West Bridgford School
school in Nottinghamshire, UK
The West Bridgford School is a co-educational comprehensive school with academy status in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England.
History
Grammar school
The school used to be a grammar school and was then known as The West Bridgford County Secondary School. It was moved to the present buildings in 1938 and became The West Bridgford Grammar School in 1944. The school's original site was on Musters Road, which was occupied by the old Musters Medical Practice. In September 1938 the school moved to a newly constructed building adjoining Loughborough Road, which is now its main building.
The houses were Cavendish, Chaworth, Manvers, Pierrepont, Musters, and Byron. Professor Robert Peers, the former Principal of University College Nottingham, gave a talk during the speech day on Thursday 14 November 1946. The headteacher John William Holmes died on Saturday 2 July 1949, aged 59 at his home on Trevor Road; he had been headteacher since September 1933, and had been ill from December 1948. Previously, he had been head of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School at Atherstone, and was a former modern languages (MFL) teacher from Halifax. His funeral service was conducted by Reverend D. Campbell-Miller, head of Magnus Grammar School.
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