BOLITHO ALUMNI

Their ghosts were very much in my mind when I had a chance to visit the old school in October of 2021. St. Clare's became the Bolitho school and tried to stagger on. But for a variety of reasons the enterprise fell apart. Nothing much has happened at the school since it closed. It seems to me unlikely that any developer would get planning permission to knock down the whole building even though the height of the ceilings at least in the ground floor rooms will cause problems for any conversion. The most likely end game will probably be flats, made out of the existing building, and further building in the extensive grounds. The pictures I took show the old front door,

Primary location: United Kingdom