Schools in Northampton late 1930's

[RuthT]

Hi
Does anyone know which schools my mum would have gone to , she was born in 1930, she grew up in Gladstone Terrace. Any help gratefully received.

Thank you

[byron]

Hi Ruth - is Gladstone Terrace going to be the same as Gladstone Road in the Spencer area of town? 
(they are mainly ex-council houses)

byron

[RuthT]

Hi Byron
Gladstone terrace ran off Barrack Lane and Adelaide Street. Up near the racecourse.
Is that any help!

[byron]

Ah - that is in the Semilong area of town very near the old middle school on Barrack Road which recently closed so I expect she would have gone there. Not sure what it's original name was though - I'll try to find out for you

byron

[RuthT]

Would you? Thank you!

[byron]

Hi Ruth,

The school in question was called St George's Council School and would only have been a few minutes walk from Adelaide Street (Gladstone Terrace) as it was (is) on the main Barrack Road.

regards
byron

[RuthT]

Hi Byron
Thanks for finding that out, was that a infant/junior or for older kids?

[byron]

I think it would have been primary age - at least that's what it was before it closed.

It is actually quite an attractive building as schools go 

I am sending you a PM

byron

[mick7546]

Hi Ruth,
 the information that you have been given is correct. Gladstone Terrace was indeed just off Adelaide Street which is off the A508 Barrack Road. The area is indeed known as Semilong but the is a number of schools that your mum could have attended.
As an infant, she may have attended St. Pauls School, which was situated in Semilong Road. If she did attend that school she would probably have stayed there through her "junior" years (until she was about 11 years old. she may have gone on then to attend St. Georges School along the Barrack Road.
In the 1950's this school was a secondary modern school.
Another alternative would be Spring Lane School as an infant and junior.
A 3rd choice would have been Military Road School, which (of this point I am not 100% certain) I believe was a secondary school (seniors).
Of the schools that I have mentioned, only Spring Lane is still open.
I attended St. Paul's from 1951 to 1957 and my sister attended St Paul's from 1947 to 1953 when she started at St Georges where she stayed until 1957.
Incidentally, there are a few books about "old Northampton" which feature a photograph of the residents of Gladstone Terrace at the time of the coronation of King George 6th (1937).
regards
Mick