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Location: Laindon Park School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 15/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon Park School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 25/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Built in 1876 and opened in 1877, Laindon Park is the oldest
remaining school in the Laindon/Langdon Hills area of Basildon. The school opened as Laindon Board School and became Laindon Council School when Board schools were abolished under the Education Act 1902. It was later renamed St. Nicholas Lane Council School and later still St. Nicholas Lane County Primary after the road it stands in. When Laindon was incorporated into the 'new town' of Basildon in 1949 the Basildon Development Corporation developed plans for the area that would eventually include a new housing estate to the south of Nicholas Church in an area designated as Lee Chapel North. St. Nicholas Lane was extended in a straight line through the former Church Avenue and the left turn at the crossroads with Markhams Chase was renamed Church Hill. Presumably as the school would no longer be in St. Nicholas Lane it was renamed Laindon Park County Primary in 1957, which it remains today. A small school had previously existed close by in the St. Nicholas Church annexe. The last schoolmaster James Hornsby, who also lived above the schoolhouse, taught there for 48 years. Text written 2002 with revisions 2006-2007,2010. Copyright © 2002-2007,2010 Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. |
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