Wigan Album
Woodfield School
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Photo: Barrie
Item #: 35568
What a great pic Barrie. I have no idea what I wore to Woodfield but I remember wearing a grey hat like the one your sister is wearing when I had to go to a boarding school in Buxton....not because my family were upper crust or wealthy but because of family circumstances.
I had no idea that Woodfield was previously a fee paying school. From what I have read it was at one time the prep school for Wigan Girls High School bought by the Education Authority due to a lack of space. It was altered in 1920 and closed briefly in 1940 due to the war. After the war it ceased to be part of the High School (and Grammar School) and became Woodfiel County Primary School. I was there from 1953 - 60 and have very fond memories of the school.
Notre Dame Convent on Standishgate also had fee paying school children from aged 5. Beside the pupils who passed scholarships.
I had no idea that Woodfield was previously a fee paying school. From what I have read it was at one time the prep school for Wigan Girls High School bought by the Education Authority due to a lack of space. It was altered in 1920 and closed briefly in 1940 due to the war. After the war it ceased to be part of the High School (and Grammar School) and became Woodfiel County Primary School. I was there from 1953 - 60 and have very fond memories of the school.
Both schools had similar uniforms. The High school uniform was predominantly brown and yellow and the Convent’s uniform was brown and blue if I remember.
When I began at Wigan Grammar School in 1943 ,although a Scholarship boy, the fees were £9 guineas a year
R A Butler's 1944 Education Act put an end to that when implemented in 1946,seeing the demise of the Preparatory Department and the departure of Miss McCartney