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Looking back at former city school with photos
MEMORIES today from one of Worcestershire's best-known preparatory schools which is no more.
Generations of families sent their young children to Sunnyside School in Barbourne Terrace, Worcester, which specialised in the five to nine-year-old age bracket.
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Sadly, the prep school closed in 2005 despite valiant efforts by parents to keep it open although a day nursery section remains on the site and is run as part of Shooting Stars prep school was founded in 1914 by the redoubtable Muriel Tysoe who had her own particular educational methods.
Children who were good were 'sunflowers' while naughty ones were called 'dandelions' and had to go and stand by the radiator in the hall.
Miss Tysoe eventually retired in 1967 but her school was to continue for almost another 40 years with many famous names among its pupils, including MP Stephen Dorrell, Olympic showjumper Alison Dawes and star tennis player Jackie Pallister.
