The pupils were known as Back o' th' Church Dumplings
Built in 1829.
A plaque is inscribed
Miss Blackburn was the headmistress in 1951.
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The children were to chosen by the minister and churchwardens of
the time.
In 1866, the school was closed and the scholars went to Sowerby National School.
In time, the school became a secondary day school.
In 9th December 1904, it was reported that the Board of Education had
advised the governors to close the school at Christmas 1904 because
there were only a few free scholars now attending.
See
Paul Bairstow's Charity,
John Selwyn Rawson and
Sowerby Grammar School
Closed in 1???.
Part of the school became the village newsagent, and part became a
bus shelter.
In the 1970s, the bus shelter was converted into a private dwelling.
See
Higgin Lane Sunday School, Southowram
When Ripponden National School and other Sunday Schools opened in
the town, the school fell into disuse and was closed.
The building was converted into houses for the masters
It is recorded as an infants' school and could accommodate 23 pupils
[1871]
Recorded in the 19th century.
Lemuel Clayton was educated here
In 1895, an infants' school was built for 100 children.
Edward Akroyd was educated here
The money was to be used to buy land and the rent paid to the
schoolmaster to teach poor children to read English and to write
accounts.
The number of children was determined by the trustees and the
available funds.
In 1658, a farm and 14 acres of land was purchased in Gomersal.
A house for the master was built around 1790 at the expense of Mrs
Bold and Joshua Horton of Barkisland Hall.
In 1818, J. Baxter was master here.
In 1860, the school closed and new buildings were erected.
It reopened in March 1868
In 1845, Joshua Rouse advertised that he was receiving
pupils to be instructed in the usual branches of liberal education,
and that
Holden House, Barkisland was built as the master's house.
See
Barkisland Grammar School Pupils
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In 1851, the sisters are listed as
Scholars then at the school were
Francis A. Weddall of Selby [b 1838],
Ann Sugden of Bradford [b 1835],
and
Caroline Crossland of Halifax [b 1840]
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Question:
Does anyone know where the school was located?
Could it have been in Barkisland, near her brother's school?
They had the school and a small museum in a purpose-built building
behind their house at Lumbutts.
After William's death in 1851,
his wife Hannah was school mistress at the school,
his son Alfred Walter was schoolmaster,
and
his youngest son Albert Benjamin was school mistress's
assistant.
Luke Barker was a pupil here
for 10 poor children – 5 boys and 5 girls – with
If the school was not built in the specified time, the money was to
go to Ellen Newstead, George Newstead and his family,
and Betty Newstead.
George Newstead ran off with the money, and the new school was
built with the financial help of Sir Samuel Armytage and many
others.
The private school opened in 1741 in the upper rooms of the Sun Dial Inn.
The last headmaster was Isaac Heaton.
At this time, the school was known as Heaton's School.
When Isaac's son, David, was Brighouse postmaster, the
Post Office occupied rooms at the school.
The school closed in the 1860s
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Question:
Does anyone know where the Beech School was situated?
In 1816, Andrew Bell visited the school.
In the 1830s, it is frequently referred to simply as The National School, Halifax.
Masters & teachers at the School have included
It was reached by a long drive immediately south of Trinity Church.
In 1863, it became Holy Trinity Infants' School and Holy Trinity Girls' Junior School.
It closed on 8th September 1962 and the pupils moved to Savile Hall.
It was demolished shortly afterwards
It was known as the Bell School because of the bell on the
roof which was used to summon the pupils – and not because it was a
National School.
In 1786, the School was rebuilt.
During Rev Gaukroger's time, a gang of youths climbed on
to the roof during the night to ring the bell.
They dislodged the bell and it fell into a field behind the school.
It was not restored for several years.
See Northowram Church School
During Mr Wood's time, the school closed and the scholars
and staff moved to the Northowram Mechanics' Institute.
The building subsequently became the Northowram Club
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Officers of the School have included
In January 1914, they were at 17 Clare Road, Halifax
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to provide fresh air, good food, exercise, and medical attention for
delicate children with special needs.
Three schools are recorded: the special school, a residential school
and an open-air school.
Opened on 20th July 1908 in the grounds of Bermerside House.
In April 1911, Parkinson Lane Special School reopened here.
In 1911, the Oates family gave £11,000 in the memory of Edwin Oates to extend the school for handicapped children, and it was
given to the town in the same year.
In 1924, it moved to Quarry House School, Northowram.
It closed in 1966.
See
Arthur Donald Oates and
Oates Trust Fund
Around 1946, it moved to Bermondsey House, Savile Park.
Around 1961, as the school grew, it moved to The Gleddings and
the name was changed to The Gleddings School
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See
Bethel Methodist Church, Brighouse and
Central Methodist Chapel, Rydal Mount
A Roll of Honour is recorded for those who
served/fell in World War I
A second storey was added in 1878.
