West Bridgford County Secondary School.
Grammar school - The school used to be a grammar school and was then known as West Bridgford County Secondary School. It moved to the present buildings in 1938 and became The West Bridgford Grammar School in 1944. The school's original site was on Musters Road, which was occupied by the old Musters Medical Practice. In September 1938 the school moved to a newly constructed building adjoining Loughborough Road, which is now its main building.
Comprehensive school - It became West Bridgford Comprehensive in September 1969. It kept some of its old grammar school ethos long after it became a comprehensive: Latin and Classics were taught and rugby was given priority over football until the 1970s. Its catchment area was the east side of the old LNER railway line (now Green line nature reserve) in West Bridgford and included Ruddington. The building is next to the old Central College Nottingham building, which has been knocked down to make space for a new housing estate.
Academy -The school applied to be an Academy under the Academies Act 2010 and officially became an Academy at midnight on 31 March 2011. It allocates up to 10% of its places based on technological aptitude. Its admissions policy, however, is still as a Comprehensive and these places are allocated after offers have been made to those that live within the catchment area.
In March 2016 The West Bridgford School was recognised as being one of the top 100 non-selective state-funded schools in England.
West Bridgford Timeline around Musters Road
1675 (abt) Sir John Musters’s daughter-in-law Millicent Musters (nee Mundy) won the West Bridgford Estate playing cards with Henry Pierrepont, Marquess of Dorchester. Her son Mundy Musters Snr inherited both estates in 1697. 1827 Jack Musters became Lord of the Manor of West Bridgford. Jack had married Mary Chaworth, the heiress to the Annesley, Wiverton and Edwalton estates, in 1805.
1838 The tithe map showed that the Lordship of West Bridgford was 1078 acres, of which 985 acres were West Bridgford Estate land owned by the Lord of the Manor John Musters, 58 acres owned by Clifford Caunt of The Poplars Farm and 33 acres were glebe land, on permanent lease to the Rector of St Giles Church.
1849 John Chaworth Musters inherited the West Bridgford Estate on the death of his grandfather Jack Musters.
1851 Census shows 258 people living in 51 houses in West Bridgford. 1880 The first plots of West Bridgford Estate land are offered for housing development by John Chaworth Musters. 1881 Census showed 293 people living in 55 houses in West Bridgford.
1887 John Patricius Musters inherited the remains of the West Bridgford Estate on the death of his father.
1888 Musters Road Methodist Church first opened. 1889 (June) The Lordship of West Bridgford and the remaining estate lands were sold by John Patricius Musters to Col Horatio Davies of Wateringbury Place, Kent
1891 Census shows 2502 people living in 519 houses in West Bridgford. 1892 Eight almshouses were built by Mrs Catherine Peatfield on Rectory Road - where it crosses Musters Road, as a memorial to her late husband Rev John Peatfield, curate of St Giles.
1895 Musters Road Board School opened with E.J. Eley as headmaster. Its name was changed to Musters Road Higher Elementary School in 1902 and to West Bridgford County Secondary School in 1944. The school’s pupils were moved to the new comprehensive school in Loughborough Road in 1969. Its name was changed to West Bridgford Grammar School.
1899 West Bridgford Friary Congregational Church opened. 1901 Census shows 7018 people living in 1559 houses in West Bridgford. 1901 Friary Congregational Church opened at junction of Musters and Millicent Roads. 1902 George Road Council Primary School opened with infant and junior departments. 1903 First West Bridgford Fire Bigade was set up with a fire station at junction of Musters and Bridgford Roads.
1907 Musters Road Baptist Church opened. 1911 Census showed 11632 people living in 2864 houses in West Bridgford.
1931 Census shows 17821 people living in 5065 houses in West Bridgford.
1938 (November) West Bridgford County Secondary School pupils moved from Musters Road to a new building in Loughborough Road. After the 1944 Education Act1951 The new Musters Road Primary School admitted its first pupils. At the top part of Musters Road. Its name was changed to the Jesse Gray Primary School when it was officially opened in 1953.
1980 Musters Road Secondary School buildings demolished and West Bridgford Health Centre built in its place.