Alderman Blaxill School

Academy in Colchester, Essex, England

51°52′23″N 0°52′06″E / 51.872984°N 0.868431°E / 51.872984; 0.868431InformationTypeAcademyEstablished1920Closed2014Department for Education URN115380 TablesOfstedReportsGenderCoeducationalAge11 to 16Websitehttp://blaxill.net/Index.html

Alderman Blaxill School was a secondary school with academy status in Colchester, Essex, and was the town's smallest secondary school. It closed in 2014.

History

Alderman Blaxill Secondary Modern School in Walnut Tree Way, Colchester, was opened in 1955. It replaced the former Hamilton Road Central School (built in 1914, but used as a military hospital during World War I,not opening as a school until 1920. Following the Education Act 1944, it became a secondary modern school. In 1955, the secondary part of the school moved to the new building in Walnut Tree Way, Shrub End, and was renamed Alderman Blaxill after a former Mayor of Colchester and chairman of the education committee. The Hamilton Road building was used for infants and juniors. In 1976, Alderman Blaxill became a comprehensive school.^[1] It became an academy in 2012, and closed in 2014. The majority of the students transferred to The Stanway School and Thomas Lord Audley School, with which Alderman Blaxill was federated.

Legacy

Following the closure of the school in July 2014, the buildings were maintained for temporary use by children from the Market Field School in Elmstead Market, which was being rebuilt at the time.^[2] Demolition of the school commenced in October 2017.^[3]

References

^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22013&strquery=Alderman Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine Blaxill
^ Brading, Wendy (9 September 2014). "Alas Smith and Jones - but we're getting on fine". Colchester Daily Gazette. Newsquest. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
^ Hicks, Ritchie (8 November 2017). "Demolition Works commence on former Alderman Blaxill School". ritchiehicks.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.