Staples Road School in Loughton c1908 (Image: Gary Stone)
Staples Road School, Loughton, c1908.
This was the first board school in Loughton and built initially for 197 boys back in 1887 at a cost of £6,000.
The site was then extended to include an infants school in 1891 and a girls school in 1911.
Today the school has up to 630 children.
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