Part 1. Burbury Street Board School - why so named when it had no connection whatsoever with Burbury Street?
The seeds of this mis-naming lay in the nearby Farm Street Board School, also mis-named. Farm Street School, opened 1873, predated Burbury Street School by some 18 years.
The entrance to Farm Street School was on Villa Street so, logically, that should have been the name of the school. Naming the school wrongly prevented Burbury Street School being correctly named Farm Street, on which the school's entrance lay.
So, who, or what, was Burbury that the planners considered so important that it needed to be incorporated into as many geographical features as possible (Burbury Street, Burbury Park and Burbury Street Board School)?
The truth is we will probably never know. My attempts to ascertain the origins of Burbury have, so far, proved fruitless, so if you have the answer now is a good time to share your knowledge with the rest of the world.