Hi All >From what I was told there was a pub called the Tabinock? not sure of the correct name right at the top end of Oldbury it was knocked down when Savercenter was built and I believe the school had the same name , but I am going on what someone told me so I cant be 100% sure Cheers Cassy Assistant Admin Black Country Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "cassy" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [Black Country] Oldbury senior schools > On 07 Jul, cassy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All Not sure if I have asked this question before , but during the >> war years my grandmother went to live with her sister in Law at Stone >> Street Oldbury and my father went to the local senior school but not >> sure which one I know that one school was Albrights , but I have been >> told recently that at the top of Oldbury where Savercenter is, there >> was a school there right by the old Oldbury Town Hall ,can anyone >> confirm this or tell me if it was a senior school Cheers Cassy >> Assistant Admin Black Country >> Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists > > Well the old Oldbury Technical School was on Flash Road before it > relocated > to Pound Road, but Flash Road wasn't by the Town Hall. There was also St > Michaels in Oldbury. Have you looked on Friends Reunited? You can search > for Albrights School, and on the right hand side of the page is a map with > the local schools marked on it. > > Hope this helps > > -- > Chris Pampling > > researching: > > > > BARRATT, DANCER, FELLOWS, GOODES, HOLDING, ROBINSON, TUCKLEY, WHEWAY, > MAHER > > all in and around Birmingham/Smethwick, 1850 to present day > > PAMPLING Cambridgeshire - Sheffield, 1800 to present > > VARNDELL Wokingham - Birmingham, 1800 to present > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.7/2222 - Release Date: 07/07/09 05:53:00

Cassy: I think you're thinking of the Tabernacle Schools, which were linked to the Methodist New Connexion chapel of the same name. Paul PS: My mother's family of Beresfords lived in Stone Street too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "cassy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [Black Country] Oldbury senior schools > Hi All >>From what I was told there was a pub called the Tabinock? > not sure of the correct name right at the top end of Oldbury > it was knocked down when Savercenter was built and I believe > the school had the same name , but I am going on what someone told me > so I cant be 100% sure > Cheers > Cassy > Assistant Admin Black Country > Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: "cassy" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Black Country] Oldbury senior schools > > >> On 07 Jul, cassy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi All Not sure if I have asked this question before , but during the >>> war years my grandmother went to live with her sister in Law at Stone >>> Street Oldbury and my father went to the local senior school but not >>> sure which one I know that one school was Albrights , but I have been >>> told recently that at the top of Oldbury where Savercenter is, there >>> was a school there right by the old Oldbury Town Hall ,can anyone >>> confirm this or tell me if it was a senior school Cheers Cassy >>> Assistant Admin Black Country >>> Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists >> >> Well the old Oldbury Technical School was on Flash Road before it >> relocated >> to Pound Road, but Flash Road wasn't by the Town Hall. There was also St >> Michaels in Oldbury. Have you looked on Friends Reunited? You can search >> for Albrights School, and on the right hand side of the page is a map >> with >> the local schools marked on it. >> >> Hope this helps >> >> -- >> Chris Pampling >> >> researching: >> >> >> >> BARRATT, DANCER, FELLOWS, GOODES, HOLDING, ROBINSON, TUCKLEY, WHEWAY, >> MAHER >> >> all in and around Birmingham/Smethwick, 1850 to present day >> >> PAMPLING Cambridgeshire - Sheffield, 1800 to present >> >> VARNDELL Wokingham - Birmingham, 1800 to present >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.7/2222 - Release Date: 07/07/09 > 05:53:00 > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run > by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Paul That's the one I was told about , but do you know if it was a senior school ? If not my dad must of gone to Albrights My Whitehouse and Franklin families at one time or another all lived at Stone Street before the 1900s , plus my granddads sister later on , I know they lived there from 1938 ,has that's when my granddad was given a fortnight to put his affairs in order and report to his base at Hendon I would love to know which of my granddads sisters my dad stayed at , but he had that many some of there married names where Thompson, Hadley , Bradley , Bowen, to name a few Has anyone on the list got any old pictures of Stone Street , before they built the houses that are there now , properly built around the 1920s from the pictures I have seen of them , I an also after very old pictures of Park Lane, and Canal Side also Nelson Street, all my Oldbury family lived in there streets but I cant seem to find any old pictures , I have managed to get one of Frazer Street from the archives taken just before it was pulled down in 1965 but that's all Cheers Cassy Assistant Admin Black Country Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "cassy" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [Black Country] Oldbury senior schools > Cassy: > > I think you're thinking of the Tabernacle Schools, which were linked to > the > Methodist New Connexion chapel of the same name. > > Paul > > PS: My mother's family of Beresfords lived in Stone Street too. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "cassy" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:56 PM > Subject: Re: [Black Country] Oldbury senior schools > > >> Hi All >>>From what I was told there was a pub called the Tabinock? >> not sure of the correct name right at the top end of Oldbury >> it was knocked down when Savercenter was built and I believe >> the school had the same name , but I am going on what someone told me >> so I cant be 100% sure >> Cheers >> Cassy >> Assistant Admin Black Country >> Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: "cassy" <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:06 PM >> Subject: Re: [Black Country] Oldbury senior schools >> >> >>> On 07 Jul, cassy <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi All Not sure if I have asked this question before , but during the >>>> war years my grandmother went to live with her sister in Law at Stone >>>> Street Oldbury and my father went to the local senior school but not >>>> sure which one I know that one school was Albrights , but I have been >>>> told recently that at the top of Oldbury where Savercenter is, there >>>> was a school there right by the old Oldbury Town Hall ,can anyone >>>> confirm this or tell me if it was a senior school Cheers Cassy >>>> Assistant Admin Black Country >>>> Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists >>> >>> Well the old Oldbury Technical School was on Flash Road before it >>> relocated >>> to Pound Road, but Flash Road wasn't by the Town Hall. There was also St >>> Michaels in Oldbury. Have you looked on Friends Reunited? You can search >>> for Albrights School, and on the right hand side of the page is a map >>> with >>> the local schools marked on it. >>> >>> Hope this helps >>> >>> -- >>> Chris Pampling >>> >>> researching: >>> >>> >>> >>> BARRATT, DANCER, FELLOWS, GOODES, HOLDING, ROBINSON, TUCKLEY, WHEWAY, >>> MAHER >>> >>> all in and around Birmingham/Smethwick, 1850 to present day >>> >>> PAMPLING Cambridgeshire - Sheffield, 1800 to present >>> >>> VARNDELL Wokingham - Birmingham, 1800 to present >>> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.7/2222 - Release Date: 07/07/09 >> 05:53:00 >> ------------------------------------- >> The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. >> Run >> by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.7/2222 - Release Date: 07/07/09 05:53:00