In 1898, a report about the difficulties experienced in the first
year of its existence said
It accommodated 190 pupils [1912].
It accommodated 133 juniors [1936].
It became known as Caddy Field Junior and Infants' School.
Closed in the late 1980s.
It became a referral unit for disruptive children, known as the
Beaconsfield Centre.
Around 2004, it was converted into flats and known
as Beaconsfield.
The refurbishment won a Halifax Civic Society award in 2006
for its sympathetic redevelopment.
See
Southowram Bank Board School
The seminary closed around 1880
Opened in January 1950 as an experiment in secondary education.
The school was the first comprehensive school in the West
Riding, and took all children from the age of 11, without
the 11-plus examination.
In August 1986, arsonists caused damage to the school estimated at
£125,000.
In March 2017, the governing bodies of Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School and Calder High School agreed to amalgamate.
Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School closed in July 2017, and
relocated to new premises on the site of Calder High School.
See
Calder High School War Memorials and
Pace Egg play
A boarding academy
Pupils and staff here included
See
Child workers at I. & I. Calvert's mills,
Calvert Orphans' Home,
I. & I. Calvert and
Cockroft's School
Head Master: John Naughton
Resident Assistant Masters:
F. A. Drewe MA Caius College Cambridge
Scholarships amounting to £70 are offered for competition in
November 1880
There were 8 pupils and 3 servants
Designed by Sharp & Waller.
This was built as a new Board School and it opened on 31st July 1912
to supersede New Road Board School.
It cost £5,000 to build.
It accommodated 350 boys & girls and 160 infants.
Plans to have a swimming pool in the basement were abandoned.
It closed about 1977 when the school transferred to a new building along the lane.
It was later to a retirement home. Carr Green Nursing Home
In 1886, the old school was bought for use as a Sunday school for
Bethel Chapel, Shelf using money borrowed from the Methodist New Connexion.
It is currently [2008] used as a workshop
Around 1850, he ran a school at Church Street, Halifax
On 15th March 1913, the New Elementary School opened, to
replace the old school at Priestwell.
The total cost was £7,650.
It was formally opened in 1916.
It accommodated 516 adults
A new Infants' School was built in 1984 at a cost of £370,000.
See
Stubbings Board School, Hebden Bridge
There was a fire at the School on
12th December 1928
The Blue Coat School and Waterhouse Charity of 1636, included
an educational provision.
From 1699, the Church of England raised money for such schools.
Local benefactors also gave money for the schools.
Some local examples of charity schools include
Charity schools were often recognised by the colour of their uniform.
A charity boy was a student in such a school
Their (possible) aunts, Margaret and Mary, were at the
same address [1841]
The opening was celebrated by an oratorio and concert, at which
several local artistes – including singers
Mrs Boocock,
Mrs Sunderland,
Mr Sutcliffe,
Mr Womersley,
and orchestra-leader Joseph Henry Frobisher – performed.
The school and other property were inundated in floods in August
1855.
See
Christ Church Sunday School Roll of Honour
In the 1950s, it was popularly known as
Halifax Secondary Modern School,
The Modern,
and
Clare Hall Secondary Modern School.
From 19??, it merged with Haugh Shaw School to become Halifax High School.
When Halifax High School moved to Wellesley Park in 2004, there
were plans to convert the building to private apartments – although
with the heritage-based thinking that makes Halifax great, Allen
Clegg, Independent Councillor for Warley, suggested the
building be demolished and the whole site turned into a car park.
In December 2008, proposals were announced to convert the building
into apartments.
See
Plebeians Jazz Club, Halifax and
Trinity Court, Halifax
It accommodated 98 pupils [1817]
It accommodated 300 pupils.
It was named for Cliffe Hill Mansion.
The first Head teachers were Mrs McBurney and Deputy
Head Mr Crossland.
They won the InterSchools Cricket Shield [1957] and
the InterSchools Football Cup [1957-1958].
Halifax Golf Club was originally located on the site.
The school was established in 1720 to teach
The school was held in a house on the Armytage estate.
In 1729, Sir John Armytage provided the master's salary from
rents of lands in Clifton.
In 1810, it became Clifton Grammar School.
In 1818, Rev Thomas Atkinson rented part of the school for use as a
Sunday School.
