15th-century school among sites added to Historic England’s heritage at risk list

Old grammar school in Kings Norton and railway station in County Durham among new entries in annual register

In April 1913, two women broke into the 15th-century Old grammar school in Kings Norton near Birmingham with the intention of burning it to the ground in a protest for the cause of women’s suffrage.

After decades of campaigning for votes for women without success, the tactics of the suffrage movement had become more militant, including a campaign of arson attacks.