Just registered with the Sheffield Forum. Are there any ex pupils of All Saints C of E School (Pitsmoor) 1947 - 1953, and Grange Grammar School 1953 - 1958. Having left Sheffield in 1965, can anyone tell me what has happened to these schools.

All Saints on Sutherland Street was demolished, along with the church and the houses in the slum clearance in the very early 70s. Only a few houses remain ..everything else was flattened. My mum was at All Saints for a few months in the early 50s & so was my unclefor a while longer(I think) Name Goodwin.

A friend of mine was at Grange Grammar School at those times named Deidre, not sure whether it was called Hurlfield in those days though.
hazel

Just registered with the Sheffield Forum. Are there any ex pupils of All Saints C of E School (Pitsmoor) 1947 - 1953, and Grange Grammar School 1953 - 1958. Having left Sheffield in 1965, can anyone tell me what has happened to these schools.
I have been involved in transcribing the All Saints Junior school admission registers on the Sheffield Indexers site- on
http://sheff-indexers.thewholeshebang.org/
We can only go up to about 70 years ago so we finished about 1932. All my family - mum,dad, uncles etc went there between 1920 and 1932.

I was at Grange grammar school till about 57/58.
When I first went it was Hurlfield and changed it's name when the other Hurlfield was built.
It's now Abbeydale Grange 6th form College I think.

Do you know what the original school is used for now? I think one of the buildings was called Holt House and I seem to remember that it was a lovely old building, but cold!

There are now some exclusive, private houses built on the land on Holt House Grove.

There are now some exclusive, private houses built on the land on Holt House Grove.

That's so sad. What about Grange House?

Just registered with the Sheffield Forum. Are there any ex pupils of All Saints C of E School (Pitsmoor) 1947 - 1953, and Grange Grammar School 1953 - 1958. Having left Sheffield in 1965, can anyone tell me what has happened to these schools.

I went to Grange Grammar School for Girls from 1961 to 1968. As I left, the school finished as Grange Grammar and amalgamated with Abbeydale Girls and Abbeydale Boys schools to become Abbeydale Grange School, falling in line with the national policy of comprehensive education.

While I was there the school was two old houses, Grange House and Holt House set in beautiful grounds a few hundred yards apart with prefabricated and brick buildings in between. The Hall/gymnasium was the brick building, completely detached from any other building meaning that on wet days school assembly was cancelled and prayers were held in the classrooms. The prefab buildings housed the dining hall, first year classrooms, art block, science labs, cookery and needlework rooms.
Second and third years plus the lower sixth had their classrooms in Grange House and fourth and fifth years plus the upper sixth had rooms in Holt House. Also in Holt House was the music room and another art room.
Just outside the entrance to Grange House was "The Yew Tree". Any girl who went to Grange should remember the yew tree, it was where you met up with friends at the end of the day or at any other time in between lessons!

Both of the old house had big sweeping staircases and a set of narrow stairs, presumably the old servants stairs. To avoid accidents and congestion the rule was always "Up the back stairs - Down the main stairs". Woe betide any girl caught going the wrong way up or down a flight of stairs! I always wanted to slide down the bannister of the stairs in Holt House, but never got the courage. To slide down the bannisters in Grange would have been suicide as the headmistresses office was at the foot of these!

Staff (I recall)
Head Mistress - Miss Helen Rawlings
Music - Miss Jackie Williams
French - Miss Betty Rigby
French - Miss Longmuir
English - Miss Ward
English - Miss Ruff
Maths - Mrs Reynolds
Maths - Mrs Evison
Geography - Miss Elspeth Fyfe
Geography - Mrs Perry
History - Mrs Whitby
History - Miss Sheila Truswell
Domestic Science - Miss Secker
Science - Mrs Hall
Science - Miss Jenny Henderson
German - Miss Harvatt
Art - Mrs Senior
PE - Mrs Greenwood
PE - Mrs Robertson

As I understand it now, Holt House has been pulled down (shame!) and new residential houses built. I wonder what happened to the ghost that reportedly walked through Holt House????

