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Topic : silsden secondary school. |
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| lenny |
I would love to hear from any old pupils who attended silsden county secondary school from the year 1952-1957, I left in 1957 aged 15. The headmaster at that time was MrW.A.Brown. Leonard Green.(LEN) |
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| Peter |
This picture was taken in 1940  |
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| wahiba |
I am always amazed at what was Silsden based when the town was obviously smaller than it is now. Secondary School, Gas works, what else? Where was the secondary school? I assume it was closed in favour of Crosshills? Just curious. |
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| Dave |
It is now known as Hothfield Street Junior School. |
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| coby1 |
it was always known as the top school where children went after the nursery and airview |
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| alan |
For wahibas benefit there are now more kids in Silsden. The primary school kids now go to Aire View as infants and Horhfield when they are older. As for the gas works, that was in the days of town gas when it was generally made/or stored locally. |
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| Peter |
quoteI would love to hear from any old pupils who attended silsden county secondary school from the year 1952-1957, I left in 1957 aged 15. The headmaster at that time was MrW.A.Brown. Leonard Green.(LEN) I didn't mean to divert the thread but can you help Lenny |
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| excobbydaler |
I went to silsden secondary modern school but before your time ,When I went there the head master was Mr Claughton (pity he is not around today to sort them out ,even the girks were caned .Then we had one called masters and after him one called Leadbetter (the bedwetter) I remember the garden store which went full length of the school underneath and you had to crawl through a hole to get in there ,and inside it was full of plaster figures and fruit displays .and the last year we were there we were given COOKERY to do and the teacher was irish Miss Irwin, The art teacher was miss Holiday she was a big girl when she lent over you from the back you went deaf.kate horsfall was the history teacher a very sweet lady. Mr tindall was the science teacher ,mr dewhurst was woodwork and metalwork ,and barbra wilkinson was games mistressand not forgetting the winstanley sisters two lovely ladies , Good Times as though it was yesterday ,sorry to say its not, |
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| excobbydaler |
Its me again ,The place on the corner of the photo under the school was where the dinner ladies used to knock out all these weird dinners because we were still on rationing ,that was the canteen Then we had lunch in the big hall on the ground floor .and took it in turns to bedinner monitors. |
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| robin |
To pick up on Alan's comment (if that's not blasphemy) When I started school in 1957 there were 16 classes of pre-11+ children under the care of "Dame" Edith Clarke i.e. 2 at Nursery in Prince st, 6 in the main building, 4 in the wooden huts, known as the West Riding classrooms, 2 at Church and 2 at the methodists, twice each week the latter went to Aireview to attend Morning assembly, and each day those staying to dinner (we didn't have lunch back then) were taken by the teachers again to Aireview to eat and then walked back. From memory we were never less than 30 per class. Are there more now? |
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| alan |
Sorry Peter, know it's slightly off topic. But can anyone tell me the year Silsden kids started going to South Craven? Presume it was sometime in the sixties before Silsden was hijacked by Bradford? |
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| robin |
Silsden CHILDREN started attending South Craven in 1967, Hothfield Street, became the Silsden annex, all first year secondary pupils came to Silsden for their first year. Crosshills Children were bussed to Silsden, and Silsden Children to Crosshills. Silsden families were promised free bus travel by a well known and respected (by some) councillor, this was then withdrawn for many depending on distance. |
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| alan |
Where did kids go if they passed the 11+ ? |
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| Bob T |
Keighley grammer or keighley technical school |
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| alan |
They've gone now I presume Bob T, not renamed? |
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| Dave |
The Grammar school is now part of the college buildings at the top of Cavendish street. Map here www.kbgs.com/map1.gif Taken from this website www.kbgs.com/ |
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| alan |
Excellent Dave............... thanks....... |
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| victor |
If you passed the 11+ you either went to Keighley Girls Grammar School at Utley (which became a mixed comprehensive in 1967 and was renamed Greenhead)or Keighley Boys Grammar School. You did not need to pass the 11+ to go to the Technical College though some students may had done and opted to go there. |
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| Bob T |
Victor as i said you had a choice of the grammer schools or kly tech which was located down the street opposite spring gardens lane ,it was kly technical school not kly tech college |
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| Frozen Soup |
Well Bob T you did say: 'Keighley grammer or keighley technical school' No s on the end of grammer so its easy to assume you meant that there was only one grammar school. |
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| thudson |
does anyone remenber ken hudson,he went to aireview first school 1954,then on to secondry school 1962 or 1963 |
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| dogcatcher |
this post has been edited 2 time(s) its proper name was keighley secondary technical school at the bottom of strawberry st, which as bobt said was opposite the bottom of spring gardens lane,and u had to pass the 11+ to go here but on a lower mark than the higher ones that went to kly boys grammer(which was then at the mechanics that burnt down)then was rebuilt up oakworth rd or the girls went to the girls grammer school up greenhead lane which was later made a mixed school and called greenhead comprehensive school,as far as i remember 11+ failures went to highfield,parkwood or eastwood schools in kly |
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| coby1 |
people were not failures if they went to hothfield streat school.How many local firms are run by people who went to the keigley schools most of the joiners plumbers and sparkys went to silsden |
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| alan |
I think dogcatcher meant people who had failed the 11+, not failures in life!  |
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| katehardcastle |
My brother Terry was at Silsden Secondary School in the early 50's I have the project book he made when he went to camp at Pateley Bridge. Anyone else go there? I remember going on a coach from Elliot Street, with my mam and dad, to see him. |
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| lenny |
although i never went to the camp at pateley bridge several of my classmates did go. if my memory serves me correctly it was named bewerley park camp school. if this is correct my memory is better than i thought it was as i left silsden secondary school 52 years ago. |
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| Alan Grop |
Silsden should have a school for 11-16 year olds. Can you see it happening ? |
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| alan |
Why should it? 600+ kids from Silsden go to South Craven. That would be too few for a decent modern secondary in Silsden, that is unless you wanted to bus them in from other places? |
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| tolpuddle |
11 to 18 is 7 years. When I was at school there were three classes A, B and C with roughly 20 per per class, or 60 per year. Total between 400 - 500. I still have a couple of whole school photographs and if I can dig them out can physically count. If 600 is not enough for a secondary school what on earth is the ideal number these days? I would have thought around the 400/500 mark would be ideal. |
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| alan |
A modern secondary school needs to offer a wide range of courses, the size we would get in Silsden would not be able too. Why do we need one when there is a perfectly good one (built for Silsden kids) at South Craven that caters for 11-18? |
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| hat |
quotealthough i never went to the camp at pateley bridge several of my classmates did go. if my memory serves me correctly it was named bewerley park camp school. if this is correct my memory is better than i thought it was as i left silsden secondary school 52 years ago. i can remember going to bewerley park when i was at hothfield street in the seventies, i never realised it had been going that long. does anyone else remember going on local walks with the saturday club? we'd meet up either at the school or on bell square & walk to addingham moorside or round the reservoir or similar |
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