See
Holly Bank, Clifton and
Rev John Ryley
In 1833, the 95 boys attending the school included 65 boarders and 18
poor boys who were paid for by Sir George Armytage.
See
Sir John Armytage and
Holly Bank, Clifton
Ellis Wilkinson was the first master at the school.
It closed in 1876.
The building was taken over by Clifton Mechanics Institute
It closed in 19??
It is now a private house
The building became known as Rose Cottage
See
Colden Water,
Alice Longstaff and
Miss Oxley
From the 19th century, teenage factory workers were sent
to Continuation Schools for further education.
These schools were set up by a large factory or a group of smaller
factories.
Typically, the workers attended one day a week for about 4 years.
The system continued into the 1940s and beyond for apprentices whose
basic education was inadequate would attend one day a week.
Some local schools were
Bowling Green Evening Continuation School, Stainland,
Priestwell Evening Continuation School, Stansfield,
Robin Wood Evening Continuation School, Todmorden,
Sowerby Bridge Evening Continuation Schools and
Vale Evening Continuation School, Todmorden
The board school – designed by H. W. Booth – opened on 11th
April 1904, and replaced the Copley Factory School built by Edward Akroyd.
This was the last school built for the Halifax School Board.
The cost of the building was £8,500.
It accommodated 214 boys & girls and 88 infants
and 50 babies.
It accommodated 382 pupils [1911].
It accommodated 136 mixed & infants [1936].
The building was used by the Methodists for Sunday and weekday
evening services.
The school opened in 1849 as a part of Copley model village.
Edward Akroyd appointed Rev Thomas Markey as Curate for the
Copley Schools [1849-1851].
He was succeeded by Rev James Hope
In 1853, G. H. Gibson was in charge of the school.
In 1862, Rev J. G. Sedgwick was in charge of the school.
There were 233 pupils [including 212 half-timers] at the boys'
school, and 238 pupils [all half-timers] at the girls' school.
In 1899, the school was taken over by Halifax School Board and
became a Board School.
When the school proved to be too expensive to maintain, a new
school was built and opened in 1904.
The factory school was demolished in the 1970s
A board school recorded in 1889.
It accommodated 453 children [1917]
It superseded the school at Mount Zion Methodist Church, Cornholme
See
William Cowsill
A private school run by Ann Crabtree at her home in Foxen Lane
Head, Mill Bank around 1850.
The scholars included children from Lumb Mill and
Kebroyd Mills.
It was superseded by St Mary's National School
Miss Elizabeth Crabtree had a school at Hebden Villas, Hangingroyd
Lane, Hebden Bridge [1905]
In March 2017, the governing bodies of Cragg Vale Junior & Infant
School and Calder High School agreed to amalgamate.
The School closed in July 2017, and relocated to new premises on the
site of Calder High School
On 12th May 1879, a school was started in the Sunday School of
Crimsworth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
There were 80 scholars.
By the end of the year, this number had risen to 104.
The new school opened on 22nd March 1880.
Adam Gillibrand taught here.
The school was called Crimsworth Board School between 1879 and
1904, and Crimsworth Council School between 1904 and 1948.
It closed in May 1948.
It was demolished in the 1970s.
In the early 1980s, two bungalows
were built using the stone of the demolished school.
The school house remains as a private dwelling
It has been converted into flats
It was used as a Sunday School and as a day school.
There were 2 rooms, one for boys and one for girls.
By 1833, it had become too small and larger premises were required.
Sowerby Bridge National School was built and the children moved to
the new building at the bottom of Tuel Lane in 1837
See
Southowram National School
The building served as the jail – the stocks are still
there – and the top room was Cross Stone School and the
schoolmaster's house.
A plaque inscribed:
To endeavour to instruct some of the ill-fed children is simply a
waste of money and energy.
As a matter of mere economy it would pay better to feed them, wash
them and let them sleep.
However it is our business to educate and not to feed them so we do
the best we can with the material at our command
placed great emphasis on the moral and religious interests and the
social happiness of their young ladies
High Class School, Carlton House, Halifax
W. H. F. Alexander BA London University
H. W. Preston London University
Masters at the School have included:
12 children from Clifton and 6 from Hartshead
Masters at the School have included:
Masters at the School have included:
Masters at the School have included:
