The former School at Blackmore (Essex) - pictured on old postcard - went up for sale this week. Situated in the centre of the village in the conservation area, the School is marketed as being suitable for conversion to a house (subject to planning). The Board School was built in 1877 and closed as a school in 1970 when new facilities were opened in Nine Ashes Road. Since then it has been the Blackmore Youth Centre, closing in 2003. The modern Library building, attached to the premises, was also controversially closed in the autumn of that year. Recently the building has been used by the village's Friday Club and Parish Church Sunday School (Climbers and Explorers), but now the latter has transferred to the Village Hall. The village has plans to convert a former Squah Court at the Village Hall.
A history of the School will appear on this 'blog' in due course. Do you have any memories? Share them here.
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