Ross on Wye School c 1920, Old Maid's Walk (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, February 27, 2014, 22:48 (3923 days ago) @ petrina

Hi Petrina,
When you say the end of Old Maid's Walk, do you mean the end furthest east from the Church & River, where the Walk meets Copse Cross Street ?
I ask as the Old Maps site for Ross doesn't show any Schools marked along Old Maid's Walk. However, upto & including the 1938 Map it does shows Webbs Almshouses north of the Walk, opposite the bowling green, if this was a council-run community "resource" then perhaps it had/was a schoolroom at some point ?? Later maps suggest this area is now the site of the Health Centre & Police Station.

OR MAYBE ?

Where Old Maid's Walk meets Copse Cross Street is opposite what used to be the large area apparently occupied by the Poor Law Institution (c1938) aka old Workhouse buildings, which were accessed from Alton Street. This became the Dean Hill Hospital by time of the 1968 map, now the new Community Hospital.
As with the Almshouses, it seems likely to me that any government-funded school in the locality could be associated with, if not part of, such buildings. The Workhouses site does say "A children's playground and single-storey school-room also stood to the west of the main block", ie nearer to Cross Copse Street hence Old Maid's Lane, whether this is purely for the inmates' use I don't know ?.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Ross/

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Does any of this fit in with your recollections/knowledge, you know this part of Ross far better than I do, I can only go by what I see on the maps.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html