School History
THE HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S
St. John's school has been standing on it's original plot since being built in 1911. It was named as St. John's Council School, Junior Mixed in 1911 and officially opened in July 1912. 197 children were enrolled.
Drill was held each morning outside in the playground and the logbook states that metal discs called tokens, were given out to the children for free dinners.
The school was built in red brick with long classrooms on two floors, space for a small office, and a cellar below the level of the pavement. The floor and the steps to the cellar are stone and very well worn and cold. The cellar is made up of several rooms, one of which was the bath house. Two cast iron baths were placed in the room, with one on either side of the space. One bath is still in place today with the ornamental feet still intact.



