"MALVERN'S new County Primary School, The Grove, Pickersleigh Road, has just opened for its first term with an intake of 60 pupils, the first of what will in time become a maximum of 280," reported the Gazette 50 years ago.
"This is the third big day school to open in the town since the war, the others being the 100-pupil Chase County Secondary School and the Dyson Perrins C of E (Special Agreement) School in the Link.
"The Grove, which has been attractively as well as functionally designed by the County Architect, is set in fields with a westward panorama of the hills, it uses gay colours, quantities of glass and has three striking single-deck classrooms for infants, with continental-style blue-and-white sunblinds."
"When parents of the first pupils visited the school the other day, they were welcomed by the headmaster, Mr Edward Chapman."
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