School (then Works) at 7 Victoria Street - opposite Jessop Hospital

[Richard Vessey]

The 1851 map shows the School with Portobello Tavern backing on to it, on the corner of Portobello and Victoria Street.

From White's in 1828 this was shown as a Ladies School (18 Portobello), then in 1833 Mary Ann Tozer (née Witton) was School Mistress there. In 1841 Mary Ann Tozer was running a Ladies Boarding & Day Seminary there (203 Bath Buildings) and she remained at No. 7 running a school until her death in 1869.

It is understood that she owned this building and shared it with her son, Edward Tozer (1820 -1890) before he married in 1852, who became managing director of Sanderson Brothers & Co. steel works, then went on to a partnership in Steel, Peech & Tozer steelworks.

On 1889 map, the Jessop Hospital had been built on the opposite side of Victorian Street to the school, and No. 7 had become Victoria Street Works (Curtain Rollers).

Does anyone have a photograph of the No. 7 Victoria Street premises as either a School or Works?