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Stoke Damerel Primary School is situated in Collingwood Road, Stoke, Plymouth. Stoke Board School The School was originally located on the corner of Church Street and Somerset Place, Stoke, Devonport. On August 18th 1874 work was completed on the Stoke Board School in Church Street, Stoke, Devonport. The architects were Messrs Moorshead and Ching and the contractor was Mr W Finch. The School opened on January 11th 1875 and could accommodate 540 children. It covered an area of 5,232 square feet and the total cost of the site, buildings and architects' commission was £3,753 6s 3d, or £6 19s 0d per child. It was thus an expensive school to construct compared to others in the area. By 1889 the average attendance was 139 boys, 130 girls and 149 infants under Master, Mr William Ambrose; Mistress, Miss Emily Martin and Infants' Mistress, Miss Fanny Louisa Lukey. In 1901, just before the Devonport School Board was abolished, there were 267 boys, 207 girls and 200 infants attending classes under Mr John Webber, Miss Kate Blewett and Mrs Louisa Murray. Somerset Place School In 1927, under its new title, it became a mixed Junior School (7 to 11-year-olds), with the 460 pupils taking their lessons in ten classrooms. The Head Master was Mr W Crocker. Stoke Damerel Primary School Stoke Damerel Primary School was still in the old Board School premises in Somerset Place. Twenty years later, in 1947, the name was changed yet again, to Stoke Damerel Primary School, thus accepting the younger 5 and 6-year-old children. Mrs G K Poole was the Headmsitress of the junior school in 1955 and Mrs P M Slade the Headmistress of the infant school. In 1975 the Head Master of the Junior school was Mr D J Stinchcombe and the Head Mistress of the Infant School was Mrs N Thomas. Stoke Damerel Primary School closed their old premises at Easter 1988 and moved in to new premises in Collingwood Road. Since 1990 the old school premises have been the Stoke Damerel Business Centre.
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