Cap stone on the school wall, 2003
This is a section of the school wall that still stands, at the very far
end of the upper playground beyond the “Dubs”. Notice the name
of the manufacturer and the date on the capping stones. Every half dozen or
so of the cap stones on the wall carried this inscription: “Joseph Hamblet,
West Bromwich, 1894”. (The first school buildings were erected during
1893 and 1894, even though the school did not open until 1896). The clock tower
still stands, just, and can be seen above the wall.
The weed on the wall is an American willowherb, Epilobium ciliatum,
first recorded in the UK in the 1890's and now one of our most common weeds
of waste places, (one of us did Botany at A-level !)
