Most were transferred to the Royal Merchant Navy School at Bearwood, fees, etc. Also by 1903, most of the northern section of Bearwood Ward had also been developed. Bearwood Baptist Church is on the corner of Bearwood Road and Rawlings Road. The school moved into Bearwood in 1922. It moved again to Bearwood House near Wokingham in 1921. In 1965/66 the school changed its name to Bearwood College. Sandon Road has two church buildings which are locally associated with Bearwood. At the northern end of the Bearwood area is Shireland Collegiate Academy, on Waterloo Road. The Bearwood Street Festival launched in 2017 and reprised in 2019. The company then expanded outside Birmingham, and moved its headquarters to Bearwood in Smethwick. The planning of Bearwood followed very closely the details of Kerr's book. Bearwood Chapel is set back from Bearwood Road opposite the Bearwood Primary School. Dale was born in Hammersmith, London and attended Bearwood College in Berkshire. Bearwood Primary School appointed Tony O'Connor as head teacher in 1967. In 1967 Bearwood Primary School appointed Tony O'Connor as head teacher.