Mill Mount – alternative anglesPhotographed in July & August 2004 |
< back to Mill Mount Lane – page 1 After my first visit, I called back to have a look from the other side of the school premises, accessed from Albermarle Road. The grounds used to be protected by a gate in the walls at the Albermarle Road entrance, but there's no gate there now. Instead there's a hideous steel fence part way into the school grounds, going all the way around the lawn and the buildings. It looked more like a prison than a school. |
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The photo above shows a recent library extension to what I think we called the "New Wing", which was built in 1959, as was the gym. I guess the new library was built in the last ten years or so, as it wasn't there in the Mill Mount days. |
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Another view through the high steel fence, towards the corner where the "New Wing" meets the middle section housing the school hall, with another of those steel fences inbetween. | ||
I wasn't intending to include another page about Mill Mount, but I had a nice email from Helen, another former pupil, who'd found the original page about Mill Mount, and Helen's email reminded me of some more positive things about our old school. So I thought I should share all the photos I have in case any other former Mill Mount girls are looking on the web for information or pictures. More images, from both the Mill Mount Lane side of the school, and the Albermarle Road end, appear below. Most of the pictures on this page can be enlarged if you click on them. They were taken during two visits, in July and August 2004. |
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From Mill Mount Lane, looking towards the school gym at the bottom. On the right of the photo, the school hall building. This part of the school was built in 1935. On the left, just visible, newer buildings have replaced the old buildings, including the Mill Mount canteen. Also on that side of the lane, I remember, were the Domestic Science rooms, where we were taught to cook and sew, and didn't have any say in the matter, at least for the first year or two. I wish I'd been there when they were bulldozed. I would have cheered. |
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Above: looking back up the lane, with the school hall on the left. |
Above: the gym, built in 1959. |
The side of Mill Mount Lane opposite the school buildings has changed enormously since the mid-1980s when I was a pupil here. Across the lane from the main building, and the school hall and gym pictured above, there used to be various prefab classrooms. Now there are smart buildings which may be offices or housing. The prefabs were built in the 1970s, so weren't exactly historic, and I imagine no one mourned their disappearance. |
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For the sake of anyone else who was at Mill Mount around the time I was, I've included this photograph I discovered of the prefabs. I didn't take the photo, and think that it was taken by my sister, maybe on a nostalgic trip back here, probably in the 1980s, sometime after she'd left. These buildings remind me of music lessons, debating politics in English lessons, and being late for form registration quite a lot. |