I am hoping that someone out there may have ancestors who attended this school, or know something about its history. I think it may actually have come into being some time in the early 1890s, although the earliest reference to it that I have found is in 1902 when architect William Emery Robarts erected a school building at the above address for Louisa Clarissa Beart. Prior to that, the school may have been run from Louisa's widowed mother's home, who I believe Louisa and a younger sister were living with. I would dearly love to know if it was run solely as a private school for young ladies, or if it became a government one prior to 1911. (I ask because the principal of the school, Miss Louisa Clarissa Beart, retired in 1911 and was in receipt of a pension from the Natal Education Department when she died in 1945.) By 1912 the school housed infant girls and boys and was known as Florida Road Government School; it was the forerunner of what eventually became Gordon Road Girls' School.
