The new school stands on Waterloo Road, Brighouse.
It was built in 1971 on the site of the former playing fields at
Waterloo, Brighouse
Masters & teachers at the School have included
In the early 1900s, it was known as St Andrew's Girls' School.
It reverted to the present name in 1932.
In the Church Graveyard, there is
a headstone
in memory of
Question:
Does anyone know who these young people were, and how they died so
close together?
John Halliday was headmaster here [18??] when it was the
largest school in Halifax.
It accommodated 428 pupils [1871].
It accommodated 753 pupils [1917].
Masters & teachers at the School have included
See
Maurice Jagger and
St Augustine's Church
Recorded around 1900, when
James Brennan was educated here.
See
St Bernard's Catholic Church, Halifax
In 2006, and again in 2012, an Ofsted report commented that the
school was inadequate.
In August 2013, it is to close and merge with Holy Trinity Academy.
Aka St Chad's Day School.
Built in 1895, it was the first place of worship for the established
church to serve the expanding area of Hove Edge which had
become a part of the Borough of Brighouse.
The land was given by the owners of the Sunderland Estate.
The corner-stones were laid on 28th April 1894, by a group including
The building was designed by George Hepworth.
The School opened on 5th May 1895.
The cost was £3,000.
On Sundays, it also served as the Mission Church for Hove Edge until
1912 when it was superseded by St Chad's Church, Hove Edge.
It remained largely unchanged until after WW2, and two extensions
were built in the next 30 years.
A further extension was added in 2004.
It is still used as a primary school.
See
Rev Reginald Plumer Stedman
Recorded in 1946 and 1959
In 1897, it was described as Mixed, and had an Infants'
Department
This was the infant and primary school, and also the Sunday school
for St George's Church.
It has been converted into apartments.
See
Rowland Siddall
Masters & teachers at the School have included
In 1886, it was superseded by Akroyd Place School
St James's National School is recorded at Cross Hills and also
at St James's Road, Halifax [1850, 1881].
Masters & teachers at the School have included
Aka Queen Street School.
The school for St James's Church, Brighouse.
Built at a cost of £1200 – following the 1870 Education
Act – to supplement St Martin's National School and to serve
east Brighouse.
It opened in 1877.
It burnt down on
18th November 1901.
Money was raised and the School was rebuilt, and reopened on 30th
August 1902.
It accommodated 224 boys & girls and 120 infants.
It closed in the 1970s for road improvements.
The pupils moved to St Andrew's Infants' School.
The property was later occupied by a company providing audio-visual
and services.
The car park of Tesco's supermarket now stands on the site.
See
Brighouse Cricket Club,
Brighouse Lads' Club and
George Crowther
See
Leonard Goring
From 1926, it has been used as a Sunday School.
Recorded in 1851
The school was superseded by Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School
The building was originally St John's Mission Church, Hebden Bridge.
See
St John's Church, Stubbing
See
St John's Mission Church, Rastrick and
St John the Divine, Rastrick
It was built in 18??.
The building was used at the Vicarage until the 1860s,
when it was superseded by Woodville
The School closed in 19??.
It is now called St John's Centre and is used as a community
centre and a theatre
It is still standing [2011] though disused
It accommodated 335 adults [1917].
On 4th September 1961, a new school opened here.
See
St Joseph's Catholic Church, Brighouse
On 10th August 1872, John Lister – who had provided the
site – laid the foundation stone for the school
The school was built at a cost of £3,000.
Opened 25th November 1873.
It accommodated 195 boys, 250 girls and 227 infants [1917].
Around 1895, the Sisters of the Cross & Passion, from the
convent in Horley Green, assumed responsibility for the
School.
On
22nd July 1913,
His Eminence Cardinal Logue visited the School.
In 1929, it was superseded by Portland Road Board School which took
the name of St Joseph's.
See
Thomas Bernard Mulroy and
Poems in Peace & War
Question:
Does anyone know whether this and St Luke's School, Norland are the
same School?
It became a day school in 1872.
A stone was laid on 29th October 1894 for extensions to the building.
It was extended in 2003
It became Norland Church of England Junior & Infant School.
See
James Joseph Aves and
St Luke's Non-Provided Schools, Norland
See
Brighouse Adult Education Centre and
St Martin's National School
In 1850, there were extensions.
In 1861, there were further extensions to include accommodation for
the master.
The master's house is now the administrative block.
Other additions were made in 1864 and 1899.
It accommodated 410 boys & girls and 220 infants [1917].
It became a Church of England Junior and Senior School.
In 1932, there were recommendations that it become a Senior School.
In 1952, it became a controlled school, paid for by the County
authority.
In 1958, it was known as St Martin's Secondary Modern School.
The school closed in 1969.
In 1972, it became Brighouse Adult Education Centre.
See
Mrs Sunderland
Clarence Street / Gibbet Street.
Designed by J. F. Walsh.
A boys', girls' and infants' school built in 1846.
This had 4 teachers and could accommodate 60 scholars.
It could accommodate 310 pupils [1871].
Masters & teachers at the School have included
A Church of England National School built in September 1870 at
Blackwood Hall.
The cost of construction was £1,971.
It accommodated 238 children [1895].
Church services were held here until the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Luddendenfoot was built.
The School closed about 1993.
The building has been converted to housing
In 1904, it was superseded by Shade Council School but continued as
a Sunday School.
It was demolished when the area was redeveloped around 1973
Originally a National School.
Dated 1850.
See
Ann Crabtree's School and
St Mary's Church, Cottonstones
In 1871, Mrs Michael Stocks, of Upper Shibden Hall, laid
the corner stone of new day and Sunday Schools in Lister Lane,
Halifax in connection with St Mary's Church.
Michael Stocks gave £1,000 towards the construction of
the Schools and the Parsonage
It accommodated 745 pupils,
boys, girls and infants [1917]
In 197?, Rastrick Parish Centre was built on the site
Recorded on 22nd October 1897, when
a new subscription clock, in honour of Queen Victoria's Golden
Jubilee, was set in motion by Mrs John Culpan
Closed in 19??.
The staff and pupils moved to St Patrick's, Hullen Edge.
See
St Patrick's Church, West Vale
Masters & teachers at the School have included
It became a board school.
It accommodated around 450 pupils [1894]
Opened in 1914 to serve St Paul's Methodist Chapel.
Designed by A. G. Sladdin.
It was built by Fearnley Brothers on the site of their yard.
In 1938, it was used as Borough Magistrates Court.
From 1949, when the Chapel closed, it was used solely as the Council
property.
The Magistrates Court here closed on 30th December 1992.
There were proposals to build a supermarket, but covenants on the
building prevented the sale of alcohol.
It was subsequently used by the Salvation Army
Aka St Peter's School, Sowerby.
The school was built in 1859.
It was enlarged later.
It accommodated 308 children.
Recorded in 1917.
In Summer 2002, the school merged with Newlands to become
Sowerby Village CE (VC) Primary School
See
St Peter's Church of England (VA) Infant School, Sowerby
Masters & teachers at the School have included
Opened on 7th January 1864.
A night school was held for pupils aged 20 and over.
A boys', girls' and infants' school.
It accommodated 370 pupils [1871].
It became a board school.
The average attendance was 232 [1881], and 208 [1882].
It accommodated around 450 pupils [1894].
See
St Thomas the Apostle, Claremount
On 13th February 1915, the first sod was cut and people cut further
sods for a fee of 2/6d for each sod they cut.
On 29th May 1915, a stone laying service was held and people could
lay their own stones, paying
1/- for a brick, 2/6d for a wall stone, £1 for a small window
cill and £5 for a large cill.
The Sunday School opened on 9th September 1916
On 21st July 1850, Rev Thomas White Ridley spoke at a fund-raising
event for the Sunday School.
The new School was designed by John Dearden.
On 14th September 1857, Frank Crossley laid the foundation stone
for the new School.
Beneath the stone was a time capsule, a bottle containing
By 1870, Salem school was so full that a branch church and school in
Hanson Lane was started
It accommodated 268 pupils [1911].
It accommodated 173 boys & girls and 95 infants [1917]
Stands behind St Andrew's Methodist Church.
Aka Stafford Square School, Halifax
A board school built in 1898.
It accommodated 230 pupils [1911].
It accommodated 145 boys & girls and 85 infants [1917].
It was transferred from Northowram School Board to Halifax in 1900.
Now known as Salterlee Primary School
Recorded in 1881 and 1891,
when it was at Grandsmere Place, and
Miss Mary Roebuck was schoolmistress.
Also at the school were
Grace A. Glyde [1856-19??], drawing teacher;
Isabella Robertson [1862-19??], English teacher;
Gertrude Ballinger [1865-19??], music mistress;
Jessie Ramsay [1865-19??] English teacher;
Phillipine Feig [1870-19??] teacher of languages.
There were also
11 pupils [aged between 10 and 17], and 3 servants
It is recorded as an infants' school and could accommodate 10 pupils
[1871]
In 1912, the Church bought and renovated the School at a cost of
£300.
The church created a Primary Department at a further cost of
£60.
In 1951, the building was sold to Messrs Cartwright for use as
a wholesale confectionery warehouse.
It now [2004] appears to be derelict.
ERECTED BY THE INCUMBENT SOUTHOWRAM
AND TEACHERS OF ST ANNE'S SABBATH SCHOOL
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the result of the pious and zealous labours of the Incumbent of St James's
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a new Sunday School has been opened at this place, attached to the
New Connexion interest in Halifax