Can you help us? We are stuck with the following and any help would be wonderful.

We currently have three photographs we would like help with.

Castle Hills School Photograph

Baines Bros

Lealholm School

Holy Trinity School Dance classes - 1944

Lea Road School

A short history of Lealholm School

The School which was eventually to become "Lealholm" started its life in September 1889. Miss Marion Hill Taylor was the daughter of Rev G.T. Taylor - a Wesleyan minister at the Bridge Road Chapel. She was born in Northampton. She took over the School at 141 Bridge Street formerly run by Mrs Elizabeth Wholey.

The subjects on offer to pupils were Religious Knowledge - English - Drawing (Freehand and Model) - Needlework - Class Singing and Drilling. Extra subjects were Music - Solo Singing - French - German - Greek - Drawing (Crayon) and Painting.

By December 1894 Miss Taylor moves from 141 Bridge Street to 136 and 138 Bridge Street. Today we know the building as the United Services Club and the Dentist practice of Bolsover, Clark. To help finance the move, Miss Taylor obtains £600 from Misses Ethel and Kate Stewart Oldman. They were daughters of a local solicitor T.H. Oldman and resided at Summer Hill.

In March 1904 after Official Inspection, Lealholm was recognised as a Secondary School by the Board of Education.

The Garden Fete held in June 1917 contained a drill display by the girls trained by Col Sargent McGowan. He held this position at Lealholm from 1892. The funds were given to the British Red Cross and the work of the Y.M.C.A

The final chapter of Lealholm School was held in the Council Chamber on the occasion of a presentation to Miss Taylor.

Past and present scholars, parents, and friends attended.

Miss Taylor died at the home of her sister in Upton on Severn in 1949.

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