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Park Modern Secondary School, Barking
In 1926 Park Selective Central School opened in Rosslyn Road. In 1939 the school was rebuilt as Park County Secondary (Modern) School, Sandringham Road later renamed Park Modern Seconday School and became Barking Abbey Comprehensive in 1970, merging with Barking Abbey Grammar School.

Brian O’Boyle remembers his time there fondly, he said: ““I was there from September 1945 until December 1949. “As I remember, it was a bit of a shock being a first year boy. We got chased all round the school and the local area by the senior boys until we were caught and initiated, which basically involved being given a good hiding. After a little while the novelty wore off and we were accepted. We had to wait 12 months before we got our chance to do some initiating of our own.

“There were two individual schools within the school, the boy’s school on one side of the main assembly hall, and the girl’s school on the other side. They were autonomous with there own Head and teaching staff. “The Headmaster at that time was Mr Easterby, we walked in fear of him. He retired or moved on in 1946 and was succeeded by a Mr. Davies “I recall that we had a French teacher named Bunty Offord who left to teach in America via an exchange programme, we got an American in exchange and we plagued him with questions about American Football and Baseball.”

As the school began to grow up so did the town around it. The school’s surroundings, which had been largely rural with fields and farmland, was becoming increasingly residential. Changes were also occurring inside the school with the appointment of a new Headmaster. Derek Almond, 62, Secretary of Dagenham and Redbridge FC, attended the school from 1954 -59, he said: “I have a lot of fond memories of Park Modern and I enjoyed my time there. I remember distinctly that when I joined it was a football school but that all changed when we got a new headmaster called BA Clements. He was a former rugby player at Oxford University and we were told that we were not going to play football anymore and instead we would start playing rugby. “We had a new teacher for rugby, Mr Jones, and I remember his first rugby lesson. He told us that rugby wasn’t a dangerous sport as long as everyone tackled properly and then he picked two boys out of the group as an example that the game was perfectly safe. He got one of the boys to tackle the other and we heard a screech as the boy being tackled dislocated his shoulder, a fine example that was!” “There were strict rules about keeping the boys and girls separate and we were not allowed to talk to each other. Only boys in their last year at the school could talk to the girls and that was only if they bumped into them in the library.” The boundary between the sexes had been partially withered away by the time Brian Poole and Graham Scott, founder members of The Tremoloes, attended the school. The two would go on to dominate the charts in the 60’s with hits such as Do you Love Me Twist & Shout, Candy Man, and Someone Someone. This success was very much to the liking of their former headmaster as former student Alan Wood recalls. Alan Wood, said: “I attended the school from 1965 to 1970 just after Brian Poole and Graham Scott. Mr Clements was very proud of The Tremoloes and would often talk about how happy he was with how well they were doing. “When I was at the school it was a mixed school, although the girls and boys had separate playgrounds. Girls did Domestic Science while the boys did either woodwork or metal work. “I was part of a very rare treat at the school when I went on a class trip to Morrocco, Spain, and Portugal. We sailed on the last ever outing of the MS Devonia which was known as the HMS Devonshire in the war. “One of the most memorable events was the day the decision was announced that the school was going comprehensive. Mr Clements was upset and we all tried to march out of school to the Town Hall as a protest on his behalf. He stopped us before we got to the end of Sandringham Road.” “I left Park Modern the same time as the Headmaster. It was the term after I left that the school became a comprehensive school, joining with Barking Abbey.

The school is now exclusively know as Barking Abbey Comprehensive School and caters for approximately 1650 pupils per year. In 1997 it was among the first six schools to be awarded Specialist Sports College status.

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