From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LI, iii JULY 1959 No. 166
A sign of the steady building of new schools in Oxford is that we bid farewell to the Central Girls’ School in New Inn Hall Street.
It closes its doors here to move to its new premises at Cheney. We congratulate them on vacating their cramped quarters where nevertheless they can look back on over seventy years of honourable and distinguished service dot the city. How different is educational provision nowadays! These premises however will not be idle as we ourselves are to take them over temporarily and so gain a gymnasium and shower baths, a room which can be set aside for Art, a metal work room and extra class rooms. This will be a great easement for us. Traffic to and fro will be by Bulwarks Lane, so that we shall avoid adding to the congestion of New Inn Hall Street.
From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Vol. LII, i DECEMBER 1959 no 167
School Notes
The term opened with the glorious summer weather continuing and with the happy prospect of our expanding into the extra premises left vacant by the Girls’ Central School. Adaptations had indeed been proceeding apace but, as is so often the case, the finishing touches were wanting. First the Metalwork room became a reality and then the gymnasium was completed so that this, with the ancillary shower baths, have become a routine part of the curriculum. Mr Bielby and some of the Mathematics forms occupy the top floor. Meanwhile the narrow but shapely door into Bulwarks Lane had been finished and so our way to and fro allows us to pass through this historic piece of Oxford on top of some of the original wall, with Nuffield College on one side and St Peter’s Hall on the other.