A - C

School	Address	Built	Notes
Abbot's Lea	Beaconsfield Rd, Woolton	?	Special School
Abbotsford Rd Secondary Modern	Abbotsford Rd	1930	Became the Lower School site of Ellergreen Comprehensive in 1948; changed its name to Carr Lane Comprehensive until it closed in 1986. Used by Wellesbourne School until their new building became available.
Abercromby Nursery	Falkner St	1972	Board School. Looks like a 1970s building.
Addison St Industrial	Addison St	1891	Board School. Industrial School; entrance in Alexander Pope St next to the Brittania. About 300 mixed pupils. Closed in 1935.
Aigburth CE School	Aigburth	1907	Gores 1911 lists it as built in 1907. but the LRO has the minute book for June 1876 - July 1885. May be linked with St Anne's, St Margaret’s Boys’ High School, or Arundel Comprehensive
Aigburth Vale High School	Aigburth Vale	1909	Board School. Closed 1985, when it amalgamated with Quarry Bank to form Calderstones. The building was used until its demolition.
Aintree Davenhill	Aintree Lane	1956	Recently celebrated its Golden Jubilee.
Aintree Hospital School
Aintree School	Aintree Village		On 1850 maps, there is a school marked near the junction of Aintree Lane, Wango Lane and Bull Bridge Lane. Listed under Lancashire County Council in 1911 - average attendance under 100. Not sure what the relationship was with the school in Melling Rd, which was not far away at all.
Aintree	Melling Rd	1848	It was close to the Blue Anchor Inn. It was still there in 1907 by the Blue Anchor, although listed as Melling Rd. Schoolmaster - Richard RIMMER. This section of road is now called School Lane. Not sure how close this is to the site of Aintree Davenhill. Listed under Liverpool City Council in 1911. On roll at that time were almost 40 boys, 40 girls and 115 senior pupils.
Akbar Reformatory Ship	Rock Ferry, Wirral	1856	Board School. Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory Association. A retired Navy ship - the Akbar - catered for 200 boys. It became Heswall Nautical School in about 1905 and moved onto dry land! Eventually it was renamed the Akbar Nautical Approved School
Alderwood	Alderwood Avenue, Speke	1953	Board School. Closed about 2002 when it amalgamated with Millwood to form Middlefield.
Alexander Pope St Day Industrial	Alexander Pope St	?	Board School. Same as Addison St?
Alice Elliot School for the Deaf	Childwall Lane	?	Board School. Now called Ashfield School. Alice Elliot herself used to live by us in Childwall Rd. The school looks like a 1960s / 1970s building.
All Hallows Catholic Secondary	Alderwood Rd, Speke	1959	My uncle, Bill Naylor, taught here in the 1970s. Closed in 1983 in the Catholic Reorganisation when the Girls’ and Boys’ schools amalgamated to form Pope John Paul School. Head of the Boys’ School, joined the staff of the new school. Girls’ Head, Ms P MULLEN, went to work for another Authority.
All Saints' Catholic	Oakfield (Infants); Townsend Lane (Juniors, Secondary)	1889	Originally a building which could accommodate the school children on the ground floor with the church on the floor above. Infants and Juniors recently amalgamated..
All Saints' CE	Great Nelson St	1852	Listed as separate infants' and junior school in Slater's Directory in 1859; about 400 mixed Juniors and Infants. Still listed in 1911.
All Saints’ CE	Speke	1887	The Church was consecrated in 1876. The school is marked next to the church on the map of 1904. It was part of the Speke Hall estate. There is some fascinating information on this web-page. The school closed in 1940, when the children moved to Stocktonwood!
All Souls Catholic	Collingwood St	1876	Originally run by the Sisters of Notre Dame; master was James McCLUSKEY in the mid 19th Century. Marked on 1906 map. About 600 children attended daily in 1911.
All Souls' National	Eaton St, Vauxhall	1857	1900 - about 300 pupils of junior age. LRO holds plans of building. Marked on 1906 map.
Allenby Square Nursery		1946	Closed in 2003; staff and pupils transferred to St Cuthbert’s.
