Education

This page will probably be quite a busy one as it grows and will no doubt be sub-divided into various districts

CLECKHEATON

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory:
British Training Schools (for boys, girls & infants) - Market Place, Samuel Henry Clark, master; Miss Ellen Wood, mistress of the infants.
National Schools (for boys & girls) - Union Street, James Sparke, head master; John Bentley, second master: Miss Sarah Fox, mistress.
CURRY, Joseph, boys' grammar school, Bradford Road
OVEREND, Misses, ladies' day school, New Road Top
STEAD, John, boys & girls day school, Horncastle Lane

Heaton Avenue
21 Mar 1928 - Foundation stone for Heaton Avenue school, Cleckheaton laid by Sir James P Hinchliffe.
1 Mar 1929 - Official opening of the school by Lord Eustace Percy MP. Cost of the school and equipment over £12000.
1950s? - Headmaster: Mr Pickup?
Late 1960s? - Headmaster: Mr Charlesworth?
2016 - Heaton Avenue School, Cleckheaton demolished.

Moor Bottom (St. Luke's)
1862 - Moor Bottom School (St. Luke’s) was built
1885-6 - School enlarged
1927 - Headmaster: Joseph Holmes
1947 - Moor Bottom School, Cleckheaton (St. Luke’s) closed.

Moor End
26 Jun 1872 - Plans for a new school at Moorend were submitted to the Cleckheaton Local Board and approved.
19 Apr 1873 - Opening of the school which had cost about £1400 to build.
19 Nov 1914 - Death of Charles Henry Blamires. His gravestone at Whitechapel states he was headmaster at this location for 27 years.
1896-1916 - Headmistress: Miss Mary Drake (b. 18 Aug 1868, d. 20 May 1942)
1915? - Headmaster: T. Bairstow
1927 (also present in 1939) - Headmaster: Percy Haigh (b. 26 Mar 1882, d. 26 Mar 1953)
Mid 1940s? - Headmaster: John T Davies
Late 1950s+ - Headmaster: Mr Rex Squires
1960's - Headmaster: Mr Crook?

South Parade
Opened about 1896 at a cost of about £1,660 for 200 children
Early headmaster was Tom Ellis
1927 - Headmaster: Arnold S Rushworth
2 May 1929 - Foundation stone laid for the new South Parade School extension, Cleckheaton by R. M. Grylls.
10 Oct 1930 - A substantial extension to South Parade school, Cleckheaton officially opened by Sir John Simon. The cost of the works was around £16,000.
1930s - Headmaster - Hugh Patchett. Retired in 1946/7.
1950s? - Headmaster - Mr Elliott?
May 1962 - Ian M Harris appointed Headmaster

Whitcliffe Mount
5 Jun 1909 - Foundation stone laid for Whitcliffe Mount School, Cleckheaton by Mr J W Wadsworth, Chairman of the Governors.
15 Sep 1910 - Whitcliffe Mount School opens without a ceremony in respect of the untimely deaths of 2 of the main subscribers J W Wadsworth and Mrs Mowat.
22 Sep 1932 - The Bishop of Wakefield and Sir John Gunn Mowat dedicate a memorial window at Whitcliffe Mount School, Cleckheaton in memory of Herbert Ashman Clayborn, who had been a senior master at the school and then headmaster from 1914 to 1931.
1931-1935 - Headmaster: George Ducker (b. 6 Dec 1892, d. 16 Dec 1975) was a Captain in the army during WW1
1935-1942/3 - Headmaster: John Stanley Newby. (b. 22 Jun 1904, d. 19 Sep 1954)
1943 - Headmaster: Arthur Wilfred King. (b. 15 Dec 1907, d. 16 Sep 1974)
194? - Headmaster: Albert Morton. (b. 10 May 1909, d. 30 Jul 1971)
29 Jan 1950 - A plaque in memory of students and staff who fell during WW1 was unveiled in the school hall by Sir Alfred Law Mowat.
2018 - Whitcliffe Mount school (old building) demolished.

Whitcliffe Road
26 Mar 1888 - Plans for the new British School were approved by the Cleckheaton Local Board.
3 Jan 1889 - Whitcliffe Road British School, Cleckheaton opened. Architect Reuben Castle.
1907 - School enlarged
1927 - Headmaster: Hugh Patchett
1960s? - Headmaster: Ralph Sewell (ex-Mayor)

GOMERSAL

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists William Scales in charge of a boarding school at Field Head

HECKMONDWIKE

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists the Town School, Westgate. Thomas Dobson, master; Miss Mary Eileen Horner, mistress

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists the National School, High Street. John Hinchcliffe, master; Mrs Sarah Hinchcliffe, mistress

HIGHTOWN

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists the National School, Hightown - Jabez Greenwood, master.

12 Aug 1878 - Official opening of Hightown Board School by Mr J. Rhodes, chairman of the Board. The school was built from a design by Mr William Ellis, architect to the board and cost a little short of £5,000. The headmaster is Mr J.F. Jonstone and there are currently 356 children, boys and girls, on the register.

21 Jun 1907- Foundation stone for the new Sunday School at the United Methodist Free Church, Hightown was laid.

17 Jul 1954 - Official opening of R.M. Grylls by Alderman Hyman, Chairman of the West Riding Education Committee. First headmaster Bernard Wiley

LITTLETOWN

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists the Ladies' school, Littletown by the Misses Walker.

MILLBRIDGE

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists the National School, Millbridge - William Humphrey, master.
1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists boarding school, Healds Hall, Millbridge by Henry Roberson

ROBERTTOWN

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists the National School, Roberttown - Richard Smith, master; Mrs Ann Smith, mistress

SCHOLES

The "Old School"
1790 - Built on a small plot of land granted by Miss Currer and other freeholders at a cost of £56 2s 6d, most of which was paid for by public subscription. It stood on ground which is now known as Ash Court, off what is now Scholes Lane, not far below the Walker's Arms. The first schoolmaster was the Rev. Joseph Ogden, curate of Whitechapel and probably remained here until his death in 1815. The Rev. George Winter, also a curate at Whitechapel, succeeded him and then followed by the Rev. Benjamin Firth.

1847 - Scholes National school opened.
1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory - National School (for boys & girls) - Scholes, Henry Bates, master
1879 - Death of the school master Joseph Tempest. George Kershaw is appointed to replace him.

1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory - JAGGER, Mrs Hannah, day school, Scholes

1964 - Scholes “New School” opened.