The school was opened as the Salford Municipal Secondary School for Boys in 1904, located at the Salford Royal Technical Institute (RTI). In 1932 it became Salford Grammar School. Initially, the Principal of the RTI was also Headmaster of the school, but in 1909 it was decided that the school should detach from the RTI. A separate building for the school was opened in Leaf Square in July 1914, but the outbreak of World War One resulted in that building being requisitioned for use as a military hospital, and it was not re-occupied by the school until March 1920. In 1937 Salford Education Committee acquired the house and grounds of Claremont, formerly the private residence of Sir Percival Heywood. In March 1953 the construction of a new school on the Claremont site began, and the pupils moved from the Leaf Square site into the new building on Eccles Old Road on 12th January 1956. The new school was officially opened by His Worship the Mayor of Salford on the 21st March 1956. Demolition of the old school building commenced in 1964 and the new Salford College of Technology opened on the site in 1965. On 1st September 1969, Salford Grammar School and Salford Technical High School were merged to form Salford Grammar Technical School. In 1973, a system of Comprehensive education was adopted in Salford Schools and Salford Grammar Technical School and Pendleton High School for Girls were merged to form Buile Hill High School.
Includes report books, student admission registers, staff registers, visitors book, photographs, Headmaster's reports, prospectuses, programmes and historical notes.
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Contains references to individual teachers and pupils (including Old Boys), significant events, statistics, etc.
Contains information for individual students, including name, date of birth, date of admission, address and name of parent or guardian.
Provides information about staff who worked at the Salford Municipal Secondary School for Boys and Salford Grammar School.
Contains an individual entry for each member of staff, which includes their full name, date of birth, date of appointment, education, previous teaching posts held, subjects taught and salary details. Earliest appointment noted as being in 1896 (i.e. to the Royal Technical Institute) with subsequent appointments to 1945 and comments up to the 1950s. Dates given below refer to the year the person was appointed to and, if stated, left the school.
Principal of the Royal Technical Institute and Head of the Municipal Secondary School from December 1903. In 1909 it was decided that control of the secondary school should be separated from the RTI, whereupon he became Headmaster of the secondary school only, a position he held until 31 December 1913. Date of birth 11 March 1867.
Senior master of English from September 1913, appointed Headmaster on 1 March 1927. Date of birth 15 October 1881.
Date of birth 13 November 1864.
Date of birth 14 June 1871.
Year of birth 1863.
Year of birth 1866.
Date of birth 25 August 1858.
Date of birth 14 January 1873.
Date of birth 10 August 1868. See also SGS/3/1/66
Date of birth 29 September 1880.
Date of birth 27 September 1881.
Date of birth 11 May 1875.
Date of birth 6 November 1876.
Date of birth 23 November 1879.
Date of birth 7 May 1879.
Date of birth 2 October 1864.
Date of birth 14 November 1877.
Year of birth 1868.
Date of birth 20 August 1867.
Date of birth 1 November 1877.
Date of birth 1 November 1875.
Date of birth 31 July 1881.
Date of birth 4 October 1859.
Date of birth 26 October 1876. See also SGS/3/1/67.
Appointed Headmaster January 1914. Date of birth 9 September 1878.
Date of birth 6 September 1872.
Date of birth 2 August 1882.
Date of birth 27 July 1877.
Date of birth 18 January 1887.
Date of birth 18 September 1888.
Date of birth 2 December 1889.
Date of birth 11 March 1889.
Year of birth 1887.
Year of birth 1869.
Date of birth 6 May 1877.
Date of birth 3 November 1887.
Date of birth 4 February 1889.
Date of birth 24 December 1884.
Date of birth 14 January 1890.
Date of birth 16 September 1881.
Date of birth 23 January 1894.
Date of birth 23 July 1879.
Date of birth 24 October 1882.
Date of birth 12 November 1873.
Date of birth 15 April 1893.
Date of birth 12 July 1894.
Date of birth 28 August 1872.
Date of birth 12 February 1880.
Date of birth 26 December 1879.
Date of birth 24 July 1889.
Date of birth 29 June 1893.
Date of birth 7 September 1890.
Date of birth 10 June 1882.
Date of birth 27 April 1880.
Date of birth 28 July 1889.
Date of birth 26 December 1879.
Date of birth 15 January 1879.
Date of birth 14 August 1888.
Date of birth 1 February 1885.
Date of birth 10 December 1895.
Date of birth 9 August 1891.
Date of birth 23 January 1892.
Date of birth 30 December 1884.
Date of birth 24 July 1889.
Date of birth 26 November 1890.
Date of birth 10 August 1869. See also SGS/3/1/9
Date of birth 26 October 1867. See also SGS/3/1/24
Date of birth 25 June 1890.
Date of birth 31 March 1891.
Date of birth 2 November 1897.
Date of birth 26 March 1898.
Date of birth 1 August 1895.
Date of birth 13 November 1902.
Date of birth 23 December 1902.
Blank page - see SGS/3/1/70.
Date of birth 11 March 1903.
Date of birth 26 December 1903.
Date of birth 29 May 1905.
Date of birth 10 December 1909.
Date of birth 30 July 1913.
Date of birth 7 February 1937.
Date of birth 22 April 1909. See also SGS/3/1/83.
Date of birth 22 April 1909. See also SGS/3/1/82.
Date of birth 7 May 1916.
Date of birth 30 July 1913.
Date of birth 10 August 1914.
Date of birth 4 March 1914.
Date of birth 27 February 1906.
Date of birth 12 March 1902.
Appointed Headmaster March 1942. Date of birth 29 March 1904.
Date of birth 14 August 1905.
Date of birth 1 November 1918.
Date of birth 28 March 1905.
Date of birth 22 February 1921.
Date of birth 17 November 1905.
