Hi Cathy, I'm afraid I cannot remember what that side of the street was like before it was redeveloped in the late 50s / early 60s, although I remember the Abbey Buildings tenements opposite. Southwark Local studies library might have photos. Regards John (A Bermondsey boy in Catford) ----- Original Message ----- From: "cemoor" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [SRY] Bermondsey Schools 1920's | Hi Jan and John, | | Thank you for your input Jan but I believe that Eleanor at least and | probably both left school at age 12, so I doubt they would have attended | a secondary school. | | John your help was truly appreciated as I had no idea where number 13 in | Abbey Street would have been in situated, so you've really set me on the | right track, turned me right around in fact. Unfortunately although I | have a copy of "An Index of London Schools and their Records" by Cliff | Webb, as he previously mentioned, now knowing of Riley Street School I | was able to look it up but found that only Admission and Discharge | records from 1934-1939 (Junior Girls) are available at the LMA, so | unluckily for me Eleanor would have turned 12 in about 1930 and Gwyneth | probably in 1932 so I miss out there. | | John can you tell me if that end of Abbey Street was mostly shops or | private housing. Their mother ran a small cafe at number 13, and they | lived there also, their father was a chimney sweep. | | Thank you anyway, | Cathy in South Australia | | From: "Jan Harris" <[email protected]> | | Hi this might help ,my mother went to Bermondsey Central School which was in | > Monnow Road. | > Regards | > Jan | > | > | > From: "John Moore"<[email protected]> | > Subject: Re: [SRY] Bermondsey Schools 1920's | > | > Hi Cathy, | > The numbering in Abbey Street started at the Bermondsey Street end. | > Number 13 was on the north side of the road between Tower Bridge Road and Riley Street (now Riley Road). | > The school you saw from the railway viaduct would have been Riley Road School. | > The older building you describe has been demolished within the last ten years and an appartment block built on the site. Other | > school buildings remain, and have probably been converted to other uses. | > | > Post WW2 Riley road was a Boys only secondary school. | > | > Regards, | > John | | Original message: | > I have ancestors, two girls Eleanor& Gwyneth PRICE who were living at | > 13 Abbey Street, Bermondsey, SE1 around 1925 or so, does anyone know the | > closest school they may have attended. I suspect that number 13 was at | > the Jamaica Road end of the street, with St Mary Magdalen their parish | > church. I know that their school was close to the railway viaduct | > because I remember my mother pointing the school out to me when we | > passed on the train sometime in the early 1950's, it was a tall brick | > building with a flat roof surrounded by fencing that may have been used | > for sports or something. Can anyone help. | > | > Regards, | > Cathy in South Australia | > | > | *************************************** | Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. | | List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] | | | ------------------------------- | 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