Final Fitzmaurice Teaching Staff 1979-80

Back, left to right: Alistair Thomson, Tony Hull, Geoff Swift, Peter Knight, John Warburton, John Blowers, Stuart Ferguson, Tim Wilbur, Bob Hawkes, Harry Haddon, John Blake.

Centre: Joan Davis, Lynne Powell, Doug Anderson, Colin Steele, Virginia Evans, Joan Van Ryssen, Margaret Osbourne, Mireille (French Assistante), Sally Burden, Margaret Gadd.

Front:  Ken Revill, Marilyn Maundrell, Noreen Brady, Sid Johnson, Gerald Reid (Headmaster), Meg Tottle-Smith, Enid Wicheard, Diane Satterthwaite, Liz Buchanan, Margaret Hore.

Photo with thanks to Duncan  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/5249417045/

Fitzmaurice Grammar School, unknown date, though judging by the foliage late 19th or early 20th Century most likely, not long after opening

The Aerial view of the school then

From left to right: the girls' cloakroom of 1928, the gymnasium of 1901 added to the main building, and the woodwork room of 1905, with the Gallipoli hut of 1920 and the dining room of 1945 in the background.

Fitzmaurice today

The main school building from 1897 has now been turned into flats for the elderly.

Photographs from Wiltshire District Council and Bradford on Avon museum unless attributed otherwise.

Fitzmaurice Grammar School started life as the ‘County Technical School’ and was opened in temporary premises in Frome Road and then in a purpose-built building in Junction Road in 1897, designed by Bradford-born architect Thomas Ball Silcock.  Its cost of £3,288 was paid for by Lord Fitzmaurice, Erlysman Pinckney, Clothworkers Company, Department of Science & Arts and Wiltshire County Council.  It was renamed Fitzmaurice Grammar School following its benefactor’s death in 1935.  It closed in 1980 in a reorganisation which saw it merged with Trinity School as the present St Laurence School.

The Aerial view of the school today

The main school building and most of the site has been turned into flats for the elderly.  Its perhaps ironic that many of the current occupants were once students at the school which closed its doors in June 1980. Additional buildings have been constructed and a road forced through on the site of the girls cloakroom and gymnasium to the back of the site where the dining hall and mobile classrooms or ‘Terapins’ as they were sometimes known once stood. The playing fields are now part of the former Trowbridge Road Primary School which changed its name to Fitzmaurice Primary School in 1985 after Fitzmaurice Grammar School closed.

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