In 1911, Shropshire County Council had a new school built, intended specifically for secondary education; it became the "Coalbrookdale Secondary School".
On the 11th of September, of that year, the school took in its first pupils though it wasn't until November that it was officially opened.
Kelly’s Directory of Shropshire, for 1913 gives the following information about the school:-
County High School, erected in 1911, for 75 boys & 75 girls; average attendance, 60 boys & 60 girls; Maurice Jones, M.A., head master; Miss A. Hurst B.A.R.U.I., head mistress; F. H. Potts, clerk to the governors & correspondent.
The High School closed in 1963/64, with the building being taken over, in 1965, by Madeley Secondary Modern School, which had been, opreviously, located at the top of Madeley Bank. This, incidentally, was a few minutes walk from my grandparents' house, at 22, Wrekin View, but I don't suppose anyone's really interested in that fact!
Later still, it became the "Abraham Darby Comprehensive School" and is to-day, the "Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge (C of E) Primary School".
The "Coalbrookdale High School Old Students'Association" was formally wound up on 31st December, 2011, just over a hundred years after it was built.
When the school closed, the Committee, of which Norman Angell was the chairman, and the Members, realised that there would be a limit to how long the Association could keep going with no "new" blood to join and the relatively recent decision was made to end it as close to the date on which the school had been built.
