Children who go to St Margaret's Primary School are in house teams. The houses are named after famous historical people who are from Stoke Golding. The houses are called Barton, Firebrace, Baxter and Hodges.
The Barton family lived in Stoke Golding in the 12th and 13th Century. Thomas Barton owned land and houses in Stoke Golding and Hinckley.
Thomas Barton started a charity on 10th July 1400 . His charity helped to make proper roads out of the village which helped people to trade. Thomas Barton was a Christian man.
The Thomas Barton charity still helps people in the village today. You can see benches around the village that have been donated by the charity and it also helps children at St Margaret's.
The Baxter family and Reverend Disney helped to set up buildings for schooling and Sunday Schools on either side of High Street. They were used for children in the village until they became too small and a bigger school was built where it is today. Baxter Hall is still on High Street today, just in front of St Margaret's School.
Sir Henry Firebrace is a very famous person who lived in Stoke Golding. There is a white marble monument to him on the wall of the Lady Chapel inside St Margaret's Church.
Firebrace was born in Derby in 1619. He became friends with Charles I and later served Charles II. He was made a knight in 1685.
Firebrace married a lady called Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Dowell of Stoke Golding, in 1645.
In 1689 when he retired, he decided to live in Stoke Golding. His house, which was called the Old Hall, was a huge building standing opposite the church on what was a path to Dadlington. The house survived until 1850, when it was demolished by the Baxter family to make way for the Men’s Reading Room, which is now the school caretaker’s house attached to Baxter Hall.
Firebrace and his son Basil, must have loved Stoke Golding because when they died they left the village church lots of precious gifts in their wills.
Mistress Hester Hodges was the aunt of Sir Henry Firebrace.
On 12th September 1678 Mistress Hester Hodges gave money to start a free Grammar School in Stoke Golding, and for the maintenance of a schoolmaster.
A farm, cottages and land were purchased in Earl Shilton and a school house bought. This is the Old Grammar School on Station Road, Stoke Golding.
The school moved to new premises on High Street in 1866 and the Old Grammar School was let, becoming a private High School for girls before finally being sold by the trustees in 1952.