Duddeston Manor School

The New School, built on the red-gra pitch and the tennis courts. Red-gra is Red Gravel, a gravel football pitch, not much fun if you were brought down, possibly the only part of the school that nobody was sad to see go. Photo taken from the top floor of the stairwell.

This was the sign you would have seen when leaving the school grounds via the front entrance ----------------- see next photo.

Thank you for visiting Heartlands Academy – nah, it’s Duddy Manor, and it always will be to me, even the sign at the Great Francis Street entrance says so. Duddeston Manor Bi-Lateral School (even when they dropped the Bi-Lateral bit) will always be known as Duddy (or Duddy Manor), so for a bit of fun with the previous photo I 'Photoshopped' some graffiti to express my feelings.

Looking along Wardlow Road from Great Francis Street. Image Date: 27/05/2012

The Front of the new school, with Duddy Manor in the background. It doesn't look too bad from this angle, I suppose it's not what a building looks like that's important, it's what happens inside that matters.

A small part of the 'Big Building' is yet to be razed. Image Date: 11/01/2013

The Final Crunch - The last part of Duddy to be demolished, this photo was taken 10 minutes after the previous image. Image Date: 11/01/2013

The sports ground for the new school now occupies the ground where Duddy once stood. Image Date: 17/05/2013

The new school is built on the Red-Gra Pitch and Tennis Courts. - Image from Google Earth (Reproduced and Edited Without Permission). Image Date: 14/04/2007