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Seaholm: My Old High School — It’s Not Stuck in the Twentieth Century

November 18, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A couple dozen of us took a tour of Birmingham High School, aka Seaholm High, during our reunion weekend in October. It looks like quite of few additions have been made to the building. I thought the designers did quite a good job of being faithful to the Fifties architecture.

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