The school was built for the Romford School Board in 1883² and opened a year later.  It was enlarged in 1890 and 1903, and a handicraft centre was opened in 1913.   The mixed department was reorganized for juniors in 1930 and amalgamated with the infants department in 1952.³

Albert Road was renamed Manor school in 1956,³ and moved to new buildings in Shaftesbury Road in 1979.⁴

Step forwards in time to see the same view in September 2000.

¹ Reproduced from Romford, Collier Row & Gidea Park, plate 34, by kind permission of the author.
² Commemoration stone.
³ Reproduced from Victoria History of the County of Essex, volume VII, page 93, by kind permission of the General Editor.
⁴ Manor Primary school.