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Posted on behalf of Pam (member on the forum)

Can anyone help......

This is a School photo from around 1922 of my late aunt and class and wondered if anyone could help identify the school.
I think at the time she was living at the Globe Inn Rugeley although they moved to Great Western Hotel in Wednesbury at around that time.
The children are all girls.



The cross is over my Aunt Lena (Ridgway).
As I mentioned, it could be Rugeley or Wednesbury but would be interested to know the school.
I tried googling the text on the mat but with no joy.

Many thanks
Pam

poss *inchcombe on mat name of school ?

Maybe "Winchcombe" just down the M5 in the Cotswolds

Established 1962 according to their website.

Oops, that is the secondary school. The primary was opened in 2000!

It has to be either Rugeley or Wednesbury from notes I have from my Dad (Lenas Brother).
I don't think Lena lived with other family members (rather than Parents) but if she ever did, they hailed from Cannock, Sheffield and Lincolnshire areas.
I have been looking up the Girls School options (as they are all girls)
There was a Girls' National school in Church Street, Rugeley that was there in 1894
In Brereton there was a National School for about 60 poor girls, founded about 1825 that was there in 1851 (from White’s History, Gazetteer And Directory Of Staffordshire, 1851)
There was also C of E Girls school in Rugeley in 1955 (not sure if this is the Church St one listed above)
Pennies were short so it certainly wouldn't have been a fee paying school.
I am beginning to wonder if the word on the mat has nothing to do with the school name at all.