Pennywell Primary School

I am very grateful to Ena Duns (nee Taylor) who was a pupil at Pennywell School and has given us the following information and dates. In spite of the constraints she mentions she says that she cannot speak too highly of the quality of education she received from the dedicated teachers.

Houses were built in Pennywell before the World War II, but there was insufficient manpower and resources during the war to build schools, shops, churches, libraries etc. The authorities modified some houses in Ferry Road to become school classrooms, for example by knocking two bedrooms into one. Heating was supplied by a coal fire at the front of the class, and ventilation by opening the sash windows. The playgrounds were the gardens of the various houses which held classrooms. At the end of the war temporary classrooms were built in Ferry Road Avenue and for the first time there was a school hall.