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The house in the center of the picture below was no.12 Carlton Street which was just to the left of the Coopers Arms. My father was born less than 100 meters from this house in 1902.

  Below is a map of the area

Winterstoke girls school just before it was converted into apartments.

In 1997, one of our members, Pam Woodburn, wrote a great little book entitled "Only Our Best Was Good Enough" all about Locking Road Junior School - it goes up to about 1950.  Winterstoke Girls' School was on the same site and many of the girls would have gone on to Winterstoke School.  Pam may know whether there are any copies still available and may possibly know where to find photographs.

I think this answers your question - from the Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 23 October 1951

 FIREMAN RESCUED HOTEL MAID

Hung by fingers from window

A Weston-super-Mare fireman rescued a maid in a fire which badly damaged the four-storey Clevedon Hotel, Weston-super- Mare yesterday. The brigade found the roof and top floor blazing fiercely and hanging by her finger tips from the fourth floor window ledge, 40 feet above the ground, was Miss Jean Lewis (16), the maid. She had been trapped in her room. Her cries for help had roused the occupants the hotel. Climbing a pump escape. Leading Fireman B. Marsh brought the girl to the ground. She was taken to hospital suffering from shock and bums around both eyes.

We have had several enquiries about this but unfortunately have not been able to satisfactorily answer the question.  As it was a privately owned school it seems that the records were never deposited in an Archive.

This photograph of the school at the very top of Arundel Road on the corner with Cecil Road was taken pre-war. At about this time the school was owned and run by Donald Hughes MILLER who later married Evelyn JACKSON- BARSTOW - taking the name of MILLER-BARSTOW.  In a Street Directory D MILLER is listed at Kingsholme, 17 Arundell Road, but in 1940 he had sold it to James Harold MOSEY and bought Etonhurst another well known private school in Weston.

There is a photograph of the Kingsholme school staff and pupils included on the website of King's School Sherborne because apparently when Kingsholme was sold to J H MOSEY it moved to Sherborne House, Gloucestershire and became King's School.

Some names for the period you are interested in are mentioned on the web site for which I've given the link above.

As with many streets in Weston, Carlton Street was renumbered in about 1908 so the numbers today do not match the those of 1891.  Added to which much of the Carlton area was demolished in the 1950s and 60s to make way for Dophin Square which is itself currently undergoing another redevelopment.  Thanks are due to David Tyler who has compared the numbering of Carlton Street in street directories and has decided that No 12 Carlton Street in 1891 was on the left hand side just before the Coopers Arms.

No 12 Carlton Street is not in this photo it would have been to the left of the Cooper's Arms and you can just see the corner of its garden wall across the lane.

When this photo was shown at a recent meeting it was discovered that the niece of the woman standing in the front garden was there that evening!