Article from the school magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171. The photos are more recent.
Today’s view
The buttress of the old City wall (in the playground) was at one time lived in and formed part of a row of four cottages on the site of Elm Hall. These were demolished when Wesley Hall was built in the thirties. The seventeenth century window in the buttress is blocked and the space behind filled with soil.
A closer view with the seat dedicated to the staff and pupils in 2015
The blocked back doorway in the wall in George Street (to the left of the school railings) was intended to serve the proposed Head Master’s house with accommodation for boarders. This was never built through lack of money and the Head Master took a house in Bradmore Road instead.
This is the site where the house was due to be built