Question:
Does anyone know the name of the school?
Recorded in 1881, when
Albert Samuel White was here.
In 1897, it was described as Mixed.
It accommodated 240 pupils [1911].
It accommodated 191 pupils [1917].
It was transferred from Warley School Board to Halifax in 1900
An advertisement in November 1880 announced the forthcoming opening
of her school saying
and that further particulars could be had from
In 1905, Miss Walker had a school at 87 Savile Park Road, Halifax
This national school was established on 29th May 1847, St
Michael's Day.
It was completed on Whit-Tuesday, 13th June 1848.
It was transferred to Walsden Junior School on account of
structural difficulties.
The building is now [2012] boarded up
Walsden Church of England VC Infant School was transferred here on
account of structural difficulties
She employed 4 staff.
She may have also employed 4 children, paying them with an education,
free board and lodging.
Recorded in 1861, 1871 and 1881.
It accommodated around 20 teenage girls.
In 1871, the staff were
In 1881, the staff were
By 1865, it had become Cusworth's School
Agnes, daughter of Mrs Susan Sunderland, was here [1851]
See
Rev Thomas Sutcliffe,
Edward Wainhouse and
Warley Exhibition Foundation
It accommodated 400 boys, 400 girls and 311 infants [1911].
It accommodated 400 boys, 400 girls and 332 infants [1917].
See
Greenwood Gibson and
Warley Road School Baths
It became too small and was replaced by Warley Town School
[1894]
It accommodated 178 pupils [1894].
In 1897, it was described as Mixed.
It accommodated 215 pupils [1911].
It accommodated 144 boys & girls and 71 infants [1917].
It was transferred from Warley School Board to Halifax in 1903.
See
Alfred Hunsworth
The Day School was
built around 1860 whilst Rev William Hewgill was Minister at
Warley Congregational Church.
It was constructed at a cost of £300.
A gallery was built [1866].
Senior scholars' classrooms were built [1869].
It accommodated around 200 pupils [1875].
An Infants' room was built [1877].
A ladies' boarding school run by S. & J. Watkinson is recorded
at New Road [1822].
Around 1860, they moved to Carlton Street
She and her sister Hannah Webster had a ladies' boarding
school at Ward's Hall, Halifax [1845, 1851]
See
Holme House Day Nursery, Lightcliffe and
Ogden Lane Day Nursery, Rastrick
William Smith was a pupil here.
See
Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School, Greetland
See
Wesleyan Methodist Day School, Greetland
On 6th September 1924, a new chapel and school
was opened
The new School was built in 1897.
The new building comprised a large assembly room with a balcony, 11
classrooms, and a new vestry for the vicar.
The building cost was £2,300.
4 memorial stones for the new building were laid on 10th July 1897.
Each stone had a time capsule.
See
West End Congregational School Memorial
for a limited number of young gentlemen.
An announcement of the school's reopening on 23rd January 1860, said
The principles on which the establishment is conducted are those
which experience has proved to be the best fitted to secure a healthy
state of the moral feelings, with intellectual vigour.
At the end of each term, the pupils are subjected to a rigorous
examination, conducted on the plan adopted by the Society of Arts and
the London University
Pupils at the School have included
Aka West Vale Primary School, West Vale Council School.
A board school built in 1878 for 600 pupils.
It stands on the main road near St John's Church.
Masters & teachers at the School have included
In 1871, it was listed with
Whitaker was listed as Professor of music at Trinity Road,
Halifax [1874]
In the 19th century, there was a school for boys at White Windows, Sowerby.
Recorded in 1865 and 1873,
when C. J. Crawshaw was principal
After 1894, Siddal Board School was enlarged and a site for Caddy Field Board School acquired, so that Whitegate Board School
and Southowram Bank Board School could be vacated.
In April 2011, it became Whitehill Community Academy
William Law may also have taught at the school
In August 2013, thirty former pupils received an out-of-court
settlement for physical and sexual abuse committed at the school in
the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
Charity school established by Sir William Staines.
Around 1787, he conveyed a building which stood on land known as
Longlands, Southowram to be used as a schoolhouse.
The children were to be taught reading, writing, accounts and
The trustees included
John Campenott,
William Freeman and
Samuel Hall.
There is a tablet inscribed
Train up a child in the way he should go
and when he is old he will not depart from it
This School and House, was Built at the charitable Benevolence of Mr
William Staines of LONDON
Anno Domini 1787
This tablet is now at Lady Royd, Brookfoot.
By 1857, the school and master's house had fallen into disrepair, and
there were no funds to improve them.
In 1860, the property was sold and the money
See
Wilson Marshall
Recorded in 1871,
when Elizabeth Clough, future wife of Paul Speak was a
boarder.
Recorded in 1881,
when Miss Mary E. Wilson was schoolmistress.
Also at the school were governesses:
Miss Elizabeth D. Maw [aged 27] from the Channel Islands
and
Miss Elizabeth P. Jones [19] from Redruth Cornwall,
and boarders:
Mary B. Tomlinson [17] from Wakefield,
Elizabeth Benton [17] from Wakefield,
Maud Hampson [aged 16] from Stockport,
Mary E. Titterington [15] from Halifax,
Lucy Sutcliffe [11] from Halifax,
and
Eleanor Sutcliffe [10] from Ripon
and 3 female domestic servants
The buildings were becoming delapidated by the end of the 20th
century.
In November 1995, pupils and parents went to Downing Street to
protest about delays in building a new school to replace their aging
buildings.
In 1997, a brand new school was opened nearby.
The old school was demolished and the site is now a housing estate.
The school house was retained.
As a typically nonsense right-on gesture, the school
management didn't want the classes of the new school to be
hierarchical and decided to choose the countries of the European
Union as the names for the classes.
See
Law Quarry, Southowram,
Southowram National School,
Southowram Nursery School,
Southowram Methodist Chapel, Chapel Lane,
Southowram Wesleyan Chapel and
Yew House Quarry, Southowram
The building was abandoned after being badly damaged by the explosion
at Low Moor Munitions Company on
21st August 1916
to be a school for the education of children of the labouring and
manufacturing and other poorer classes of the district
for the systematic preparation of boys for Grammar and Public schools
Late of Kinder-Garden High School
Miss Walker, Knutsford, Cheshire
Masters at the School have included:
in one of the healthiest situations in the vicinity of Halifax
The school room, being lofty and thoroughly ventilated, is well
adapted to secure health and comfort in study.
In addition to the open play ground, a large covered area, supplied
with gymnastic apparatus, affords facilities for drilling and
exercise in all weather.
Masters at the School have included:
and scholars
such exercises as may be conducive for the improvement of the children
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom
applied to the advancement of the education of suitably-qualified
children residing in Southowram
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Malcolm Bull 2017 /
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