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Barrowford Board School - 1882 (from a newspaper photograph). The school
then was held in the Congregational chapel on Church Street (now demolished).

Back Row - L to R: Maggie Bannister - Janie Atkinson - S. Brown - Annie Nelson -Ivan Pate -
Miss Nellie Lord (Teacher and daughter of Doctor Lord) - Maggie Atkinson - Willie Pickover - Willie Jackson
Middle Row - L to R: Sam Proctor - Ruth Nutter - Lizzie Duckworth - Willie Robinson - Stanley Ashworth - Dina Stow - Fred Firman
Front Row - L to R: Nellie Atkinson - Vera Stansfield - Priscilla Catlow - Janie Nelson

St. Thomas’ Church School - 1890s

St. Thomas’ Church School - 1904

Barrowford Board School. This appears to be taken outside the
Congregational Chapel and therefore would date the photograph to before 1897

Infants 1902

Board School - now the Central Council School on Rushton Street.
The teacher on the left appears to be the headmaster, Fred Bannister

Central School - roughly the same period as the photograph above. Fred Bannister on left?

Infants again taken in same position as above photograph

Central School - 1932-33.
Albert Morris is second from left on front row and Mr. Finch, the science master, is on extreme left

Thanks to www.briercliffesociety and Marie Normansel for contributing photographs.
Also to the late Albert Morris, Nelson Leader, Nelson Library .

Earlier Photographs 1930s -1960s

Barrowford Senior School teachers (1950s?)

An early view of Damhead School, Roughlee

Reedyford Wesleyan School - c1904

Central School - 1948-49.
Miss Hird’s class - Photograph courtesy of Melvyn Hirst (3rd from left on back row)

Central School - 1949-50.
Photograph courtesy of Melvyn Hirst. Melvyn (2nd from right on front row) lived on Grove Street
and went on to become a senior lecturer at Warwick University

Barrowford School Leavers 1948

Back row L to R: Tom Cummings - Bill Peel - ? - Alan Atkinson - Brian Taylor - Michael Holgate - Ronnie Goodall - Gerald Lund - Edward Quinn - Jack Grimshaw

Middle row L to R: Geoffrey Sidebottom - Lawrence Barnes - Raymond Whittaker - ? - Bobby Stephenson - Alan Preston - ? - Arthur Spencer - ? - ? -

Front row L to R: Barbara Nutter - Margaret Watkins - Patsy Tredigo - Audrey Jaques - Dorothy Johnson - Freda Brown - Jean Totty - Kathleen Simpson - Barbara Hobson - Maureen Brown (now Swain) - Marjorie Bailey - Marjorie Yoxall - Mildred Dearden - Margaret Mount - Vanda Haighton - Gillian Timperley

Photograph and information courtesy of Robert Stephenson
Additional information courtesy of Maureen Swain (nee Brown)