Holt Street School Site Under Inspection: The opposition on the part of a committee of Birmingham ratepayers to the proposal for the City Education Committee to erect a school for crippled and defective children in Holt Street, and the petition which they sent the Board of Education, have stimulated that authority to order an inquiry into the Circumstances … (continues) … At the Conference: Later in the morning, at the conference in Edmund Street, Dr. Eichholz took the chair, and round the table were Mr. Green, Inspector of Schools for the district, Mr. G. Kenrick, Chairman of the Education Committee, Dr. Simon, the committee’s medical officer, Mr. Charles Leedham-Green of the Children’s Hospital, Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Bethune Baker, Mr. J. A. Palmer, secretary to the committee, the Rev. T. Y. Bass, Mr. Gocher and Mr. Peatland … … Unless the action of the Board of Education, to whom Dr. Eichholz will report, makes it unnecessary, we are told it is in contemplation that a resolution will be moved by a prominent member of the city council at the July meeting rescinding what has already been done in the matter. …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949