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Independent school in East Acton, London, England

The Barbara Speake Stage School was opened on 10 February 1945 as an independent school, and was initially set up as a dancing school, by the founding principal Miss Barbara Speake, MBE,^[2] and was located in East Acton, London.

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The school was fee-paying but non-selective in its admissions.^[3]

The school closed in 2020.^[1]

History

In 1961, June Collins (mother of drummer/singer Phil Collins) joined forces with Barbara Speake to become the school's agent. Collins supplied the entertainment industry with children for every major production in the West End, TV and Theatre.

Due to the success of both the agency and dancing school, in 1963 the decision was made to turn their successes in to a full-time educational establishment for the performing arts. Collins discovered Jack Wild playing football and decided that he was a child with potential, and persuaded his family t Barbara Fagan Speake: books, biography, latest update XIRUN