Notes taken from the excellent booklet by Harry BAKER and Gerry McBRIDE
The original school building was in St Mary’s Street, in Woolton Village, next to the church. It was opened in 1869 by Father John Placid O’BRIEN. The children brought in pennies to pay for their schooling; parents also supplied slates and books.
Left - from Mount Street
Below - from St Mary’s Street
Infant Mixed Department
Junior Mixed Department
1869-1872
The school operated as Junior Boys, with separate Girls & Infants
1872-1887
Miss M TURNER
1872-1879
Miss Matilda CURRAN
1887-1889
Miss E DALEY
1879-1882
Miss A DOYLE(assisted by Miss O’HALLERAN)
1889-1891
Miss W MORRISON
1882-1894
Miss Ellen WATKINSON, Miss S RATCHFORD
1891-1893
Miss MacMAHON, Miss SHORT
1894-1914
Miss CRAWFORD
1894-1900
Miss Margaret BUXTON
1900-1908
Miss WHELAN, Miss M MARSH
1908-1938
Miss E CONWAY
1914-1926
Mr Joseph COGGIN assisted by Miss E COFFEY, Miss N HANRAHAN, Miss M LOFTUS, Miss M McMULLAN, Miss A WEST
1938-1944
Mrs COGGIN
1926-1956
Mr A CUNNINGHAM
1944-1956
Miss M SHORTALL
Much Woolton Junior & Infant Mixed
1956-1970
Miss M SHORTALL
1970-1981
Mrs F SLOAN
1981-1997
Mr Gerry McBRIDE
1998 to date
Mr Jim KEOGH
The new building in Watergate Lane accommodated older Junior children (current Year 5 and Year 6) for some years before the whole school moved there in 1992; Tony HENNESSEY remembers going there from September 1969 to July 1972; it had already been open for a couple of years. Tony thinks it may have opened in 1967. Thanks, Tony. Work goes on continually to keep the building fit for the 21st century.