Allerton Primary School	Booker's Cottages, Greenhill Rd, Allerton	1860	Founded by Margaret BOOKER, daughter of Josiah. This philanthropic family owned much land locally, and had business interests overseas. They developed many local businesses and also built St Anne’s Church in Aigburth. In 1911, the schoolmistress was Miss M MACKIE. and the average attendance was under 50! Listed under Lancashire County Council, not Liverpool. The school was demolished in the late 1930s and replaced by Booker Avenue schools.
Alsop High School	Queens Drive, Walton	1926	The Upper School was built 1926, the lower school 1956. Both were called Walton until they were renamed in the late 1990s. More photos on Brian Griffiths’ site. You can also find memories on the Alsopian site. Gerard Houlier once taught here.
Anfield Comprehensive	Priory Road	1964	At one time known as Stanley Rd Secondary Modern School. George tells me there was some rivalry with Anfield Rd School, just up Arkles Lane! Now known as North Liverpool Academy.
Anfield Rd	Anfield Rd, Anfield	1885	Board School. 1900 - average attendance over 1 200. Listed as Walton-on-the-Hill Council Schools in 1911. Famous former pupil: Bessie Braddock, who left at the age of 15 in 1914.
Archbishop Blanch CE	Mount Vernon Rd	?	On the site of the former Liverpool Girls' Reformatory I think. Originally, based in Toxteth near Bellerive. Moved to to the old Paddington site in the mid 1990s.
Archbishop Whiteside RC		1963	Renamed St Brigid’s High School. Closed 1993.
Arnot St	Arnot St, Walton	1885	Built by Walton School Board, and transferred to Liverpool School Board in 1896. Gwladys St originally was connected with this school, according to the 1903 manual..
Arundel (Greenbank) Comprehensive Arundel (Sefton Park) Comprehensive		1907 1984	The Greenbank wing was used by Mabel Fletcher College; closed 1980s Building used by Archbishop Blanch until 1993. Closed in 1980 due to falling rolls. The Acting Head, Mrs LITTLE, went to Paddington Comprehensive, as did most of the pupils. Arundel was formed in 1966 from the closure of several other schools, including Princes Park Secondary Modern.
Ashfield St	Ashfield St	1875	Board School. 1900 - average attendance over 782. This certificate was awarded in 1909.
Aspen Grove	Aspen Grove, Lodge Lane, Toxteth	1883	Originally Church of England, became a Board school later on. The Liverpool Record office holds log books from 1883, so assuming this as a time of opening. No 87 at the end of the road; described as Higher Grade schools in 1911. This 1911 report for Howard LYTHAM is signed by Headteacher Oscar BREWER. Tony’s mother attended in the 1920s, when the Headteacher was J WALNE
Balfour Institute	Balfour Institute	?	Board School.
Balm St	Balm Street	?	Temporary Board School - in connection with Butler St
Bank View	Sherwoods Lane, Fazakerley	2006	A special school, formed from the amalgamation of Mersey View and Meadow Bank schools. John LUXTON tells me that Meadow Bank originally opened about 1964 as a girls’ special school. Boys were admitted from the early 1970s. The school has a very good website.
Bankfield Girls’ School	Bankfield	1956	Board School. Closed in 1975 when it amalgamated with Holly Lodge High to form Holly Lodge Comprehensive. The Head at the time was Mrs BRIDGE. The building is currently used by Lister Drive Infants.
Bankhall Institute	Stanley Rd, Kirkdale	1876	Listed in Kelly's 1894 Directory; in the 1911 Directory, the date is given as 1895, so perhaps this was a new building. At one point linked with Daisy St.
Banks Rd	Banks Rd Garston	1904	Board School. In 1906, separate to St Michael's (Garston) National School. Holy Trinity had not been built at that point. Listed as Elijah Terrace, Banks Rd in 1911. Photo from Liverpool City Council archive
Barlows	Barlows Lane Walton	1912	Junior Mixed originally housed in temporary buildings; the Infants’ Department was built in 1924. This class photo is dated 1957 - thanks to Dave Long. The teacher in the picture is Miss CLIMO who later became Head of St Anne’s Stanley. New buildings dated 2003.
