Wonderful Walhouse
A Memory of Cannock.
Walhouse C of E School was an integral part of Cannock's very existence for some 175 years. Sadly there is no image of it on this archive. This is what one record says of it:
Walhouse School was founded in 1828 by Mrs Ann Craycroft Walhouse of Hatherton Hall who gave £2,000 to buy the land and build a school and teacher's house on New Penkridge Road. By 1851 it had become a National School and was enlarged in 1898. It had separate girls, boys and infants schools. Additional Horsa Hut classrooms were built on the opposite side of the road in 1950. the boys and girls schools combined to form a mixed Junior School in 1959 when the Local Education Authority took over its management. New classrooms were added in the 1960s and 1970s and the Horsa Huts were finally demolished in 1982. The Walhouse School closed in 2004.
The school closed in name only! It still stands on the same site in New Penkridge Road but now carries the name of St.Luke's C of E Controlled Primary School.
My family attended that school for four generations including myself as a pupil and later as a teacher.
I have so many memories of this school and I will make several contributions over the next few months which you may like to read, even to respond to what I write.
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