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(From The Worcestershire & Districts Change Ringing Association)

This is the Church where we used to have our Founder's Day services. It must have been difficult to work out when Founder's Day should have been as most of the Founders were anonymous potters - The Potters of Hanley Castle - and any info such as first class date or birthdays must surely not be available. I expect they just picked a slack time of year and dumped the celebration in the gap.

This is the school itself. (A Photo is desperately needed)



(From The Hanley castle High School Web-site - though this has not been updated for years)

It doesn't look at all like this now but it was close to this when I was there. There was a beautiful quad enclosed on nearly all sides by the main school buildings. Most of it was low beamed with short stairways to link the various classrooms along the upper floors. The History room was especially atmospheric and of course all that teenaged angst resulted in many rumours of hauntings and other mysterious phenomena. The quad is now filled partly with the computer block though it may be even more full since I last saw it. Maybe a quick vist at Christmas with lunch at the three Kings in the Village. The school is bigger than than the village and I estimate that the population of the village quadruples (at least) when the children arrive every day.