RYLAND MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF ART
The West Bromwich Institute on Lodge Street was opened in 1886. Art classes were organised into a school of art, which, following the Technical Instruction Act of 1891, became the responsibility of the town council, the school becoming the Municipal School of Art. In 1902 the art school was transferred from the Institute to the new Ryland Memorial School of Art and Crafts, built on an adjoining site. In 1969 the Ryland Memorial School merged with three other colleges to form the West Bromwich College of Commerce and Technology. The building found use as a school and then as the West Bromwich campus of Sandwell College. It is now home to the British Muslim School. Suffolk artists who studied at the Ryland Memorial School of Art include Harold Barklam.