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Mile Oak Approved School

Demolition in 1977
By Ray Hamblett/Bernard Langrish
Photo:The former Mile Oak Junior Approved School for Boys
Photo:The former Mile Oak Junior Approved School for Boys
Photo:The former Mile Oak Junior Approved School for Boys
Photo:The former Mile Oak Junior Approved School for Boys
Photo:The former Mile Oak Junior Approved School for Boys
Photo:The former Mile Oak Junior Approved School for Boys

The website Missing Ancestors.com  has a section on Industrial Schools  which shows that the original name for the school was Brighton Town and London County Council Industrial School for Boys. It then became the Portslade Industrial School. From 1933 it became the Mile Oak Junior Approved School for Boys.

The Home Guard used the square rooftop parapet of the main building for air-raid watch in WWII. The photographer of these pictures Bernard Langrish was among the guard before he was called up for full active service.

I was attending the Portslade Secondary School in the High Street in the early 1970s. As part of our P.E. curriculum, groups of us were given the chance to use the small swimming pool on the site to take lessons with our sports teacher Mr Parkin. Facilities were very basic in the unheated pool area. The adjoining communal changing room was just large enough for about twenty boys to to struggle into costumes while trying to maintain some sort of male dignity

The school site was cleared in 1977 and is now an area of modern housing.


This page was added on 21/11/2007.

Comments:

To all concerned. I was so happy to see these photos
of Mile Oak approved school for boys. As I was there from 1945 until 1950. It brought back wonderful memories of the best years of my life. Also a tear to my eyes thinking of those
wonderful years, I only wish I could turn the clock back. I wish to thank the person for sending these pictures through. I will treasure them, for the rest of my life. My fondest regards to all, Trevor Whitworth.

By Trevor Whitworth (22/11/2007)

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