Bessie Bradock is one of the school’s most famous alumni.

From 1944 there was also a girls’ Secondary Modern on Anfield Rd in a building called Woodlands - the old site of the Queen Mary School (above). The first Headteacher was Grace ASHTON. Girls from Anfield Rd would have transferred here.

Originally known as Walton-on-the-Hill Board School - up until the first part of the 20th century. I’m not sure when the name was changed.

This school is famous for its Bell Tower - inevitably believed to be haunted. Originally listed as a single school, it is currently separate infant and junior schools located within the same building. The photograph on the left was taken in 1972, and the one below in 2006. Inside there have been lots of changes, but outside - apart from the cars - very little has changed!

The school was evacuated to the Ysgol Llangynfelyn ('Taliesin School') during the second world war, most of the children living in the main villages of Tre-Taliesin and Tre'r-ddôl. There were also Anfield Road children at Ysgol Tal-y-bont, a little over a mile further south on the Aberystwyth-Machynlleth road. Stephen Benham and the team who run the Llangynfelyn website have transcribed the records that were kept at the school. Anfield Rd still has its own records of this period. The record from Wales makes fascinating reading.