Birley high school, hulme, manchester

a community of people that strive to succeed, to cooperate and recah the POTENTIAL that everyone of them has (had) - built on a set of standards of engagement and mutual support - learning and academic development on a FOUNDATION of cultural awareness and access to arts, music, sport and adventure - it's a time and place gone now, but its legacy remains in the people it helpED form and the community it helped build.

I have tried to include ideas, thoughts and pictures that should recall memories for a great many people. However, when Birley closed and was subsequently demolished, along with it went many records, school momentos and muniments. If you have any ideas for this site or pictures that you would like to share, email me at petebradshaw@msn.com - please send any pictures as jpegs and include any appropriate captions.

THE BIRLEY MEMORIAL STONE:

In September 2017 - I worked with the Church of the Ascension in Hulme to relocate the Birley memorial Stone to a site beside MMU Birley Campus. The stone was gifted to our school in 1970. It was the original stone in Vine St School - Manhcester's first Board School which was on our school site (approx where the UK Fast Offices are now). The stone is laid flat and we need volunteers to regularly cehck the palnting around it to keep it in good order. Why not just visit some time ?

The pic left is how the stone was desiplayed at Birley - it ws in the quadranglr between the main entrance and hall. The lower pic is how it has been laid at MMU - it's just off Warde Street.