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This is the upper end of Parsonage Street in 1906. On the left is the Vicarage School founded in 1861 by the Reverend Charles Burney as a gift to his wife. It was demolished in 1923 and St. Andrew's church hall was built immediately in front of where it stood. The large double-fronted house on the right was once the 'Queens Head' public house, but around the 1900's it had become a girls' school run by Mrs. Frances Frye. The school closed in 1909 after the opening of the Girls' Grammar School in the Colchester Road.