Dudley Ryder School Sandon, photograph taken August 1981 one month following the closure of the school. Founded in 1824 & opened 1825 the school originally had individual classrooms for the girls & boys with the headmaster's dwelling in-between the two classrooms.

Building's left to right: boy's toilets, headmaster's toilet, school pigsty used during the early days of the school for the children to raise their annual pig.

Main building, single story school canteen added 1895, boy's classroom later juniors, headmaster's dwelling later caretaker's dwelling, girl's classroom later infants.

Extreme right: girl's toilets, headmistress toilet, tool store & chicken coop used during the early days of the school.

During the early days of the school the garden was for the headmaster, the children's garden was situated where the Sandon police station was built next to the parish room and was very ornate with flower beds & vegetable patches. It was lined with mature trees along what is now the A51.

Simon Shelley