Ross School c 1920, Old Maid's Walk/Copse Cross Street (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 22:09 (3910 days ago) @ petrina

Well done Petrina !
Just goes to show that there's Google and there's google, if you get what I mean. I also searched Clairville but using a different search engine and found nowt, even tried Clareville etc too ! A little annoying for me (blooming electrickery again!) but goes to show persistence pays off and of course it's only right & proper you should find "your" school.

I now see the school is actually mentioned on the Ross site we kept visiting earlier, at least my "guesses" regarding it being near the old Workhouse wern't too many miles off the mark !. It's interesting to read about how the street name became more "pc friendly" with time, just as the old O/S maps showed when I was reading them; I wonder if the locals moaned about "nanny state" etc as they might nowadays ;-)

Thanks for your good work on this interesting quest,
take care, J.

http://www.ross-on-wye.com/index.php?page=ross_510-Copse_Cross_Street