atkin Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Just registered with the Sheffield Forum. Are there any ex pupils of All Saints C of E School (Pitsmoor) 1947 - 1953, and Grange Grammar School 1953 - 1958. Having left Sheffield in 1965, can anyone tell me what has happened to these schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pressy Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 All Saints on Sutherland Street was demolished, along with the church and the houses in the slum clearance in the very early 70s. Only a few houses remain ..everything else was flattened. My mum was at All Saints for a few months in the early 50s & so was my unclefor a while longer(I think) Name Goodwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazel Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 A friend of mine was at Grange Grammar School at those times named Deidre, not sure whether it was called Hurlfield in those days though. hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpm Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Just registered with the Sheffield Forum. Are there any ex pupils of All Saints C of E School (Pitsmoor) 1947 - 1953, and Grange Grammar School 1953 - 1958. Having left Sheffield in 1965, can anyone tell me what has happened to these schools. I have been involved in transcribing the All Saints Junior school admission registers on the Sheffield Indexers site- on http://sheff-indexers.thewholeshebang.org/ We can only go up to about 70 years ago so we finished about 1932. All my family - mum,dad, uncles etc went there between 1920 and 1932. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheShe Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I was at Grange grammar school till about 57/58. When I first went it was Hurlfield and changed it's name when the other Hurlfield was built. It's now Abbeydale Grange 6th form College I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atkin Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 Do you know what the original school is used for now? I think one of the buildings was called Holt House and I seem to remember that it was a lovely old building, but cold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAIRBOY Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 There are now some exclusive, private houses built on the land on Holt House Grove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheShe Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 There are now some exclusive, private houses built on the land on Holt House Grove. That's so sad. What about Grange House? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldgirl Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Just registered with the Sheffield Forum. Are there any ex pupils of All Saints C of E School (Pitsmoor) 1947 - 1953, and Grange Grammar School 1953 - 1958. Having left Sheffield in 1965, can anyone tell me what has happened to these schools. I went to Grange Grammar School for Girls from 1961 to 1968. As I left, the school finished as Grange Grammar and amalgamated with Abbeydale Girls and Abbeydale Boys schools to become Abbeydale Grange School, falling in line with the national policy of comprehensive education. While I was there the school was two old houses, Grange House and Holt House set in beautiful grounds a few hundred yards apart with prefabricated and brick buildings in between. The Hall/gymnasium was the brick building, completely detached from any other building meaning that on wet days school assembly was cancelled and prayers were held in the classrooms. The prefab buildings housed the dining hall, first year classrooms, art block, science labs, cookery and needlework rooms. Second and third years plus the lower sixth had their classrooms in Grange House and fourth and fifth years plus the upper sixth had rooms in Holt House. Also in Holt House was the music room and another art room. Just outside the entrance to Grange House was "The Yew Tree". Any girl who went to Grange should remember the yew tree, it was where you met up with friends at the end of the day or at any other time in between lessons! Both of the old house had big sweeping staircases and a set of narrow stairs, presumably the old servants stairs. To avoid accidents and congestion the rule was always "Up the back stairs - Down the main stairs". Woe betide any girl caught going the wrong way up or down a flight of stairs! I always wanted to slide down the bannister of the stairs in Holt House, but never got the courage. To slide down the bannisters in Grange would have been suicide as the headmistresses office was at the foot of these! Staff (I recall) Head Mistress - Miss Helen Rawlings Music - Miss Jackie Williams French - Miss Betty Rigby French - Miss Longmuir English - Miss Ward English - Miss Ruff Maths - Mrs Reynolds Maths - Mrs Evison Geography - Miss Elspeth Fyfe Geography - Mrs Perry History - Mrs Whitby History - Miss Sheila Truswell Domestic Science - Miss Secker Science - Mrs Hall Science - Miss Jenny Henderson German - Miss Harvatt Art - Mrs Senior PE - Mrs Greenwood PE - Mrs Robertson As I understand it now, Holt House has been pulled down (shame!) and new residential houses built. I wonder what happened to the ghost that reportedly walked through Holt House???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minimo Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 I went to Grange in 1958 for 3 months (moved to Bakewell) and again from 1960 to 1963 I recognise most of the names. Didn`t Miss Ward`s father marry another teacher so she ended up with a stepmother much younger than herself? Miss Fyfe had short red hair and was always immaculately made up. Was there a Miss Warrilow, I thought she took French, but memory could be letting me down. I do remember on my last day turning at the bottom of the drive and throwing my beret back toward the school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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