National Schools, King Street, Tunstall. Enlargement

TUNSTALL - National schools have been opened here. The two schoolrooms on the ground floor have been considerably increased in height, and are used, one as the girls’ school, and one as the infants’ school. On the upper floor an additional room, which is used as a boys’ school, has been added, 71 feet by 26 feet, and is so arranged that in connexion with the old one on the same floor it forms one adapted for public gatherings in the district. The facade of the building, which has a considerable frontage to King-street, is in the Gothic style, executed with red bricks, and relieved by bands, etc., of white and blue bricks. The central portion of this front projects slightly before the sides, and is carried up in a gable form surmounted by a lofty bell-turret, finished on the top with a gilded iron cresting. The whole is from the design of Mr. G. B. Ford, architect, Burslem, and executed by Mr. Beech, builder, Tunstall. [Builder 24 February 1872 page 153]

School founded in 1839 Controlled by Hulme Trustees. Opened as National School for Boys, Girls, and Infants. Enlarged 1871 and 1898. Replaced by Summerbank Council School in 1909.

Reference        Builder 24 February 1872 page 153