St. Paul's Boys School Cup Winning Football Team, 1931

In April 1931, St Paul’s played Hounds Lane in the final of the Worcester Schools Football competition for the Price Cup. Neither school had won the cup before. The final resulted in a 1-all draw even with extra time, and a re-match was held a week or so later. St Paul’s won 2-1. The photograph is taken from a log book recording educational visits and general items of interest concerning St Paul’s Boys’ School from 1924 to 1931.

Compiled by one the schoolmasters, it is a unique item filled with newspaper cuttings, photographs, letters and programmes. The school occupied the former St Paul’s Church, built in the 1830s, after a new church was built in the 1880s. The rise of the suburban population and corresponding decline of the city centre’s population meant that the school closed at the end of the summer term in July 1970. It had just over 100 pupils aged 3 – 11, about a third of whom were in nursery class, as St Paul’s was one of the handful of schools that catered for children of this age in the city.