DO you have any memories of Brimscombe Polytechnic in the 1950s?

One of the nostalgia pictures this week shows the Poly by the canal.

Stroud Local History Society describes the Poly:

"Known locally as "Brimscombe Poly", this school began around 1888, at first and briefly in the Brimscombe Institute building, and then in the old canal warehouse building at Brimscombe Port.

After extensive rebuilding it was officially reopened in 1911, by the Duchess of Beaufort.

"In 1910, 329 students enrolled including both boys and girls.

The main subjects taught were woodwork, leatherwork, embroidery, art-needlework, arithmetic, book-keeping, office routine, shorthand, typewriting, science, cabinet making, metalwork, mechanical engineering and ornamental ironwork."

Thanks to the Facebook group Stroud Area Photographs and Cotswold Picture Postcards for their kind permission to publish these images.