Birmingham board school
Videos
The Birmingham board schools were set up very rapidly after the Forster Elementary Education Act 1870 was enacted, covering England and Wales. Over forty were created in Birmingham.
Icknield Street School
The tower of Icknield Street School
Oozells Street Board School - Ikon Gallery
Typical exposed roof ironwork. Tilton Road School, Bordesley.
John Henry Chamberlain
Videos
John Henry Chamberlain, generally known professionally as J. H. Chamberlain, was a British nineteenth-century architect based in Birmingham.
Birmingham board school
…on 28 November 1870 and included nonconformists Joseph Chamberlain, George Dawson and R. W. Dale. The School Board office was at 98 Edmund Street. J. H. Chamberlain's firm Martin & Chamberlain (no relation of Joseph Chamberlain) was appointed architect for the new schools from the beginning. The ambitious building…
John Henry Chamberlain
Shenstone House of 1855: Chamberlain's first building in Birmingham, and the first High Victorian building in the town
The rebuilt Central Library of 1882, demolished in 1974
Chamberlain enrolling Hercules as a member of the Birmingham and Midland Institute: detail from an 1866 leaflet