Strand School was a boys'
grammar school
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in the
Tulse Hill
Tulse Hill is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth in South London that sits on Brockwell Park. It is approximately five miles from Charing Cross and is bordered by Brixton, Dulwich, Herne Hill, Streatham and West Norwood.
History
The ar ...
area of
South London
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. It moved there in 1913 from its original location at
King's College in London's
Strand
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.
Distinguished in its heyday for its contribution of young men to the
civil service
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, it finally closed its doors in 1979 after hotly contested attempts by the education authorities from the early 1950s onwards to turn it into a
comprehensive school
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.
Former pupils included a leader of the
Greater London Council
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, figures prominent in the world of entertainment, and the scientist and environmentalist
James Lovelock
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, originator of the
Gaia hypothesis
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.
History
Origins
Strand School got its name from the fact that it originated in the evening department of
King's College in London's Strand. The teaching of evening classes commenced there in 1848; under Alfred Barry, principal between 1868 and 1883, these were "considerably extended":
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::In 1875, the government extended the range of the entry examination to the Civil Service and William Braginton set up private classes for those seeking entry into the lower grades. That year he suggested that a connection be established with King's College, allowing him to use rooms in the College and to benefit from its prestige. When in 1875 the government extended the range of the civil service entry examination, William Braginton had set up private classes in rooms at King's College in the Strand for those seeking entry into the lower grades. The prestige of being associated with the university college was an added benefit.
The Civil Service Department, as it was known in the early years, started with an intake of 172 men: it did not yet constitute a school for boys. In 1892 Braginton got permission to run a correspondence course, and day classes, for pupils wishing to compete for "boy clerkships" and "boy copyistships". Thus, in 1893, began Strand School.
The school's name was not apparent, however, till 1897, when King's College School
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moved to Wimbledon
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, making it possible for the commercial school to move into the college basement. Examinations on offer had by this time increased beyond those of the civil service as such, to include telegraph learners, assistant surveyorships, as well as those for customs and excise appointments. The success rate of Strand pupils was noteworthy. Many Old Strandians, as they became known, went on to distinguished careers in the civil service. In 1900 the London County Council
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(LCC) agreed that intermediate county scholarships could be held there, and in 1905 it was allowed to become a centre for the training of pupil teachers.[Keith Dakin-White, 'History of Strand School, 1875–1913', written for MA in Science Education, Chelsea College, University of London, 1984]
Relocation to South London
In 1907 the Board of Education
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution.
The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional are ...
determined that a mere basement was insufficient for a school. The threat of withdrawal of grant support caused the LCC to undertake to provide new buildings in Elm Park, between Tulse Hill and Brixton Hill
Brixton Hill is the name given to a section of road between Brixton and Streatham Hill in south London, England.
Brixton Hill and Streatham Hill form part of the traditional main London to Brighton road (A23). The road follows the line of a ...
in South London
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. In 1909 government of the school was handed over to a committee, which included LCC representatives. As a condition of the incorporation of King's College into the University of London
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, under the terms of the King's College London Transfer Act 1908, the civil service classes for adults had to be placed under separate administration, so Braginton agreed to make the necessary arrangements: he relinquished the headmastership in 1909, to run St George's College for women, Red Lion Square, and St George's College for men in Kingsway. R.B. Henderson took over as headmaster of Strand School in 1910, and he it was who supervised the move to South London in 1913.
After the move to its new red brick premises, Strand flourished as a grammar school. Though its priority had been to prepare candidates for the civil service, it went on to offer courses leading to the Ordinary and Advanced level GCE examinations. Extra-curricular activities included a variety of sports such as football, cricket, swimming, athletics, boxing and fives
Fives is an English sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a 3- or 4-sided special court, using a gloved or bare hand as though it were a racquet, similar to ...
. Games and social activities were organised on a House system
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, with boys being allocated a house on entering the school and thereafter being guided by a housemaster. There was active competition between the school's six houses: Arundel, Bedford, Exeter, Kings, Lancaster, and Salisbury. These are the names of streets off the Strand
Strand may refer to:
Topography
*The flat area of land bordering a body of water, a:
** Beach
** Shoreline
*Strand swamp, a type of swamp habitat in Florida
Places Africa
*Strand, Western Cape, a seaside town in South Africa
* Strand Street, ...
, plus Kings College. Salisbury Street no longer exists.
The school had an annual sports day, which was held on the school field until 1952, when Tulse Hill Comprehensive was built there.
There were a number of societies, including a debating society, a dramatic society and, in later years, a film society. The cadet force, had air force and army sections, the latter affiliated to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps
The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United St ...
.[London County Council, (1962), Secondary Schools in Bermondsey, Lambeth and Southwark, Division 8, page 22] The school published each July and December ''The Strand School Magazine''. A printing press in the gallery above the main hall turned out three school calendars a year, one for each term, visiting cards, membership cards for school societies and letter-headings, as well as programmes for school plays.