Bartimaeus	Bute St	?	Run by Liverpool Council; closed some years ago
Beach Rd	Beach Rd, Litherland	.	Corner with Tattersall Rd. Listed in 1911. Good photo on website. http://www.litherlandtown.co.uk/a_frameset.html
Beaufort Park	Rhyll St, Dingle	2000	Formed from the amalgamation of Beaufort St and Parkhill Rd schools. A beautiful new building.
Beaufort St	Beaufort St, Toxteth Park	1874	Board School. Average attendance 1894 - 322 boys 312 senior girls 209 junior mixed 431 infants
Bedford College for Young Ladies	Bedford St South	.	No 92 & 94, Miss Ellen RYE, principal in 1911
Bedford Rd	Bedford Rd Bootle	1885	Board School listed in Kelly's 1894 Directory. John Austin MILES, schoolmaster in 1911. Currently located on Quarry Rd, near Balliol Rd / Breeze Hill. The school has a current website.
Bedford St Ragged School (Industrial)	Bedford St North	?	Board School listed in Slater’s 1859 Directory
Beech St	Beech St, Kensington	.	Girls' School run by Miss Pool in 1911
Beechenhurst	Menlove Avenue	1915	Founded by Miss Mary Blake; moved to its current site on the corner of Menlove Avenue and Crompton's Lane in the early 1920s. Due to close July 2008; Carleton House may move into the building.
Belle Vale	Besford Rd	1952	Built just after Joseph Williams County Primary; most accommodation in the area was prefabricated. The school still stands, but the houses have been replaced.
Bellerive Catholic	Windermere Terrace	1844	Convent: FCJ. Amalgamated with St Anne’s Girls’, St Margaret Clitherow, St Martin’s Girls and St Winefride’s in 1983 to form St Mary’s High School. This school is now renamed Bellerive.
Belvedere	Belvidere Rd, Toxteth	1880	Girls’ School. Recognised 1905.
Beresford Rd Ragged School	Beresford Rd, Toxteth Park	1864	Board School run by Toxteth Chapel. Not sure if this is linked to St Cleopas.
Birchfield Rd	Birchfield Rd	1903	Board School. Temporary in 1900 eventually became a full primary school. Corner with Alford Rd. Caretaker in 1911 was James ECCLESTON. Closed in about 2002. The new school on the site is called Phoenix
Bishop Goss Catholic	Cazneau St, Rose Place	1876	Built as St Joseph’s to accommodate over 1,300 children; marked on 1906 map. Building was renewed in 1912 and 1949. My mother Pauline ROBERTS (nee NAYLOR) taught here in the 1980s. Before it amalgamated with Holy Cross in Fontenoy St in 1997. LRO holds plans
Bishop Martin	Woolton	1974	See St Peter’s, Woolton
Bishop O'Reilly's Catholic	Honeysgreen Lane, West Derby	1884	About 150 children attended regularly in 1900. Not listed in the 1911 Directory. Renamed Cardinal Allen, and more recently Cardinal Heenan.
Blackmoor Park	Leyfield Rd, West Derby	1938	Board School. Separate Infant and Junior schools; the Infants’ Building is dated 1955.
Blackburne House	Hope St	1844	See Liverpool Institute Girls’ School
Blessed Sacrament Catholic	Park Vale Rd, Walton	1880	Possibly on the site of the old Ragged Industrial school. The foundation stone of the school was laid in September 1880 and the building was opened on 9 August 1881. The building has been demolished apart from the section in the photo (link left), which used to hold classrooms and the dining hall, and is now the Parish Centre. There are now separate schools - for infants in Hunslet Rd and for juniors in Cedar Rd.
Blind School	Hardman St	?	Listed in Slater’s 1859 Directory
Blue Coat School	School Lane, Paradise St; Church Rd, Wavertree	1709	The school has its own history page. Originally built by Brian Blundell in Liverpool City Centre, the school moved to Wavertree in 1905, but the Bell Tower - a famous local landmark - was not completed until 1915.