It was demolished in 1999.
See
Bethesda Methodist Sunday School Memorial
The School was below the main Chapel.
The building was also let as a day school
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Thomas Wright of Mulcture Hall, Halifax was a pupil at the
school, and in his autobiography he writes that the school was
Thomas Simpson taught Thomas
Rachel Lees was a schoolmistress here, and her son,
Thomas Wolstenholme was an assistant at the school.
Others at the school included Ann Beesley, aged 15, who was a
Governess, and pupils
See
Little Britain School, Ripponden
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During the ministry of Rev Joseph Hirst [1842-1870], the Church and
the School were enlarged.
Rev Roger Briggs was largely instrumental in the building the new
Church, rebuilding the schoolrooms [1902] and the Minister's House.
Around 1902, the School was let as a Board School.
It is now part of the Blackley Centre.
It stands next to the former farm building
It is now private dwellings
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He taught boys and girls
See
Blue Coat School Memorial,
Chamberlain's Charity,
Charity Schools,
Henry Douglas Gray,
Thomas Lister,
Arthur Thompson Longbotham and
John Selwyn Rawson
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See
National School,
Private Adventure School,
Provided School and
Voluntary School
See
Board School and
Bolton Brow Provided School
Reader Elizabeth Whitmarsh writes
See
John Holmes and
Mrs Winifred Williams
The Sunday School was recorded in 1803.
Thomas Sirett was schoolmaster here [1850].
A new School was built by C. F. L. Horsfall [1882-1883].
It opened on 16th May 1903.
Roger Burnett has his studio here.
See
Bolton Brow Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Sowerby Bridge,
Bolton Brow Wesleyan Sunday School Memorial and
Thomas Edward Whitehead
Susan Sykes studied reading, writing, arithmetic and geography
at his school
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The children of some local Quakers were educated here, including
Edward Whiteley Collinson
This and Queens Road Board School were the first to be established
by the Halifax School Board.
The average attendance was 519 [1881], and 456 [1882].
It accommodated around 950 pupils [1894].
It accommodated 359 boys, 288 girls and 254 infants [1911].
It accommodated 362 boys, 288 girls and 284 infants [1917]
Masters & teachers at the School have included
Built around 1865.
It accommodated 150 juniors and 82 infants [1936].
Closed in 197?.
It was superseded by 2 schools – Akroydon Infants' School and
Boothtown Junior & Infants' School.
The building became a language centre.
It is now apartments
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With Akroydon Infants' School, it superseded Boothtown County Primary School.
It merged with Akroydon Infants' School to become Rawson Junior, Infants' & Nursery School
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See
Queens Road Primary School
See
Salem Primitive Methodist Chapel, Knowlwood
Recorded in June 1896, when
Rev J. W. Sims preached a sermon at the anniversary of the
Sunday School.
This was the last Sunday school anniversary to be held in the old
Chapel before the new Chapel was built in 1897.
See
Methodist New Connexion and
John Wadsworth
Aka New Bowling Green Board School.
Built by the School Board on the site of Bowling Green School.
2 foundation stones were laid in October 1881.
It opened on 24th February 1882.
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Charity school established in 1805 by the Overseers of the Poor in
Stainland.
Around 1841, the site was sold for £1.
Bowling Green Junior & Infant School was built on the site by the
local School Board
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In 1904, it became Bradshaw Council School
It accommodated 345 pupils [1911]
It accommodated 104 mixed & infants [1936].
In 1884, it passed to Sowerby School Board.