Date of birth 23 April 1904.
Date of birth 26 November 1911. Married on July 1945 - named changed to Ella Poppitt.
Date of birth 8 September 1890.
Date of birth 30 September 1903.
Date of birth 7 July 1920.
Virtual copy of SGS/3/1 although omitting the final few entries.
Contains the signatures of attendees at various events, such as speech days and prize evenings. Includes a number of ex-pupils, often specifying the dates they attended the school.
Opening page states 'This visitors book was presented to Alderman George Goulden F.P. Mayor of Salford to commemorate the opening of the school on 21st March 1956 and was the gift of the architects'.
Photograph album from school camp in 1913 and 15 photographs donated by former pupil James Openshaw.
Contains uncaptioned pictures of staff and students. Opening page contains the inscription 'with thanks for past tenderness and best wishes for the future from H B Knowles to W W Forrester, Christmas 1913'. Album also includes a cutting from The Reporter, dated August 30 1913, which contains a detailed account of the trip. It states that the teachers who participated included H B Knowles (Headmaster), S Duckworth (hon. Secretary), Mr Winfield (hon. treasurer), Mr Forrester, Mr Hurst, Mr Mackenzie, Mr Watkinson and Mr M Knowles, with Sergeant Moore being responsible for the kitchen arrangements.
Includes H Openshaw.
Includes H Openshaw.
Includes H Openshaw.
Includes Norman Grainger, Fred Hampson, Ron Poppitt, Frank Purcell and Bill McLoughln.
Includes James Openshaw and Mr Jack Thomas.
Includes James Openshaw.
Includes James Openshaw.
Includes James Openshaw.
Includes James Openshaw and Mr Cavanagh.
Includes James Openshaw and Mr Nutter.
Includes James Openshaw and Mr Seeley.
Includes James Openshaw and Mr Dunne.
Prior to a game against Broughton Park. Includes James Openshaw.
Includes James Openshaw, Mr Dunne and Mr Campbell.
Includes James Openshaw and Mr Dunne.
Contains information similar to that which is found in SGS/1. Includes draft copies, often annotated, some incomplete. No reports for 1946, 1955 or 1963.
Contains handwritten reports from individual pupils who undertook trips with the benefit of grants from the Trustees of the Ghosh Bequest. Often includes ephemera acquired by the pupils on their visits.
Includes programmes of events attended at the festival, postcards of Edinburgh, mementos of places visited, etc. some with accompanying notes written by Christopher Parfitt. One of the performances attended was Hamlet, featuring a youthful Richard Burton in the title role, who Parfitt notes in his report 'had a very beautiful voice'.
The report contains photographs and illustrations taken from publications, plus a number of loose programmes.
Report only.
Includes a pamphlet in arabic (possibly describing a school in the Sudan) and a leaflet issued by the Council of Christians and Jews. Accompanying letter to F.A.J. Rivett, Salford Director of Education, indicates that Alfred Siddall's address at this time was 13 John Dalton Street, Salford 3.
Report only.
The report contains photographs taken from publications.
Contain lists of staff and Governors, curriculum details and general rules and regulations.
Only two pages - apparently incomplete.
This is the only prospectus in the collection which includes photographs of the school.
Contain details of school prize winners, awards of scholarships and bursaries, examination successes, sports awards, old boys' successes, etc.
Bound volume.
Bound volume.
Various school programmes, including one produced to commemorate the opening of the new building in 1956.
Production of Gallows Glorious by Ronald Gow.
Performance of three plays - The Travelling Companion by Hans Anderson, The Rose and Crown by J B Priestley and The Bear by Anton Chekhov.
Sets of duplicated notes and plans prepared for Field Study Week in various years.
Printed school magazine, containing news, information about clubs and societies, lists of prize winners, photographs, etc.
Bound volume.
Bound volume.
Numbers 32, 34, 39 and 42 (a.k.a. volume 3 number 6) are missing. No issues were produced during World War Two - there was a gap of six years between numbers 36 and 37.
Bound volume.
Editorial in volume 6 number 6 (March 1973) states 'this edition of Salfordian could be the last of a long line...due to the impending reorganisation of education in the city'.
Includes various histories of the school.
Handwritten account of the visit of a party of 44 boys with the Headmaster, Mr E G Simm, and Mr R D Poppitt to Holland in August 1947.
Handwritten account, including photographs, maps and a list with the names, addresses and dates of birth of the 25 boys in the party.
Includes a history of the school 'since the interim inspection of 1934' with details of scholarships since 1943 and degrees and distinctions obtained by ex-pupils since 1950, plus a comprehensive list of current staff in order of appointment.
Reminiscences on the history of the school in the form of letters or notes, often annotated or marked, produced for Mr Simm when he was writing the history of the school. Includes letters from Leonard Wright, 12 Acacia Drive Salford; Emily Knowles, 113 Surrenden Road Brighton (wife of former Head Master H B Knowles); F G Altham, Robertson Road Buxton (former Headmaster).
Includes section on the new school building, reminiscences by old Salfordians and former members of staff, and photographs of the school Headmasters, a first form group in 1904 and a first form group in 1953.
'The Literary and Debating Society 1905 - 1965. Some notes and a few incomplete statistics.' Handwritten account, author unknown. Appendix includes list of officers and speaking competition winning houses.
'A history of Salfordian debating concluded and an account given of public speaking, debating and drama competitions.'
Editorial by S Williamson states 'This magazine is a new, and I hope annual venture. It aims to provide boys at all levels in the school with an opportunity to write good articles, stories and poems and to have them printed.'
Typescript, including photographs, presented to the school library by the author (possibly an ex-pupil).
Copies of the song 'forty years on', list of school rules, blank certificates and a cartoon by David Ghilchik.