I went to Grange in 1958 for 3 months (moved to Bakewell) and again from 1960 to 1963 I recognise most of the names. Didn`t Miss Ward`s father marry another teacher so she ended up with a stepmother much younger than herself? Miss Fyfe had short red hair and was always immaculately made up. Was there a Miss Warrilow, I thought she took French, but memory could be letting me down. I do remember on my last day turning at the bottom of the drive and throwing my beret back toward the school

You're right - Miss Warrilow was still there in 1968 as I recall and taught French. I've also remembered Mrs Harrison - Science, Mrs Gilbert - Latin. With regard to Miss Ward, I believe there was something like that as there was Miss Ward and Mrs Ward and they both lived in the same house at Dore, but as to the exact realtionships I couldn't be sure.

I loved our uniform because in 1961 when I went there, we were about the only girls grammar school in the city that didn't have to wear gymslips, always ordinary skirts and blouses!

Those dammed berets!!! Did anyone ever like wearing them? Why did we have them? They served no purpose other than to get me detention for not wearing it. Still, they weren't boaters or panamas and during the 60's with the beehive hairstyles they could be folded up and hairgripped to the back of the head, hidden behind the backcombing!

Now living in Australia, it is very cheering to read about my old school. I was there from '56 till '63. Left for Newcastle & never returned. Mrs Ward was the stepmother and Miss Ward was a great English teacher. My 2 daughters went to a similiar school here, but we had to pay enormous fees whilst my education was free. So much for progress.I have very fond memories and would love to hear from other old girls- Olga Tyreman Barbara Saunders Susan Cowan Glenise Bedford Joyce Boyd to name a few

:)I went to Grange Grammar School for Girls from 1961 to 1968. As I left, the school finished as Grange Grammar and amalgamated with Abbeydale Girls and Abbeydale Boys schools to become Abbeydale Grange School, falling in line with the national policy of comprehensive education.

While I was there the school was two old houses, Grange House and Holt House set in beautiful grounds a few hundred yards apart with prefabricated and brick buildings in between. The Hall/gymnasium was the brick building, completely detached from any other building meaning that on wet days school assembly was cancelled and prayers were held in the classrooms. The prefab buildings housed the dining hall, first year classrooms, art block, science labs, cookery and needlework rooms.
Second and third years plus the lower sixth had their classrooms in Grange House and fourth and fifth years plus the upper sixth had rooms in Holt House. Also in Holt House was the music room and another art room.
Just outside the entrance to Grange House was "The Yew Tree". Any girl who went to Grange should remember the yew tree, it was where you met up with friends at the end of the day or at any other time in between lessons!

Both of the old house had big sweeping staircases and a set of narrow stairs, presumably the old servants stairs. To avoid accidents and congestion the rule was always "Up the back stairs - Down the main stairs". Woe betide any girl caught going the wrong way up or down a flight of stairs! I always wanted to slide down the bannister of the stairs in Holt House, but never got the courage. To slide down the bannisters in Grange would have been suicide as the headmistresses office was at the foot of these!

Staff (I recall)
Head Mistress - Miss Helen Rawlings
Music - Miss Jackie Williams
French - Miss Betty Rigby
French - Miss Longmuir
English - Miss Ward
English - Miss Ruff
Maths - Mrs Reynolds
Maths - Mrs Evison
Geography - Miss Elspeth Fyfe
Geography - Mrs Perry
History - Mrs Whitby
History - Miss Sheila Truswell
Domestic Science - Miss Secker
Science - Mrs Hall
Science - Miss Jenny Henderson
German - Miss Harvatt
Art - Mrs Senior
PE - Mrs Greenwood
PE - Mrs Robertson

As I understand it now, Holt House has been pulled down (shame!) and new residential houses built. I wonder what happened to the ghost that reportedly walked through Holt House????
I'm surprised some of thosr teachers were still there in'68. Not many men on the staff!!! Mrs Perry must have frightened them off as she did us??
What a pity Holt House was destroyed as I spent many an hour gazing out of windows thinking of distant places as Mrs Perry droned on.Sheila Truswell did inspire me with a lifelong love of history and the needfor a visit to Europe from the antipodes each year.

I was there just before you Sampson, left in 1961 just as you were starting. I remember most of the teachers you mention plus Miss Pogson who taught history, Miss Holt (PE) and Mrs Luspay (?spelling) who taught German. Miss Nelson taught Science and she it was who married Miss Ward's father. Miss Truswell had a knack for inspiring pupils - she also inspired a lifelong love of history in me. She introduced me while she was on library duty one day to Georgette Heyer's Regency novels which I've loved ever since. No-one's mentioned the library, that black wooden building in the gardens below the Grange.
And the dreaded berets, surely no-one ever looked good in them?