Blueberry Park	Ackers Hall Avenue	2002	Formed from the amalgamation of Colwell and Maidford Schools
Boaler St	Boaler St	1902	Temporary - in connection with Butler St. Over 1,000 children attending in 1911. Eventually became Newsham School - amalgamated with Butler St to form New Park in the early 2000s
Bond St Mixed Day Industrial School	Bond Street	1878	Opened in April 1878, on the corner with Titchfield St. Viewed as a school for Catholic children because it was originally based at St Alban's. In 1903 the intake was fixed at 300. Superintendent - Miss Mary Mallorie. Marked on the 1906 map. Closed in 1912.
Booker Avenue	Booker Avenue, Allerton	1936	Separate Infants' and Junior Schools, built to replace Allerton Primary School which was located in Booker's Cottages. This was built and maintained by Margaret, daughter of Josiah BOOKER who, with his brother, founded the company that initially sponsored the Booker Prize. This school was demolished in the late 1930s; the lane was renamed and the new schools built close by.
Bootle High	Browns Lane, Netherton	.	Originally Bootle Grammar, based on Balliol Rd
Bootle Technical School	Balliol Rd, Bootle	1900	Next to the Public Baths. Listed in 1911.
Boys' Catholic Orphanage Industrial School	Beacon Lane, Everton	1868	Run by the Sisters of Charity, for boys from 4 - 14 years old. May be linked with St George’s in Everton Crescent. Linked with the Nugent Society. Later became St Vincent's and subsequently an Approved School (from 1933)
Boys' Refuge Industrial School for Catholic Boys	Soho St	1848	Founded as a Ragged School by the Christian Brothers in about 1848 and certified in 1861 and 1868 (for 150 boys). The boys were transferred to St Anne St (a former judge's lodgings) in May 1869.
Boys' Refuge Industrial School for Catholic Boys	St Anne's St	1869	The boys were transferred from Soho St to St Anne St (a former judge's lodgings) in May 1869. In 1900 the Superintendent was Henry Pidgeon. Closed in 1922.
Brae St	Brae St, Kensington	1888	1,500 children attending in 1911. Later renamed Edge Hill, and amalgamated with Clint Rd to form Kensington Primary. The old school was recently demolished. The new building opened in 2003 or thereabouts, housing both Infant and Junior schools.
Broad Square Primary	Broad Square, Norris Green	1928	More photos on the Norris Green website. Recently replaced by a new building (opened 2002).
Breckfield Secondary School	Venice St (until 1974), Hamilton Road, Loraine Rd	?	The Secondary Modern in Venice St closed in 1974, the building becoming Breckfield Primary School. Children went to John Hamilton Comprehensive which was later renamed Breckfield. Amalgamated with Collegiate Comprehensive (Boys) to form Breckfield Comprehensive (Mixed) in 1985. The new Head, Mr I HALL had been Head at Breckfield before the amalgamation. For Primary School, see: Venice St / Granton Rd.
Broadgreen	Mill Lane (Infants) Oakhill Rd (Juniors) Queen’s Drive (High)	1940 1954	Listed from at least the turn of the century. In 1911, listed as Broad Green, on Broadgreen Road at the corner with Oakhill Road, next to Lotus Laundry. The current buildings are dated 1940 (Infants) and 1954 (Juniors). Single sited since 1993. The old Infants’ Building in Mill Lane was used for Finchlea Special School, and subsequently Central PRU.
Bronte St Welsh Charity School	Bronte St	.	Listed as separate Infant and Junior Schools in 1859. St Simon's may have been built on this site later. There was another Welsh Charity School at Russell St. Not listed in 1911.
Broughton Hall Catholic	Yew Tree Lane, West Derby	1983	Formed from the amalgamation of the Convent of Mercy, St Agnes and St Margaret Mary’s Girls’. There was also a preparatory school here at one time. The first Head was Sister Mary Agnes MAHER.
Brunswick	Erskine St	1790	Wesleyan School. Liverpool Record Office holds records for 1877 - 1914. Nearly 500 pupils in 1911.
