This document has been produced by Ex Pupils of the school. If you have any amendments or further information/stories/photographs you would like including, then please email Oswestry Family & Local History Group –
[email protected] and we will be pleased to include any new information into this document. Issue 4 04/07/2015 Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3. The Story 7. The School Photograph 1918 8. The School Photograph 1951 9. The Pupils & Teachers in Photograph 10. The School Building c1950 11. Students 1924 12. Students 1951 13. School Outing 14. Students 19?? 15. Students 1970 16. Girls Netball Team 17. Girls Netball Team v Teachers 1973 18. School Play 1950 19. The Cast 20. Teachers 1944-1949 21. Newspaper Articles 27. Advertisements For School Intake 28. Census Records 1841 29. Census Records 1851 30. Census Records 1861 31. Census Records 1871 32. Census Records 1881 33. Census Records 1891 34. Census Records 1901 35. Census Records 1911 Issue 4 04/07/2015 Page 2 QUEEN’S PARK SCHOOL One of the oldest country’s girls’ schools In mid Victorian days it would have been described as a ‘select academy for young ladies’, but its story goes back to well before the accession of Queen Victoria. No one really knows the exact date, when what is now Queens Park School, had its beginnings. The first definite record that can be traced in an advertisement in the Oswestry Herald, for 12th December 1821, announcing the Pupils Ball at the Wynnstay Inn, followed by a notice of thanks for support, from Castle Buildings, Willow Street.