Margaret Tabor Girls' Secondary School (Braintree)
Panfield lane, Braintree, Essex

Badge as depicted in Bunty #133 [30 Jul 1960]



The school started life in the early part of the twentieth century on Panfield Lane. Nominally co-educational, girls and boys were separated; the school effectively was split into two parts. Later with the introduction of the 1944 Education Act the school opened as a newly established secondary modern school 3hyich later became a fully co-educational school. It was eventually renamed the Margaret Tabor Secondary Modern School. The Tabor part of the name derived from the then local and prominent Tabor family who were major woollen merchants in the 16th century. The family shield was used as the badge of the school. In September 1971 with the introduction of comprehensive education, the school was merged with the local grammar school to form The Tabor High School. he school replaced the Tabor High School as the secondary school for west Braintree and surrounding villages and the old Senior section site was demoilished in 2004.



1955 OS map showing the school.
(Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150806050903/https://www.taboracademy.co.uk/school/about-tabor/our-school/

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