Butler St	Butler St	1875	1911 - in connection with Boaler St, between Boaler St and Penton St. Amalgamated with Newsham Primary in the early 2000s to become New Park.
Calder High School	Calderstones Rd	1921	Amalgamated with Quarry Bank High and Morrison Secondary to form Quarry Bank in the late 1950s; subsequently renamed Calderstones Comprehensive
Caledonian Free School	Oldham St	1812	Erected for the education of children of Scottish parentage; supported by subscriptions and donations. In 1827, attended by 160 boys and 90 girls. Listed in 1859. The school was eventually taken over by the School Board in the early 1900s and closed in 1923.
Campion High Catholic	Salisbury St, Everton Prince Edwin St, Everton	1870	Once called a 'Bilateral' school. Geographically close to SFX on Shaw St - probably took children from there when the school relocated to Woolton. A guess - someone will know the real answer! Marked on the 1906 map. Amalgamated with English Martyrs and St Pious X in 1983 to form Campion Comprehensive; the head, Mr KENNEDY, retired. Children transferred from Salisbury St to Prince Edwin St in 1981.
Canon Kennedy Catholic	Edge Lane	?	This school was part of Sacred Heart parish, traditionally serving the ‘roads’ (north of Hall Lane) rather then the ‘streets’ on the town side. Rita says this was the posh part of the parish.
Cantril Farm JM & Infants	Mab Lane		Renamed ‘Mab Lane County Primary’ in 1976, to avoid confusion with a Knowsley school. See entries for ‘Mab Lane’.
Cardinal Allen Catholic	Honeysgreen Lane, West Derby	1958	Located in the old Bishop O’Reilly buildings. Amalgamated with St Margaret Mary’s Boys’ in 1983 to form Cardinal Heenan. The last Head of Cardinal Allen and the first head of Cardinal Heenan was Rev. CHEETHAM.
Cardinal Godfrey Catholic	Breck Rd	1925	Records suggest the building dated from 1710 - it was St Elizabeth’s before becoming Cardinal Godfrey. My uncle - Bill Naylor - used to teach here, but I can’t remember very much about it at all. Head in the 1960s was Brother (Pop) MORAN, a diminutive but terrifying Scot. Alumni Ken ROBERTS and Mike CARDEN testify to his powerful personality and his cane swinging. They think he was at least 70 at that time! When my brother attended in the 1970s and early 1980s, Brother CAREY was Head. Closed in 1983 when it amalgamated with other schools to form Nugent High School, Brother CAREY became head of Nugent.
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School	Honeysgreen Lane, West Derby	?	The school previously known as Cardinal Allen
Cardinal Newman Boys’ Catholic	Queens Drive, Childwall	1962	In Reorganisation (1983) became the lower school for SFX; now demolished.
Carleton House	Mossley Hill	1975	Catholic Preparatory School
Carr Lane County Comprehensive	Carr Lane (Upper School); Abbotsford Rd (Lower School)		Amalgamated with Queen Mary Girls’ in 1985 to form Clubmoor County Comprehensive. The Head, R L W MANDER, became Head of the new school.
Catholic Female Orphanage	Falkner St	1868	Sisters of Notre Dame. Certified for 50 girls originally later for 100. Closed 1906
Catholic High School & Kindergarten	Alexandra Rd, Waterloo	.	Schoolmistress - Josephine ORMANDY
Catholic Institute	Hope St, St Domingo Rd Everton	1853	Founded by Father James Nugent; moved to this site of St Edward’s College which was an boarding school in St Domingo Rd in 1920; changed its name to St Edward’s at the same time. Moved to the current premises in Sandfield Park, West Derby, in 1938.
Chatham Place Nursery	Chatham Place Edge Hill	1946	A school has stood in this position for many years!
Chatsworth St	Chatsworth St Edge Hill	1873	Over 1,200 average attendance in the 1890s. In 1911, Next to Liverpool Savings Bank; next to Corporation of Liverpool Evening Reading Room. Closed when it amalgamated with Earle Rd in the 1990s; now Smithdown Primary.
Childwall CE	Woolton Rd, Childwall	1952	This