St. Andrew's School
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Located at the junction of Stonefield Road and Nelson Road, this school was founded in the mid-to-late 1800s with the completion of the housing on Stonefield Road backing on to what was then known as St Andrews Road (now Queens Road).
The school remained in use until the late 1950s, managing to remain open to pupils after suffering bomb-damage during World War 2 when a bomb crashed into the playground in September 1940 (most likely on the 22nd of September) leading to a partial collapse of the retaining wall facing onto the pavement. This ultimately caused a cascade of damage leading to the school's closure.
After the school buildings were vacated, an auction house, Hastings Auction Mart, moved in to part of the building for a period; the rest of the buildings gradually decaying further, followed by a carpet warehouse in the 1950s (Ronnies - the proprietor Mr. Easton living in one of the end buildings with the Allen family in the opposite end building). The remaining portion then utilised first as the Full Gospel Church in the 1960s, then as a Greek Orthodox church during the mid 1970s. The final occupiers for a short period were a language school. Eventually the site was fully refurbished to become 8 houses during the late 1980s.
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St Andrews School post WW2
