Questions

1.
 In what year was our school opened?
2.
 How do you know that Joseph Chamberlain did not visit the school?
3.
 Who was the first pupil to be enrolled here?
4.
 In what way was the school different in 1906 from now?
5.
 How have the Grammar School buildings changed since then?
6.
 How has our part of City Road changed?
7.
 Who was the first Headmaster of George Dixon Elementary School?
8.
 Who was Joseph Chamberlain?
9.
 Why was he being honoured in 1906?
10.
 Why was he specially pleased to visit our school?
11.
 Why did Williams not want to spend five years here?
12.
 Why was George Dixon honoured by Birmingham?
13.
 Who began secondary education in Birmingham? Where?
14.
 Where was the first school named after George Dixon?
15.
 Why is City Road so called?
16.
 Who was the first Freeman of Birmingham?
17.
 What reminds us that our schools at first had another name?
18.
 Was the a good name, geographically speaking?
19.
 Which parish was our school in 64 years ago?
20.
 Which parish is it in now?
21.
 When was Summerfield Park opened?
22.
 When did it become its present size, if the last enlargement was two years after the demolition of the house?
23.
 When was City Road School opened?


1903 Education Committee formed. Tramway Companies taken over. Borough of Aston created.

1904 Elan Valley Water Scheme completed, City supplied.

1905 Austin Factory started at Longbridge. Birmingham Diocese established, St. Philip's as pro-Cathedral.

1909 Quinton became part of Birmingham.

1911 Greater Birmingham formed by the addition to the City of Aston Borough; Handsworth; Erdington; Kings Norton & Northfield (part) Urban Districts; and Yardley Rural District: acreage of 30,100, making a total of 43,600 within the new boundaries.

1912 First Town Planning Scheme. Safeguarding of open spaces.

1916 Municipal Bank founded. City bombed by Zeppelins.

1921 Population of Sheldon 451

1931 Population of Sheldon 526
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