Leeds Lost Schools

Hats Off · Post by **Hats Off** » Sat 01 Dec, 2007 12:44 am

LS1 wrote: I'm sure it is still called Chapeltown, they Poluice still refer to it as that - Not that I am in contact with the police on a regular basis! Nah mate, it's called Stainbeck Police Station, they changed the name a while back. I live only five minutes from it and pass it most days.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sat 01 Dec, 2007 6:25 pm

Hats Off wrote: LS1 wrote: I'm sure it is still called Chapeltown, they Poluice still refer to it as that - Not that I am in contact with the police on a regular basis! Nah mate, it's called Stainbeck Police Station, they changed the name a while back. I live only five minutes from it and pass it most days. You are right I notice on my way back from Town yesterday. i guess old habits die hard!

skippy · Post by **skippy** » Mon 03 Dec, 2007 3:34 pm

skippy wrote: hi my old school was low road primary on low road in hunslet it was knocked down and re-built again on balmoral rd ( i think that is the right name ) i left there in 1958 a life time ago would love to hear from my dear friend joan cross if she is out there !!!!! hi to everyone just to say that i found my dear friend joan cross i wrote a letter to y e p and it was printed on the 13th of dec. on the sunday i had a phone call from joan so many thanks to the y e p !!!!

LeeRatbag · Post by **LeeRatbag** » Mon 03 Dec, 2007 4:09 pm

MsJ2uk wrote: ,I went to Matthew Murray. I left in 1986. I'd have been there when you were Ian R P. We must have been there at the same time then...I left in '87, but I did a year of 6th Form (cracked under the strain half way through my A-levels and left to get a job). They're currently knocking down my old middle school too (Belle Isle Middle, later became Merlyn Rees High).

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Tue 04 Dec, 2007 11:13 pm

I might have asked this already, but can anyone tell me what the development is on Foxwood schools playing fields?

munslowr · Post by **munslowr** » Sat 12 Jan, 2008 6:56 am

Footy wrote: Anyone out there who went to St Benedicts RC...? Could hardly be classed as an 'old' school. I'll bet there are not many people who see their school built and then demolished in their life span.It was on the Leeds Bradford road opposite a pub called the British Oak. The site is now a housing estate, the pub is still there.R.I.P. Mr McCann the best teacher there. (in my days)Also the 'Good Shepherd' Bramley Town End building still there but no longer a school.And lastly, from me don't want to hogg on my 1st post..!Alan Bennets old school at Lawnswood, was called Leeds Modern in his day. Now gone and a rather tacky modern replacement stands on the site. IMHO of course.! also went to St Benedicts left in 68 Mr McCann best teacher i had

munslowr · Post by **munslowr** » Sat 12 Jan, 2008 7:10 am

stevief wrote: Footy wrote: Anyone out there who went to St Benedicts RC...? Could hardly be classed as an 'old' school. I'll bet there are not many people who see their school built and then demolished in their life span.It was on the Leeds Bradford road opposite a pub called the British Oak. The site is now a housing estate, the pub is still there.R.I.P. Mr McCann the best teacher there. (in my days)Also the 'Good Shepherd' Bramley Town End building still there but no longer a school.And lastly, from me don't want to hogg on my 1st post..!Alan Bennets old school at Lawnswood, was called Leeds Modern in his day. Now gone and a rather tacky modern replacement stands on the site. IMHO of course.! Hi footy,I must have missed this post.I'm an old boy('66-'71)didn't realise Mr McCann had died,I saw running a stall on Otley market many years after leaving school.Can remember Campbell(head),Fisher(dep.head),Wilcock,Grennan,Nixon,Melia.When were you there? Left St Benedicts in 68 sorry to hear its gone remember Campbell Fisher and McCann sorry to hear he's gone any one no of contact list for old students my sister and I both attended family emigrated to Aus in 69 regards

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 12 Jan, 2008 6:34 pm

munslowr you could try <http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk>. Free to browse but you have to pay a registration fee to contact former schoolmates

fred1935 · Post by **fred1935** » Sun 13 Jan, 2008 1:26 am

Here is one of my old school, Armley National C of E school.This shows the "Modern" Playground, in the 1940's it was clay and broken stone. oh and a water tank. The School is long gone, houses stand there now I believe. I lived opposite the bottom school gates on Chapel Lane, Of course I remember the other schools in Armley and knew lads and lasses who went to them.

mutikonka · Post by **mutikonka** » Sun 13 Jan, 2008 11:28 am

I suppose St Thomas Aquinas Grammar School (STAGS as we called it) in Meanwood qualifies as a lost school. It was only built in the 1960s and lasted less than 20 years - disappearing in 1979 when it was amalgamated with the next door John Bosco school to create Cardinal Heenan High. The old school buildings on Tongue Lane have since been demolished and a whole new school built.