all the list members again for their wonderful input on this subject. Below is the reply sent to me by the Birmingham archives. I hope it may help anyone else on the list who has an interest.

Cris Van Hal: Ontario, Canada



St. Philip's Ragged School was opened in 1846 by the rector of St. Philip's, the
Rev. Grantham Munton Yorke. It was initially housed in a hired workshop at no.
19 Lichfield Street, Birmingham. The school provided training for boys and
girls in mending and making clothes and shoes, as well as ordinary teaching. It
was later called St. Philip's Free Industrial School. In 1850, the school was
moved to a new building in Gem Street and renamed Birmingham Free Industrial
School. At this date, it provided accommodation in three departments: a day
school for boys and girls over 7: industrial classes for boys and girls over 7:
an asylum for orphans and deserted children. The school was placed under the
Industrial School Act in 1868.

IN 1902-3 the premises were sold to Birmingham School Board. New school
buildings opened in Balden Road, Harborne and the school became known as
Harborne Industrial School. It was renamed as Ansell School in 1925 and became
Junior Approved School in 1933. It was renamed Tennal School in 1938 and
finally closed in 1984.

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