Marlborough Schools

What is now Marlborough Junior School was originally built in 1899 as Marlborough Road Infants' School and attended by children between five and seven years of age.

At seven, children moved on to the Senior School, pictured opposite. This building actually contained two separate schools - one for boys upstairs and one downstairs for girls. At the age of eleven, children took the Scholarship examination. If successful, they moved on to grammar school. If unsuccessful, they remained at the Senior School until the age of fourteen.

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The building containing the Senior Schools was bombed in 1941. All that remains is the chimney pictured opposite. Children were dispersed to nearby schools, though nominally still Marlborough pupils. In 1943 both Senior Schools were officially closed.

After the War, the Infants' School became the Juniors and a new building, pictured opposite, was erected on the bombed site to house the Infants.

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Marlborough Infants' School 1998

Information supplied by the Elders and
Marlborough Road Girls' School Log 1939-1943