Jones West Mon School, Blaendare Road, Pontypool 25 July 2019
Jones West Mon School viewed from Prescoch Lane, Pontypool. The “modern” brick building to the right, built in about 1928, was always referred to in my time as a pupil there in the 1960s as” The New Building” and was chiefly a science block with a woodworking shop on the ground floor.
Jones' West Monmouthshire Grammar School for Boys was opened in 1898 from a legacy left by the Haberdasher William Jones on land craftily donated by Squire Hanbury to win over the executors who were looking for a site for a new school. The school was run by the Haberdashers, the school badge being their crest, until 1954 when it was taken over by Monmouthshire County Council as a Grammar School under the 1944 Education Act. In 1958, boarding ceased at the school ending the distinction between "boarders" and "day boys". In 1980 the school became a comprehensive, shed the school badge and tie link to the Haberdashers, and, shock horror, became co-ed!
Jones West Mon School, Blaendare Road, Pontypool 25 July 2019
Jones West Mon School viewed from Prescoch Lane, Pontypool. The “modern” brick building to the right, built in about 1928, was always referred to in my time as a pupil there in the 1960s as” The New Building” and was chiefly a science block with a woodworking shop on the ground floor.
Jones' West Monmouthshire Grammar School for Boys was opened in 1898 from a legacy left by the Haberdasher William Jones on land craftily donated by Squire Hanbury to win over the executors who were looking for a site for a new school. The school was run by the Haberdashers, the school badge being their crest, until 1954 when it was taken over by Monmouthshire County Council as a Grammar School under the 1944 Education Act. In 1958, boarding ceased at the school ending the distinction between "boarders" and "day boys". In 1980 the school became a comprehensive, shed the school badge and tie link to the Haberdashers, and, shock horror, became co-ed!