Forgotten Schools of Weston

Photos curated by WHS archivist Martin Proctor.

The building was sold off after the construction of the King Street School in the 1890s, and became part of Longstaff's Pumpworks. This image was taken in the 1940s and was donated by Jim Coulter. It shows the former school as it looked after being 'decommissioned' as a school. Note the change in the windows to the left, and the addition of a window where the tablet had been.

Here are some students outside Weston's first public school, the Pro Bono Publico School. this image is dated circa 1890.

This photo is also dated circa 1890 outside the Pro Bono School, with Garnet Rowntree (on the right with his arms folded behind him) being the only student identified in the photo.

If you attended C.R. Marchant, no doubt you will have seen this tablet at some point. It's an artefact from Weston's first school house.

This is from whence the tablet came, and if you find that a hard pill to swallow, I should explain that this school, The Weston Common School (AKA the Pro Bono Publico, due to the motto seen on the tablet above the entrance) used to stand on Main Street North (Weston Road) near Coulter.

The Weston Common School (AKA the Pro Bono Publico, due to the motto seen on the tablet above the entrance) used to stand on Main Street North (Weston Road) near Coulter.

It's Fr. Martin Michael Johnson standing near the vestry of St. John's Church, which doubled as St. John's Separate School, both before and after the one room, and later 4 room schools were built. The door behind him is the entrance...

Some of you may be old enough to recall this building when it was the Shamrock Hotel, and possibly some of you will even recall when this used to be The Weston Hotel, but there was a time when this ediface also was used as a school....