1936: Tragedy in the Black Forest
The school suffered a major tragedy on 17 April 1936 when a hiking party of 27 were caught in a blizzard in the Black Forest
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, near Freiburg, Germany
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, and five boys froze to death. They had set out on a three-hour hike between hostels, via Schauinsland
The Schauinsland (literally "look-into-the-country"; near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a mountain in the Black Forest with an elevation of 1,284 m (4,213 ft) above sea level. It is a popular destination for day trips. Due to the h ...
, 4200 feet. The master in charge, Kenneth Keast ignored local terrain, the weather reports indicating severe weather, and multiple warnings from locals, directing his group up the steepest flank of the Schauinsland in severe weather, ultimately stranding his group on the southeastern mountain flank . The event was used by the Nazi regime as a propaganda tool in which Keast was absolved from blame. Initially commended for his courage by the London County Council
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's committee of enquiry.., subsequent investigative reports, including a 2016 article in ''The Guardian'' highlighted the negligence of the master in charge.
In 1938 the ' ("Monument to Englishmen") of architect Hermann Alker was erected by the Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth (german: Hitlerjugend , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. ...
in commemoration.
World War II
During the Second World War
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Strand School was evacuated to Effingham in Surrey
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.
Crossword security alarm
The school in 1944, via its then-headmaster Leonard Dawe
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, was involved in what became known as the D-Day ''Daily Telegraph'' crossword security alarm.
1956: Tulse Hill Comprehensive School and the final years
Strand served its surrounding area for most of the twentieth century as the local boys' grammar school, with nearby St Martin-in-the Fields High School providing for girls.
In the mid-1950s came the first serious threat to Strand School's existence, when two large comprehensive schools
A comprehensive school typically describes a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is res ...
were opened locally: Dick Sheppard School
Dick Sheppard School was a large school, originally for girls, at Tulse Hill in the London Borough of Lambeth. It was founded as the sister establishment to Tulse Hill School for boys and as the Comprehensive alternative to St Martin-In-The-F ...
for girls in 1955, and the giant Tulse Hill School
Tulse Hill School was a large comprehensive school for boys in Upper Tulse Hill, in the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The school building had eight floors and served almost two thousand pupils. It opened in 1956 and closed in 1990. Notable ...
for boys in 1956, the latter built on what had been the Strand playing fields
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For most sports t ...
. Only by a narrow marginfollowing an intense campaign by parents, old boys and school governorshad the school beaten off a plan to abolish it as a grammar school, and turn it into one of the two comprehensives: what became Tulse Hill Comprehensive was to have been known as "Strand Comprehensive."
The successful campaign provided what was to prove, in the end, only temporary respite. With the abolition of the tripartite system
The Tripartite System was the arrangement of state-funded secondary education between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. It was an administrative implementation of the Education Act 1944 and the ...
in education, the Inner London Education Authority
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took the decision to go fully comprehensive. So in 1972 the ILEA again proposed that Strand, described by Labour's Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour Party politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for over 32 years from 1964 to 1997, and served as Depu ...
as a "small maintained boys' grammar school in an elderly building," be turned into a comprehensive; its pupils were to be transferred to Dick Sheppard, with the Strand and Tulse Hill buildings merged to form a single new comprehensive school. Battle once again commenced.
Margaret Thatcher
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, at the time Secretary of State for Education
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, later approved the closure, but not the Tulse Hill School alterations. Strand parents this time chose to contest the closure in the courts: in May 1972 an injunction
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was granted forbidding closure. The Labour-controlled ILEA was forced to abandon immediate closure of Strand, but made a second application to the minister in July 1972.
Thatcher turned down this application in January 1973, saying that the change of heart was because she had "listened to the parents and watched their fight to save a small school which provided an opportunity for anyone who got there on a basis of merit, whatever his background."[House of Commons Speech by Margaret Thatcher (Secondary Education (Opposition motion)), (1 February 1973), (Hansard HC 49/1639-68]
Around 1979 Strand School was closed down. Its remnants were merged with Dick Sheppard School
Dick Sheppard School was a large school, originally for girls, at Tulse Hill in the London Borough of Lambeth. It was founded as the sister establishment to Tulse Hill School for boys and as the Comprehensive alternative to St Martin-In-The-F ...
, which became, for the time that remained, a mixed school. Of all four schools, the only one to survive the rigours of improvement and shifting education policy was St Martin-In-The-Fields High School for Girls. Tulse Hill School
Tulse Hill School was a large comprehensive school for boys in Upper Tulse Hill, in the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The school building had eight floors and served almost two thousand pupils. It opened in 1956 and closed in 1990. Notable ...
closed in 1990, and Dick Sheppard School in 1994.
Subsequent history of the building
After Strand School's closure, the buildings became known as the Strand Centre and had various uses. They were used as temporary premises for schools being renovated and by an Albanian Youth Group. In 2000 they were converted for use as a primary school to temporarily house Brockwell Primary School, while the new Jubilee Primary School was being built on Brockwell's site. When Jubilee Primary finally opened in 2003 the Strand premises again fell vacant.
