NEWSLETTER of the WEST END LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY WESTENDERWESTENDER MAY - JUNE 2007 VOLUME 5 NUMBER 11 CHAIRMAN SPOTLIGHT ON BUILDINGS (1) Neville Dickinson THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL VICE-CHAIRMAN Bill White SECRETARY and MINUTES SECRETARY Rose Voller TREASURER Peter Wallace MUSEUM CURATOR Nigel Wood PUBLICITY Ray Upson MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Delphine Kinley VISIT OUR WEBSITE! THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHED IN 1915 WHEN IN USE AS THE PARISH HALL It was situated on the corner of High Street and Chapel Road, where today stands In-Excess and Website: Netto’s. Built in 1838 as Westend’s first National School it became the village Parish Hall when www.hants.org.uk/westendlhs/ vacated by St. James’ School in 1903-4. The photograph of the building when seen above in 1915 still had the original fence enclosing the childrens playground. Seen on the right hand side E-mail address: is the two story original schoolmasters house with separate porch. On the left of the picture to
[email protected] left of the porch is the later added additional classroom. It was eventually deemed too small, old and costly to continue serving as the Parish Hall and was demolished around 1977-78 to make way for the present commercial buildings. More details and photographs of this nice old building can be viewed in our archives held at the Museum. EDITOR West End LocalWest History End Local Society History & Society is sponsored by Nigel.G.Wood Westender is sponsored by EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION ADDRESS 40 Hatch Mead WEST END West End Southampton, Hants SO30 3NE PARISH Telephone: 023 8047 1886 E-mail:
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