bagpuss29 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 after reading the threads about abbeydale grange school and the many people who went there i was wondering if any one had heard any of the stories that went with holt house (known as 6 form and typing lessons in there) i dont know if people were just pulling my leg about the stories they told me. the house was a single mothers house over 100-200 years ago when one night it caught fire and one of the mothers throw herself and her baby out and they have haunted it ever since, every so often there is a fire in the same place on the same night which carnt be explained what ever happened to the house i heard it had been burnt down which no expernation can any one put me right about the stories jane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallBuilder Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 The house was used as part of the sixth form for quite some time then it was used as an adult education centtre. Sadly it was then allowed to become derelict and was eventually pulled down and a new little group of posh houses now stands on the site. There were stories of a ghost which had something to do with a cupboard under the stairs but I can't remember details. The old grange building that was the main sixth form was another old house and that did burn down and the site is unrecognisable nowadays as all the prefabs and the gym have gone as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagpuss29 Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 i think i am thinking about the old grange building, across the road from the petrol station is a drive go up there and it is on the right hand side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallBuilder Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 That was the location of the old grange building, I think there is a picture of it on Friends Reunited taken in the 60's. I mostly remember it as the place where I used to upset other students by playing ELP on the record player in the common room. I lived down south for a few years and was suprised when on revisiting my old childhood haunts when I returned that not only had the house gone but all the rest of the sixth form as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert T Smith Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 i think i am thinking about the old grange building, across the road from the petrol station is a drive go up there and it is on the right hand side This thread is headed 'Holt House Abbetdale'. Abbeydale Grange School has not, or had not, anything to do with Holt House. In the 1950s Abbeydale Grange School was a very, good girls only school. Young woman educated there, did not look for a job, they were asked if they would consider taking the job. Holt House was in the 1960s a junior school I think it is now serves for respite care for families with handicaped children. (I may well be wrong). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagpuss29 Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 it is the old building the stories are about i have just put images in google. i dont know where i got the name holt house i have had that in my head for years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleboo Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 When I was at Abbeydale there were some strange things happened in the six form centre, it was a very old building and I never saw anything myself, but never felt comfortable in there whilst alone, it was strange really but quite creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallBuilder Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Abbeydale Grange school comprised Lower school on Hastings road Upper school by the playing fields off CarterKnowle road The sixth form which comprised the Grange [which burnt down] vehicle access off Abbeydale road. Several prefabs which had the science rooms and canteen and other classrooms. A brick built gym. Holt House that was a large old house where for a time they had music lessons. There was also a library built near Lower school. Holt House became derelict in the 80's after being use as an adult education centre, as I can remember clamberingr around in the placeThe vehicle access for this place was up a long drive that came up from the bottom of Bannerdale road. As you went up the drive if you looked to theleft there were some cottages where the caretaker of the infant school lived. These have been knocked down and is now a centre for handicapped kids called Rushey meadow i think. A few yards on and still looking up to the left and you'll see Holt House infant school a single storey long building probably built in the late 50's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceegee Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Photos of both houses (and their history) can be found on http://www.chrishobbs.com/abgs5.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damon Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 When I was at Holt House Infant School in the early seventies, we used to watch the Rushey Meadow place being built. If you carried on up the drive, you came to the actual Holt House itself, which at that time was indeed used by Abbeydale Grange comprehensive school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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