2009, Elm Court School
In 2007, to house Elm Court School, major renovation were made at the former Strand School site. Elm Court is a special educational needs
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Definition
The definiti ...
school with capacity for 100 pupils at key stages 3 and 4,[› Services](_blank)
/ref> "aged 9 to 19 years who have learning difficulties with associated social and communication needs. Many ... pupils have autism". The school moved from Elmcourt Road in West Norwood
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to make way for the new Elmgreen secondary school. Elm Court School opened in Elm Park SW2 in March 2009.
The school's architecture
The buildings near the southern end of Elm Park were built by the London County Council between 1912 and 1914 under the direction of the chief architect W.E. Riley.[Edmund Bird, (January 1997), Consultation Draft Report & Character Assessment Statement for the Proposed Brixton Hill Conservation Area, (London Borough of Lambeth Environmental Services)] The style employed was Edwardian
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, with a red brick frontage decorated with Portland stone
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dressings, enlivened by a central stone arched window incorporating a sculpture.
Other features of the school were its main hall with its war memorial
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Symbolism
Historical usage
It has ...
to pupils and former pupils who died in the First
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and Second
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World Wars, in the form of a large organ
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bought by public subscription, the gym
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nasium at the rear of the main building, and, on the top floor, what were laboratories
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and the dining hall
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. In the 1960s a two-storey art and woodkwork/metalwork block was built next to the gymnasium.
The school has been described as, "one of the finest secular buildings in terms of its architectural quality and character" and, "a splendid local landmark of significant historic and architectural interest in its own right."
A less obvious feature is the two fives
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courts located behind the school. These are similar to those required for Rugby fives
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It is most commonly believed to be d ...
. A photograph showing the right hand court in use (from 1914) exists in the Frith Collection.
Headmasters
Brixton from 1913
* Bernard Fenton, 1974-1979
* Martin Reed, 1969-1974
* J. E. Cox, headmaster: 1956–1969. Died during summer holidays in 1969 whilst still Headmaster.
* Leonard Dawe
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(1889–1963): 1926–56.
* Ronald Gurner
Stanley Ronald Kershaw Gurner M.C. M.A. (1890–1939) was a headmaster and writer who was born in London.
Early years
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(1890–1939): 1920–26.
*R. B. Henderson: September 1913 – 1919.
King's College, from 1893
*Ralph Bushill Henderson: 1911–13. He then continued at Brixton.
* William Braginton: 1893–1910.
Notable former pupils
Former pupils are known as Old Strandians. They include the following:
*Rev. Donald Aird, Vicar of St Marks Church, Hamilton Terrace, London NW8 (1979–1995), founder of the Society of Christians and Jews.
* Vernon Butcher, Organist of the Chapel Royal
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.
*David Guthrie Catcheside
David Guthrie Catcheside FRS (31 May 1907 – 1 June 1994) was a British plant geneticist.
He was educated at Strand School and King's College London (BSc). He was a Lecturer in Botany at King's College London from 1933 to 1936, and at the Unive ...
, seminal figure in the development of post-war genetics
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.
*Charles Alfred Fisher
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, Professor of Geography, School of Oriental & African Studies.
*Fruitbat
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Career
Carter played in a number of bands during the late 1970s, before meeting Jim Bob (James Neil Morrison) at The Orchest ...
(Les Carter), rock musician, co-founder of Carter USM
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.
* Leonard Christopher Gilley, artist.
* Sir Reg Goodwin, politician and former Leader of the Greater London Council
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.
*Leonard Hussey
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, explorer.
* David Jacobs, CBE, broadcaster, long-time presenter of BBC's ''Juke Box Jury
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'' and ''Any Questions
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It is typically broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Fridays at 8 ...
''.
* Lord Sydney Jacobson, newspaper executive and editor.
*George Barker Jeffery
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, mathematical physicist, translator of papers by Einstein, Lorentz & other fathers of relativity theory
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.
* Mick Jones, rock musician, lead guitarist and vocalist, The Clash
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.
* James Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, scientist and environmentalist, best known for the Gaia hypothesis
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.
* Richard Valentine Moore, winner of the George Cross
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.
* Sir Arnold Plant, economist.
*Leroy Rosenior
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, professional footballer, coach and broadcaster.
*Tim Roth
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He made hi ...
, Academy award
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-nominated, BAFTA-winning movie actor and director
*Jeremy Spencer
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, rock musician, founder-member of Fleetwood Mac
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.
*Euan Uglow
Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932 – 31 August 2000) was a British painter. He is best known for his nude and still life paintings, such as ''German Girl'' and ''Skull''.
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, artist.[Dolman, Bernard, (1927), ''Who's who in Art'', (Art Trade Press)]
* Colin Hyams, Mayor of Huntingdon 2012–2013
References
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