Classes for Partially Deaf and Partially Blind, New Street Mission Hall, New Street (1914–1927)

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Classes for Partially Deaf and Partially Blind, New Street Mission Hall, New Street (1914–1927)

Classes for Partially Deaf and Partially Blind school children were combined in 1914 when the Hannah More Pupil/Teacher Centre at Quakers Friars was abandoned in favour of another Quaker building, the New Street Mission Hall, New Street, in Old Market. Staff at the school included, from 1922 to 1929, the highly influential Miss Helen Virgo – Virgo is remembered as especially important to the history of Deaf education in Bristol, and helped influence the lowering of the school entry age for Deaf children (from 7 to 5) in the 1937 Education Act.

The New Street Mission Hall classes closed in 1927 when both the Partially Deaf and Partially Blind classes joined the profoundly Deaf and Blind at Moorfields School, in Russel Town Avenue. The building was taken over by the city council in 1929 and converted into flats; it is a listed building and remains externally as it was when it was a school in 1914.