See
Scout Road Board School, Mytholmroyd
Back o' th' Church School, Elland Ref 18-B273 Bacup Road Congregational School, Todmorden Ref 18-878
This School was built by Public Subscription AD 1829 for
Children of all Religious Denominations
Bailiff Bridge British School Ref 18-225 Bailiff Bridge Junior & Infants' School Ref 18-87 
Bailiff Bridge School Ref 18-196 Bairstow's: Paul Bairstow's Endowed School Ref 18-363
whose parents should not be worth more than £50
Bank Top School, Southowram Ref 18-19 Bank Top Sunday School, Ripponden Ref 18-431
lying between the Rochdale-Elland turnpike and Old Bank
Banks's School, Halifax Ref 18-559 Bar Street Day School, Shade Ref 18-315 Barker's School, Halifax Ref 18-502 Barkisland Church of England (VA) Primary School Ref 18-88 Barkisland Endowed School Ref 18-402 Barkisland Free School Ref 18-63
give and bequeath the sum of two hundred pounds current English money
unto the use of a school master, for teaching such poor children of
the township of Barkisland, whose parents are, or shall not be
able, to bring them up in learning
Barkisland Grammar School Ref 18-246
Masters at the School have included:
the School has been 14 years successfully conducted by the present
master
Bates's School, Halifax Ref 18-399 Bates's School, Halifax Ref 18-512 Bates's School, Halifax Ref 18-550 Bates's School, Halifax Ref 18-773
Battinson Road Board School, Halifax Ref 18-4141 Baxter's: Miss Baxter's School Ref 18-908
This & associated entries use material contributed by Anne KirkerBayes School, Lumbutts Ref 18-800 Bean Memorial School, Triangle Ref 18-728 Beattie's School, Elland Ref 18-860 Bedford's: Mary Bedford's Charity School Ref 18-10
on the condition that the inhabitants of Brighouse did erect a
charity school with good stone and timber within 12 months of her
[death]
a Schoolmaster of sober life
Beech Hill Junior & Infant School, Halifax Ref 18-89 Beech School, Sowerby Bridge Ref 18-377
Bell School, Harrison Road Ref 18-B56
Bell School, Northowram Ref 18-B55
Masters at the School have included:
Bellian School Ref 18-375 
Benham's Ladies' Boarding School, Halifax Ref 18-234 Berlitz School of Languages, Halifax Ref 18-308
Bermerside Convalescent Home & School Ref 18-B102
for children of weak constitution and intellect
Bermondsey House School, Halifax Ref 18-731 Bethel Methodist New Connexion Schools, Brighouse Ref 18-817 Bethel Sunday School, Brighouse Ref 18-750 Bethel Sunday School, Lineholme Ref 18-463 Bethel United Methodist Sunday School, Ovenden Ref 18-823 Bethesda Methodist Sunday School, Elland Ref 18-900 Bethesda Primitive Methodist School, Southowram Ref 18-924 Binns's: Natty Binns's School Ref 18-445
a kind of free school, a little higher in the street than our Hall on
the same side
Birch Tree House School, Halifax Ref 18-251 Birchcliffe Baptist Sunday School, Hebden Bridge Ref 18-836 Biscombe's School, Halifax Ref 18-513 Black Field House School, Soyland Ref 18-840
Blackley Baptist School Ref 18-919
Blackley Provided School Ref 18-601 Blackwood Hall School, Luddendenfoot Ref 18-899
Blanchard's School, Halifax Ref 18-538 Blanchard's School, Halifax Ref 18-848 Bland's Academy Ref 18-383
to dance with taste and to acquire and dispense good manners
Bland's Dancing School Ref 18-509 Blue Coat School & Almshouses Ref 18-B129
Board School Ref 18-268
Bolton Brow Board School Ref 18-914 Bolton Brow Junior & Infant School Ref 18-90
Every year on Empire Day, the 24th May – at Bolton Brow
Infants' school assembly – we would all sing:
Sadly I do not remember any more verses.
Every morning, we would have to wave our handkerchiefs in the air and
if we did not have one we would be sent to the outside lavatories to
get pieces of toilet tissue instead.
This was very hard paper with NOW WASH YOUR HANDS
PLEASE printed on it in green ink.
Then we would queue up to get our teaspoon of cod liver oil before
going to class.
As handkerchiefs were expensive and hard to find, many of us had
home-made ones made from flour bags, bleached and hemmed to make them
last
We have come to school this morning,
It's the 24th May
And we are celebrating This our Empire Day
Bolton Brow Provided School Ref 18-468 Bolton Brow Wesleyan Sunday School Ref 18-438
Bolton's School, Halifax Ref 18-863 Bonegate Academy, Brighouse Ref 18-127 Booth Town Evening School Ref 18-619 Booth Town Grammar School Ref 18-738 Bootham School, York Ref 18-913 
This & associated entries use material contributed by Kate FirthBoothtown Board School Ref 18-54
Boothtown County Primary School Ref 18-55
Boothtown Junior & Infants' School Ref 18-767
Borough Council Manual Instruction for Teachers Ref 18-644 Bottomley Farm Sunday School, Walsden Ref 18-434 Bottomley Lane Foot School, Walsden Ref 18-216 
Bottomley's School, Halifax Ref 18-864 Bottoms Primitive Methodist Sunday School, Walsden Ref 18-959 Bottoms School, Walsden Ref 18-302
Boulderclough New Connexion Sunday School Ref 18-918 Bowling Green Evening Continuation School Ref 18-B1017 Bowling Green Junior & Infant School Ref 18-91 Bowling Green School, Stainland Ref 18-279
Bradshaw Board School Ref 18-316 Bradshaw Council School Ref 18-317 Bradshaw Evening School Ref 18-620 Bradshaw Junior & Infant School Ref 18-865
Bradshaw Primary School Ref 18-92
Bradshaw Sunday School Ref 18-839
Brailsford's School, Halifax Ref 18-539 Brearley Baptist Church Day School Ref 18-475 Brearley's School, Halifax Ref 18-514