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Burbury Street School
« on: July 03, 2020, 10:43:00 AM »
Burbury Street Board School, Hockley, Birmingham 19.........
The large building on the right and behind the school in the photo is the Lucas Great King Street Factory.
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2020, 10:52:26 AM »
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2020, 07:02:22 PM »
The school featured on the list of venues where adult evening classes were run.....
Entrance fee: 1 shilling (5 new pence), payable in 4 instalments........
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2020, 11:36:00 PM »
I attended Burbury Street 1960-65, then it had become Harry Lucas Senior School.
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2020, 10:45:13 AM »
A few minutes walk north-east of the school brought you to Burbury Park, with its bandstand it could well have a been a pleasant Summer Sunday afternoon destination in its heyday, unfortunately my memory of it in the early 60s is of it being a barren dirt patch, the park is still there but I'v no idea what it looks like, it's been many decades since I was in the area.
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Link Burbury Park: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=52.49745&lon=-1.90620&layers=168&b=6
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2020, 04:36:06 PM »
Burbury Street Board School, Hockley, Birmingham 19.........
The large building on the right and behind the school in the photo is the Lucas Great King Street Factory.
It's only by the grace of God we are able to see this pic of the school - check out the story of it's survival on the Harry Lucas School Thread: https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12554.msg655363#msg655363
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2020, 05:35:56 PM »
Just a few minutes walk from the school took you to the Lucas Gt King Street Factory, the flagship factory in the giant Joseph Lucas industrial empire. I continued to pass the factory some years after leaving school and would often see the Lucas light test vehicle parked - a metallic mink Ford Granada with a body stripe in the Lucas corporate colours of dark green and grey, it was no coincidence that when the school became Harry Lucas Secondary School the school colours  were green and grey.
An image depicting the Lucas test vehicle is attached, I think it still looks stylish even by today's standards....
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2020, 05:09:44 PM »
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2020, 09:19:05 PM »
The School Plan......
Link Harry Lucas Senior School Plan: https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12554.msg655119#msg655119

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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2022, 07:07:20 PM »
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.   
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Re: Burbury Street School
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2022, 07:22:57 PM »
Part 2. Burbury Street Board School - of course nothing in the previous post helps to explain why, when planners chose to name Burbury Street, with Farm Street School taken, did not logically choose Bridge Street West School (that street was on the school's southern boundary). The name may not have rolled off the tongue as readily as Burbury Street but at least it would have been geographically accurate.
The school was renamed Harry Lucas County Primary School in 1954 and again to Harry Lucas Senior School in 1958, and that name remained until the school closed in 1969, no trace of the building remains.
Harry Lucas was the elder brother of Joseph Lucas, together they created the industrial empire Joseph Lucas Ltd. The company's flagship factory, Gt King Street, bordered Burbury Street and can be seen upper right behind the school in the pic of the school link:  https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15808.msg737790#msg737790 

Link: Harry Lucas Senior School https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12554.msg428331#msg428331
Link: Farm Street https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=14913.msg655428#msg655428
Link: A fantastic map showing Farm Street and Burbury Street Schools (credit to fellow member Astoness for finding this map) https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=52.49593&lon=-1.90819&layers=168&b=6
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