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TAMAR SECONDARY SCHOOL When the pupils of Tamar Central School for Boys returned to Plymouth from Truro in 1945 they were housed in the Mount Street Primary School. So cramped were the conditions that those pupils who had stayed in Plymouth at the Emergency Central school in Cobourg Street had to remain in exile until 1946. In order to comply with the new educational classifications introduced by the Education Act 1944, Tamar Central School for Boys became Tamar Secondary School for Boys in 1946 when the School was transferred from Mount Street to their own premises in the former Junior Technical School in Durnford Street, Stonehouse. That move was only temporary, for in 1947 the School moved to the pre-war premises in the Stoke Military Hospital while the junior ones were quickly moved yet again to what was known as the Ernesettle Transit School, leaving the School once again split in two. This situation was to continue until November 1956, when the junior pupils finally rejoined the senior ones on the Stoke site. In the meantime, Mr J E Ellis, FRGS, who had taken over the job as Headmaster at Truro during the Second World War, died suddenly in November 1950. Mr J P Robb MA BSc replaced him in September 1951. Unbelievably the official opening of Tamar Secondary School for Boys did not take place until the first day of the school year in 1963. The Minister of Education, the Right Honourable Sir Edward Boyle, performed the ceremony, which actually involved 15 schools. When girls were permitted to join the School in 1972 it became simply Tamar Secondary School. At the instigation of the Headmaster, Mr F Hill, Tamar Secondary School became Tamar High School in 1981.
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